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dont post nothing yet, wait till your eggs are hatched first. just a post in News like "Nvidia has finally acknowledged the DPC issue with their drivers" and an official link.
 
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Hellbovine test this, its stable here with no visible problems.
grab mbk1969s PowerSettingsExplorer ,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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havnt checked(because im ignoring it) if any of that affects nvidia dpc latency.
getting a mixed bag of system latency results because im focussing solely on the audio, one of the frequently used bcd settings seems to worsen system latency, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesnt, but my audio is solid :)
 
forgot, been testing using Task Manager as the shell and running(then closing) Explorer as and when needed, bit of a faff around to be honest when 7 is rock solid with explorer as the shell. handy if you only want to run a DAW or media player like foobar etc.
 
Sorry if this has been asked , but it wasn't clear unless I missed something, can this be use be all editions? Specifically Pro and Enterprise?
 
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videobruce said:
Sorry if this has been asked , but it wasen't clear unless I missed something, can this be use ob all editions? Specifically Pro and Enterprise?
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for win 10 yes. post #1 "This guide walks users through the entire process of creating an optimized Windows 10 install, designed for maximum performance. "

NOT hard to miss an opening sentance
 
videobruce said:
Sorry if this has been asked , but it wasen't clear unless I missed something, can this be use ob all editions? Specifically Pro and Enterprise?
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This guide was designed using Home edition, which is a common edition among consumers, but the most difficult to work with because it isn't as easy to customize things compared to the others, since they have more policy-related options available and/or have less features, such as LTSC.

Everything that works on Home will work on other editions, however, the reverse is not true. If I had used Pro/Enterprise/LTSC as a base, a lot of tweaks that work on those will not work on Home, meaning all the Home users wouldn't have as good of an experience using the guide if I did that.

Someone could argue semantics with what I said since I'm trying to summarize, but everything here is still accurate overall, and I like working with Home edition for these kinds of reasons, because then this guide can help the most amount of people. Plus, it forces me to learn more about what's going on under the hood, since I can't always use the easy solutions provided by Microsoft for IT people.

Edit: I modified the intro of the guide to make the edition stuff more clear (Home/Pro/Etcetera) as well as clarifying W10 vs W11 since a lot of people want to use the guide on W11 and ask about that. Lastly, I also added information about Rufus, since it's needed for downloading different versions and editions of Windows because Microsoft makes things difficult in how they provide ISO downloads to the public.
 
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I don't understand why. SPP service defaults to Automatic (delayed). There's a midnight scheduled task, but it's more of a "keep alive" to guarantee SPP is running least once every 24 hrs to allow daily re-authentication.
 
garlin said:
SPP service defaults to Automatic (delayed). There's a midnight scheduled task,
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On my w7 eoes test install the task is disabled and i cannot enable it although i can run it.
scheduled tasks(needs event log) services are left at default.
 
hola hellbovine , se puede activar de nuevo el firewall? valorant game no me deja jugar porque esta desactivado y el anticheat me marca error por lo mismo
 
vore82 said:
hola hellbovine , se puede activar de nuevo el firewall? valorant game no me deja jugar porque esta desactivado y el anticheat me marca error por lo mismo
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TRANSLATED -

Hello Hellbovine , can the firewall be enabled again? Valorant Game does not let me play because it is disabled and the anticheat marks me error for the same reason
 
vore82 said:
Hello Hellbovine , can the firewall be enabled again? Valorant Game does not let me play because it is disabled and the anticheat marks me error for the same reason
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I highly doubt having the firewall disabled would prevent any game or anti-cheat software from working, the opposite has always been true (enabling firewalls/antivirus cause problems for gamers). This has to be related to something else. Valorant's own support page tells people to add an exception for the game to the firewall too, which is effectively turning the firewall off for the game:
https://support-valorant.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048522893

If you want to enable the firewall though, it's really easy, just find these 3 policies in Regedit and delete them:
; Start > Windows Security > Firewall & network protection > Domain network > Microsoft Defender Firewall > Disabled
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile]
"EnableFirewall"=dword:00000000

; Start > Windows Security > Firewall & network protection > Private network > Microsoft Defender Firewall > Disabled
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\PrivateProfile]
"EnableFirewall"=dword:00000000

; Start > Windows Security > Firewall & network protection > Public network > Microsoft Defender Firewall > Disabled
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\PublicProfile]
"EnableFirewall"=dword:00000000

Note: after this is done, go into the Security Center and toggle the firewalls back on, then reboot and you're done.

