Switching between Windows 11 and 10 for FPS
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What it does
Switching from Windows 11 to 10 (or back) expecting a meaningful frame-rate change.
The honest verdict
Graded placebo. For frame rate the two are close to a wash today — early Windows 11 had a few gaming regressions, but those were patched, and any difference now is small enough to vanish in normal run-to-run variation. There ARE real reasons to prefer one: Windows 11 schedules work better on newer hybrid CPUs (the performance/efficiency-core chips) and adds Auto HDR and DirectStorage, while some people just prefer 10's layout — and Windows 10 is heading out of support, which matters more for security than for 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
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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