Basic. Core performance & latency.
Everything in Free, plus the latency and throughput core: Ultimate Performance power plan, MMCSS scheduling, foreground priority, NIC power-saving off, SSD TRIM, Fortnite tuning, and Epic launcher de-autostart.
Core performance & latency. These are the categories Basic turns on — the changes a competitive player would make by hand, applied correctly and reversibly.
Power & scheduling
Ultimate Performance, no core parking, MMCSS Games class, foreground-favoring priority.
Input
Mouse acceleration off and a best-performance visual profile — a 1:1 cursor and fewer compositor frames.
Network
NIC power-saving off (EEE / Green / Flow), RSS on, RSC trimmed — fewer idle-down jitter spikes.
Storage & game
SSD TRIM verified, NTFS last-access off, Fortnite process priority High, Epic launcher de-autostarted.
The latency & throughput layer.
- Ultimate Performance plan + disable ALL power savingSafe
Activates Ultimate Performance, then forces processor 100% min/max, aggressive boost, no core parking, PCIe ASPM off, and no disk/sleep/USB power-down.
powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-…
- MMCSS 'Games' task profileSafe
Raises the games multimedia scheduling class.
…\SystemProfile\Tasks\Games\GPU Priority = 8
- System responsiveness, foreground priority, visuals, mouseSafereboot
SystemResponsiveness=10 (under 10 clamps to 20), foreground-favoring priority, best-performance visuals, mouse acceleration OFF.
SystemProfile\SystemResponsiveness = 10
- NIC power-saving OFF (EEE/Green/Flow), RSS on, RSC offSafe
Stops the network card idling-down (jitter), disables Energy-Efficient/Green Ethernet + Flow Control (only if the driver exposes them), and trims receive-coalescing latency.
Disable-NetAdapterPowerManagement
- No P2P update sharing + faster NTFS accessSafe
Delivery Optimization set to no peer sharing, and disables NTFS last-access timestamp writes.
DODownloadMode = 0
- Ensure SSD TRIM is enabledSafe
Verifies/enables NTFS TRIM so the SSD stays fast.
fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0
- Fortnite tuning (auto-detected)Safe
Sets Fortnite process priority to High (pre-staged even if not installed).
IFEO PerfOptions\CpuPriorityClass = 3
- Stop Epic Games Launcher auto-startSafe
Removes the Epic launcher from startup so it isn't idling in the background.
Run\EpicGamesLauncher removed (if present)
:: Duplicate the hidden Ultimate Performance scheme and make it active powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61 powercfg /setactive SCHEME_CURRENT :: Processor: pin minimum AND maximum to 100% (no down-clock under load swings) powercfg /setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR PROCTHROTTLEMIN 100 powercfg /setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR PROCTHROTTLEMAX 100 :: Core parking off · PCIe ASPM off · no disk/USB/sleep power-down powercfg /setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR CPMINCORES 100 powercfg /setactive SCHEME_CURRENT
The plan is duplicated from the hidden Ultimate Performance scheme, then every saving knob is forced off: processor min/max pinned to 100%, core parking disabled, PCIe ASPM off, no disk or USB power-down. Revert restores your previous plan untouched.
Inherited from Free (4)
- Game Mode on + Game DVR / background recording off
- Game Bar background capture fully off
- Clear temp files
- Snappier menus & instant startup apps
Everything Free does runs first, every time — the restore point, Game Mode, capture off, snappy menus and the temp clear.
- Ultimate Performance, no core parking
- Mouse acceleration off
- NIC jitter killers (EEE/Green/Flow)
- Auto Fortnite competitive config
Players who want the real FPS + input-latency wins without touching anything experimental.
Where Basic stops, and BIOS begins
Basic does the software side properly. It can't do the two things that usually matter most: enabling your RAM's rated speed (DOCP / EXPO) and a current GPU driver. A kit rated for 3200 MT/s often boots at 2133 MT/s until you flip the profile in BIOS. That gap is real FPS, and no script should touch your BIOS for you. Pro's Diagnostics flags it; for the walk-through see the BIOS & RAM guide.