Free. A taste of FrameForge.
Four universally-safe, high-value tweaks that every PC should have. Makes a System Restore point, then flips Game Mode on, kills background capture, snappies up the UI, and clears temp files.
Four tweaks. All new — nothing below to inherit.
Free is the bottom rung of the ladder, so everything here is introduced at this tier. Each one is on by default and reversible, and none of them carries a downside for gaming.
- Game Mode on + Game DVR / background recording offSafe
Prioritizes the foreground game and kills background capture overhead.
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\GameBar\AutoGameModeEnabled = 1
- Game Bar background capture fully offSafe
Disables AppCapture and historical (background) recording.
HKCU\…\GameDVR\AppCaptureEnabled = 0
- Clear temp filesSafe
Deletes %TEMP% and C:\Windows\Temp (in-use files are skipped).
del %TEMP%\*
- Snappier menus & instant startup appsSafe
MenuShowDelay=0 and removes the artificial startup-app delay.
Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay = 0
@echo off :: FrameForge-Free.bat · 4 safe tweaks, ~10 seconds :: Run as admin. Undo via System Restore (rstrui.exe). title FrameForge Free :: [1/4] Snapshot first — a restore point before any change powershell -Command "Checkpoint-Computer -Description 'FrameForge Free' -RestorePointType MODIFY_SETTINGS" :: [2/4] Game Mode on · Game DVR / background capture off reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\GameBar" /v AutoGameModeEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg add "HKCU\System\GameConfigStore" /v GameDVR_Enabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f :: [3/4] Instant menus + no startup-app delay reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v MenuShowDelay /t REG_SZ /d 0 /f :: [4/4] Clear temp (in-use files skipped; Prefetch untouched) del /q /s "%TEMP%\*" >nul 2>&1 del /q /s "%SystemRoot%\Temp\*" >nul 2>&1 echo Done. 4 tweaks applied. pause
Undo is built into Windows
The Free tier doesn't write a Revert script — it doesn't need one. Because it opens with a System Restore point, you roll the whole thing back from rstrui.exe if you ever want to. The .exe tiers add a one-click Revert.bat on top of that.
- Auto System Restore point first
- Game Mode on, Game DVR off
- Instant menus + startup apps
- Temp file cleanup
Anyone who wants a quick, zero-risk taste before committing.
Step up to Basic.
Free is the dry run. Basic adds the eight tweaks that actually move frametimes and input latency — Ultimate Performance, MMCSS, NIC power-saving off, the Fortnite config — for 12 total.