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Have played for ~5 days. At times my FPS was frustrating but was buried so deep in staying alive that I only figured out the FPS counter today.

I assumed it was something like 80/90 but I was casually playing around 40 fps with dips into the 20's.

So half the day today I've been scouring reddit, forums and all the advice was the same: Higher settings are actually better. Did all of that and only saw a ~15 increase at best and 5 to 10 on average. Did all of the properties, DPI scaling disable, Run as admin, config nvidea to force it to use more power, have more preference etc etc. Now that got me about 5 to 10 FPS further, with a 5% load increase from my GPU which was practically idling at ~32% usage to about ~37% usage

My CPU has 12 cores/threads, and number 3 was constantly at around 90% load, which I assumed to be my bottleneck and I was about to plan to get a newer CPU, doesn't hurt to upgrade anyway from a gen 5 to something better but then one of the dudes at the benchmarkers forum told me to disable "Windows Game Mode" if I had not already.

I work in IT and I do not even know this existed in windows, I think it's a new thing in windows 10.

I disabled and instantly went to 80-90 FPS with CPU loads reduced drastically with individual cores/threads rarely getting over 60-70% load and my GPU was finally going into the 80-90%'s..

Apparently windows game mode supposedly optimizes settings for games but if games have a weird code base it might infact do the very opposite according to this benchmarking guy.

So if you were like me in the same boat where all the regular advice did not work out perhaps try this setting.