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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

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. There IS an honest reason some people disable it: because it does not fully reset the system, a flaky driver or device state can carry across reboots, so turning it off (or doing a full 'Restart' instead of 'Shut down') is a real troubleshooting step. Do it to get a truly clean boot, not for frames.

How Compy treats 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 Compy Blackbook holds 174 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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