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
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. So choose your version for features, hardware, and support, not for FPS. Reinstalling your whole OS to chase frames is a lot of work for a difference you will not reliably measure.
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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