Boost Your Potato PC Performance With These 5 Tips

GAMEFINITY.ID, Salatiga – The development of PC games is indeed running very rapidly starting in terms of graphics, gameplay, features, and others. And of course, this development is also followed by the development of PC hardware which is also growing rapidly.

This causes a dilemma for gamers who are hindered by their “potato” PC. Potato PC gamers can only survive by playing old school games with mediocre graphics such as GTA San Andreas, NFS Underground 2, and others because of the limited hardware they have.

But calm down, here the author will share 5 tips to improve the performance of your potato PC so that you can play heavier games.

These tips don’t mean that you can turn your potato PC into a god-spec PC in an instant. These tips only help launch some games that are a little heavy on your potato PC.

So what are the tips? Let’s see together.

Replacing GPU Drivers

Did you know that if you use a laptop with an onboard GPU, you will be given non-optimal drivers? This is done by laptop manufacturers to limit the performance of your GPU so it doesn’t waste battery.

So you can change the mobile Onboard GPU driver to a desktop which of course has good optimization. For example, if you have an Intel HD 4000 3rd Generation GPU, you can change your mobile driver to the Intel HD 4000 3rd Generation desktop driver.

Or if you want something more extreme, you can use a modified driver. One of the modification drivers is Team IntelliModder 32. This team created a program called PHDGD where this program changes the IntelHD driver and optimizes it to the maximum stage.

However, the use of unofficial drivers such as PHDGD is certainly risky. So if you want to use this driver, do it with your own risk.

Fiddling with Config.ini

Of course, as potato PC users, we want low game graphics settings. However, some games only limit graphics settings such as resolution and details and other settings such as Shadow or Anti-Aliasing are not available.

But did you know that you can access all the graphic settings you want to change in the Config.ini file? You can find where your configuration file is via the PCGamingWiki website. If you have found it, you can tinker with hidden settings such as Internal Resolution, Shadow, Field of View, and others to improve performance.

Use Low Graphics Mod

Some games that are very easy to mod like Skyrim, Fallout 4, usually have mods to lower the graphics quality so that they can be played on a potato PC.

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One example of a Low Graphic Mod is the FAR Mod for Nier Automata. This mod is able to access all graphic settings that can be changed such as Global Illumination, FPS Limit, and others.

Change Power Plan

Even though it’s trivial, it turns out that a power plan can have a big impact on your PC’s performance. Power Plan is a feature of the operating system Windows which is useful for managing the performance and performance of the installed hardware.

So if you want your PC’s performance to be maximum, you can change the power plan settings to High Performance Mode. With this the performance of your processor and GPU is not limited.

How to change the Power Plan is to right-click on the battery icon in the toolbar and then click Power Options. There you can change the settings from Balanced to High Performance Mode.

Graphics Control Panel Settings

Each GPU must have its own Graphic Control Panel settings. Intel has the Intel HD Control Panel, AMD has the AMD Catalyst, and NVidia has the NVidia Control Panel.

In the Control panel, you can change the 3D Graphic setting to Performance mode to increase FPS and reduce image quality.

This method is arguably not very effective. But as potato PC users, of course, we have to try various ways to improve the performance of our PC.

Those were 5 tips on how to improve the performance of your potato PC. Of course, the 5 methods above cannot be used for games with specifications that are far above the capabilities of your potato PC. These tips are just temporary tricks while saving for a PC upgrade or buying a laptop with high specs.