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Running a registry cleaner for FPS

Also searched as: registry cleaner · clean registry fps · ccleaner registry · registry optimizer · fix registry gaming

What it does

Using a 'registry cleaner' / 'registry optimizer' tool that promises faster games by deleting old registry entries.

The honest verdict

Graded risky. The Windows registry is a settings database, not a performance bottleneck — a few thousand stale entries cost you nothing measurable, and no game reads them while it is drawing frames. So the upside is zero. …

It's on Compy's refuse list. Compy will never apply this tweak — and if a guide already talked you into it, reversibility is the whole point of the app.

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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