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
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. The downside is real: these tools delete entries by guesswork, and a wrong delete can break an app, a driver, or Windows itself — sometimes days later, once you have forgotten you ran it. That is why this is graded risky, not just placebo: no frames to gain, and a genuine chance of a mess to clean up. If something specific is broken, fix THAT; do not let a tool sweep the whole registry hoping for speed.
How Compy treats it
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 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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