I'd still be extremely skeptical if this was the solution though, especially because Googling it doesn't show up with this problem. What's the exact error message that appears?

Edit: I bet you probably ran into this error code (VAN9002) which is related to Control Flow Guard:
https://support-valorant.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406555340179
 
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Ultimate
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Ultimate is not really a power plan, it's what's called an "overlay" and it actually does the following:
- Pulls the settings from the High performance plan to use when your computer is on AC power (plugged in)
- Pulls the settings from the Balanced plan to use when your computer is on DC power (battery)
- Changes the hard drive timeout from 20 to 0, so the disks don't get turned off due to inactivity

The Ultimate "plan" is overhyped in the media and that has created misinformation. To clarify some things, the Ultimate plan uses Balanced for DC, which means it has less performance while on battery than the High performance plan on battery. The Ultimate plan does nothing extra whatsoever, contrary to popular belief, except to also turn the hard drive timeout off compared to the High performance plan by itself.

There is also no way to directly edit the Ultimate overlay because it pulls settings from other plans, so you have to modify the Balanced and High performance plans in order to modify the Ultimate plan. It makes more sense for people to choose 1 plan and then edit that plan's default settings, instead of trying to work with 3 plans at once.

I chose the High performance plan as my base, and then I modify it to have even higher performing default settings. In effect, my setup here is better in performance than Ultimate, High, and the unofficial "Bitsum" power plans, all combined. Bitsum is also misleading because it only changes 3 keys on newer versions of W10, so that too is overhyped.
 
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Hellbovine said:
No worries, just wanted to clarify before I replied so I didn't talk about the wrong thing.

Ultimate is not really a power plan, it's what's called an "overlay" and what it actually does is the following:
- Pulls the default settings from the High performance plan to use when your computer is on AC power
- Pulls the default settings from the Balanced plan to use when your computer is on DC power
- Changes the hard drive timeout from 20 to 0, so the disks don't get turned off due to inactivity

The Ultimate "plan" is extremely overhyped in the media and it's created a lot of misinformation because of that. It's clear to me that none of the websites ever researched or tested it because all they did was regurgitate Microsoft's statements about latency, which was also extremely misleading compared to what it truly does.

Because the Ultimate plan uses Balanced for DC, it has less performance while on battery than the High performance plan. There is also no way to directly edit the Ultimate overlay because it pulls settings from other plans, so you have to modify the Balanced/High plans in order to modify the Ultimate plan (or modify the personality to use High performance for DC). It makes much more sense for people using NTLite to instead pick 1 plan and then edit that plan's defaults, instead of trying to essentially work with 3 plans at once.

I chose the High performance plan as my base and then I modify it to have even higher performing default settings. In effect, my setup here is better in performance than High/Ultimate and even the popular "Bitsum" power plan, all combined. Bitsum is also misleading, because it only changes 3 keys (on newer versions of W10) so that too is overhyped, as are a lot of core parking tools and s
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Hellbovine said:
I personally feel like W10 is better for performance-focused individuals, and I've listed my reasonings for this in all sorts of other posts/threads, including the intro to this guide. The Windows Statistics thread is worth checking out since it discusses some of those aspects (link).
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I wouldn't be so quick to discount windows 11. I am noticing that an increasing number of the top 3dmark scores are on windows 11.

And as for latency I just I wish reflex analyzer was a more commonly used tool measuring and comparing latency between operating systems and the effectiveness of tweaks. I feel a lot of the insights that can be gleamed from it are more valuable than what you get from latencymon, it is just not being used by optimizers at least not that I have seen.
 
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