Leave Windows 11 Game Mode enabled, but do not expect your frame rates to change much. Its real value is preventing Windows Update from installing drivers or throwing restart prompts at you mid-m
Hang detected on GameThread is a watchdog firing, not a description of what broke. Unreal Engine runs a heartbeat check on its main threads. When the game thread fails to report in for a set p
The driver at the top of LatencyMon's list is frequently not the driver causing your problem. ntoskrnl.exe and Wdf01000.sys dominate the results on most systems, and both are frameworks that
When the HDR toggle is greyed out or the calibration app refuses to run, the cause is nearly always a signal-path limit rather than a Windows bug. Windows only offers HDR when the display tells
Kernel-Power Event 41 does not tell you why your PC died. It only tells you that it died without warning Windows first. Windows writes this entry on the next boot, after the fact, whenever the
**Audio that crackles, pops, or stutters specifically when a game is running is almost never a failing headset. It is a driver holding onto the CPU for too long, starving the audio buffer of the data
