HAGS (Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling)
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What it means
A Windows setting that hands some scheduling work from the operating system to the graphics card itself. It can shave a little input latency and is required for some frame-generation features.
More detail
It's a real setting with a real effect, but the effect goes both ways — it helps on many modern GPUs and occasionally makes a specific game worse. It needs a reboot to switch. …
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