Running games as administrator for FPS
Also searched as: run as admin · run as administrator · admin mode game · launch game elevated
What it does
Launching a game with 'Run as administrator' expecting Windows to give it more CPU or GPU.
The honest verdict
Administrator rights change what a program is ALLOWED to touch, not how fast it runs — an elevated game gets the same cores, the same scheduling, the same GPU time as a normal one, so there's no frame to gain. It's a legitimate troubleshooting step for a specific failure (a launcher that can't write its own folder, an anti-cheat driver that needs an elevated install) — use it to fix THAT, then go back. Leaving it on permanently hands every mod, overlay, and script the game loads the keys to your whole system, for a gain of exactly nothing.
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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