Everyone likes to enjoy their favorite titles as smoothly as possible , within the possibilities of the team. Obviously, we cannot ask a PC for more resources than it offers us without spending money improving the components. Fortunately, what we can do is limit the operation of certain applications to allocate the greatest amount of resources to the main activity of the Windows computer.
Depending on the specifications of the equipment and the requirements of each game, the amount of resources that we may need at any given time may vary. If your games are jerky , take a long time to load, hang for several seconds with no keyboard or mouse response, you should try the tips below.
Check for Windows updates
Although it is true that Microsoft has improved in recent years the management and installation of updates, analyzing the hours of less activity on the computer to invite us to download and install the updates, depending on their importance for the security of the computer, it is possible Skip that schedule.
If it’s a small update, we won’t notice. But, if it’s a major update, Windows will prioritize bandwidth to download the installation. If the title we are playing works only through the internet, the game will start problems with the internet connection long before we realize the problem.
The solution to this problem is to manually stop the download of updates and resume them when we do not plan to use the computer, at least to perform tasks that require many resources.
Remove background apps
Before demanding maximum power from a computer, whether to play games or edit videos (the tasks that consume the most resources), we must prepare the way so that we do not find any stone along the way, a stone that can hinder our work. In addition to closing each and every one of the applications that we have open, we must disable the operation of all applications in the background.
By disabling all background apps, we make sure that the computer is allocating all resources to the app that we have open in the foreground. To disable the update of applications in the background, we must access the Windows configuration options.
Next, click on Privacy, and in the left column, click on Background apps . If we turn off the switch Allow apps to run in the background, the computer will stop updating them until we turn the switch back on.
disable your antivirus
Windows Defender has become the best antivirus for Windows on its own merits. Microsoft’s antivirus integrates seamlessly with the system. In fact, it integrates so well that it doesn’t affect your computer’s performance at all, except when you’re updating the database.
However, all third-party antivirus applications fail to integrate (for obvious reasons) into the system’s operation and always, to a greater or lesser extent, end up affecting the computer’s resource consumption , especially when they are scanning the computer for malicious files.
If you use a third-party antivirus, you should temporarily stop its operation and thus prevent it from consuming unnecessary resources that are essential for the system to offer us the best user experience.