PC Game Optimization Guides: FPS, Input Lag and Stutter Fixes for 22 Games

PC Game Optimization Guides: FPS, Input Lag and Stutter Fixes for 22 Games

RIP Tweaks
Oct 2, 20260 views

Every game has its own version of the same problem. The frame counter says one thing, the game feels like another, and the advice online is a mix of settings that matter, settings that did something five years ago, and settings that never did anything at all.

These guides take one game at a time and walk the whole chain: the in-game settings worth changing, what that game's anti-cheat actually cares about, Windows, your GPU driver, your connection, and how to measure whether a change helped. They are written to be useful whether or not you ever use RIP Tweaks, and each one says plainly what the app does for that game and what it does not.

How every guide is built

  • A 60-second fix at the top, for when you are about to queue.
  • Why the game feels bad even when the average frame rate looks fine. Usually the answer is the 1% lows and the input chain, not the average.
  • A settings table with the options that change frame time or latency in that game, and the reason for each.
  • Anti-cheat, honestly. What the game's protection looks for, and why nobody can promise any tool is invisible to it.
  • Windows, the GPU driver and the network, which is where most of the stubborn cases live.
  • How to measure it, so you know a change worked instead of hoping it did.

Tactical shooters

Battle royale and arena shooters

MOBA and strategy

Sports and racing

Survival and extraction

Sandbox and creative

Action, RPG and open world

What RIP Tweaks does for games

The Games page in RIP Tweaks finds what you have installed through Steam, the Epic Games Launcher, the Riot Client, Ubisoft Connect, the EA app and the Xbox app, plus Minecraft and Roblox. Anything else can be added with Add Game. Clicking a game opens a launch panel with two modes: Balanced, which is free, and Performance, which is part of Premium. The settings in that panel apply to that one game's program, not to your whole PC, and nothing in it changes the game's own settings or files.

Alongside it, RIP Mode is a temporary boost for the session: it can close background apps, clear cached memory and stop the desktop shell while you play, and puts everything back when you stop. The details are in the Games page and per game presets and RIP Mode explained.

Start with the general guides

Most of what slows a game down is not specific to that game. If your problem shows up everywhere, these come first:

Frequently asked questions

Which games does RIP Tweaks support?

It finds games installed through Steam, Epic, Riot, Ubisoft, EA and Xbox, plus Minecraft and Roblox, and any other game can be added by pointing Add Game at its program file. The system wide tweaks apply to every game whether or not it is in the list.

Will a game preset change my in-game settings?

No. It does not change settings inside the game and does not touch game files. Your in-game options are still yours to set, which is why every guide here has its own settings table.

Can optimizing my PC get me banned?

Changing Windows and driver settings is ordinary system configuration. Anti-cheat systems look for software that reads or changes a game's memory or injects into it, and RIP Tweaks does neither. Nobody can honestly promise a tool is invisible to every anti-cheat, so we do not. The full answer is in is RIP Tweaks safe.

My game is not on this list. What now?

Start with the general guides above: the causes are the same in almost every game. More game guides are on the way.