Disabling Fast Startup for FPS
Also searched as: fast startup · disable fast startup fps · hiberboot · fast boot fps · turn off fast startup
What it does
Turning off Windows 'Fast Startup' (hybrid shutdown) expecting smoother or faster games.
The honest verdict
Graded placebo. Fast Startup makes your PC boot quicker by saving part of Windows to disk on shutdown instead of fully closing it. That is a boot-time feature — it does nothing to how many frames a game draws once you are in it. …
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The full graded entry
The rest of this write-up — the specifics behind the grade — ships inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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