Visual effects → best performance
Also searched as: visual effects · animations off · performance options
What it does
Disables Windows UI animations and effects.
The honest verdict
Graded placebo. Snappier-feeling DESKTOP, not more FPS in games — your game doesn't use the desktop compositor's animations. Fine to do for taste; don't expect frames.
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 full graded entry
This entry ships inside the app, cross-linked to every related verdict in the graded book. 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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