How to Boost Your PC's Performance for Gaming
With PC gaming constantly improving, you may find your game play becoming slower, less fluid, or even glitchy as time goes on. However, there are a few simple and effective ways to boost your computer's speed and performance for gaming. This how-to will go over a variety of methods from cleaning up old files to upgrading your hardware in a few easy to follow steps. Method 1 Identify your graphics card. It is important to know what kind you have before moving forward.[1] Image titled Boost Your PC's Performance for Gaming Enter "Device Manager." Type this without the quotation marks into the search menu. The search may produce multiple results. Click the Device Manager. This will prompt the Device Manager window to open. Go to Display Adapters. Expand the category by clicking the arrow to the left of it once. This will display the make and model of your graphics card.[2] In most machines you will see both Intel and NVIDIA hardware....