# Frozen Tweaks

> Frozen Tweaks is a Windows PC and game optimization tool for competitive players. It applies documented, fully reversible changes to Windows, power, GPU driver and network settings to raise frame rate, cut input latency and remove stutter. It never injects into game processes and never modifies game files. Built and maintained by Frost Live, a PC optimization content creator, who also writes the guides listed below.

## What Frozen Tweaks is

- Category: Windows and game optimization utility (Windows 10 and 11).
- Method: configures the operating system, power plan, GPU driver and network stack. It is a settings tool, not a patcher.
- Anti-cheat posture: operates entirely outside the game process. No DLL injection, no renderer hooks, no game file or config modification, no unsigned kernel driver.
- Reversibility: every applied tweak is logged and can be rolled back individually or all at once. Prompts for a system restore point before its first run.
- Persistence: re-applies its configuration after Windows feature updates and clean GPU driver installs, which are the events that silently revert manual tuning.
- Game profiles: CS2, Valorant and Fortnite in the free tier; Apex Legends, Call of Duty, Battlefield, ARC Raiders and more in Pro and Elite.
- Companion tool: FrostRes, a free custom and stretched resolution utility for NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPUs. No account required.

## Honest limits

- Realistic gains: roughly 20-45% higher average FPS on a Windows system that has never been tuned; typically under 10% on one that already has XMP/EXPO enabled, a current driver and a performance power mode.
- No optimizer can exceed the hardware. If a system is GPU-bound at its target resolution, settings changes recover waste; they do not create headroom that never existed.
- Frozen Tweaks contains no registry cleaner and no RAM booster, deliberately, because neither improves gaming performance.
- Published performance figures are ranges with hardware caveats rather than fixed multipliers, because the outcome depends on the bottleneck of the individual machine.

## Pricing

- Frozen Free: EUR 0. Core Windows and power tweaks, 3 game profiles (CS2, Valorant, Fortnite).
- Frozen Pro: EUR 14.99 per month, or EUR 118.80 per year. Full tweak catalogue, all game profiles, Frozen AI, scheduler, priority support.
- Frozen Elite: EUR 149 one-time. Everything in Pro, lifetime updates, 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Purchase page: https://frozentweaks.com/purchase

## Author

- Frost Live - founder of Frozen Tweaks and a full-time PC optimization content creator. Author of every guide on this site. Profile: https://frozentweaks.com/authors/frost-live

## Guides

Every guide is available as plain markdown at https://frozentweaks.com/md/<slug>, and the complete text of all 19 guides is at https://frozentweaks.com/llms-full.txt.

### Game Guides

- [CS2 FPS Boost: Best Settings and Launch Options for 2026](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/cs2-fps-boost): For maximum CS2 FPS, set Shader Detail, Model/Texture Detail and Particle Detail to Low, Ambient Occlusion to Disabled, Global Shadow Quality to High, High Dynamic Range to Performance and NVIDIA Reflex to Enabled + Boost, then use the launch options -novid -nojoy -fullscreen. Keep Boost Player Contrast on and shadows above Low - both cost a little performance and materially improve your ability to see enemies.
- [Valorant FPS Boost: Best Settings on Unreal Engine 5](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/valorant-fps-boost): For maximum Valorant FPS, set Material, Texture, Detail and UI Quality to Low, turn off Vignette, Bloom, Distortion, Cast Shadows and V-Sync, set Anti-Aliasing to MSAA 2x and Anisotropic Filtering to 1x, keep Multithreaded Rendering on, and enable NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency at On + Boost. Valorant is CPU-bound on most systems, so low GPU utilisation is normal rather than a fault.
- [Fortnite FPS Boost: Performance Mode and Best Settings](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/fortnite-fps-boost): The fastest way to boost Fortnite FPS is to switch Rendering Mode to Performance (Alpha), which replaces the high-fidelity renderer with a lightweight DirectX 11 path and commonly doubles frame rate on mid and low-end systems. If you stay on DirectX 12, set Shadows off, Effects and Post Processing low, Textures low, keep View Distance at Epic for visibility, and enable NVIDIA Reflex at On + Boost.
- [ARC Raiders FPS Boost: Fixing Unreal Engine 5 Stutter](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/arc-raiders-fps-boost): For the best ARC Raiders performance, start from the Medium preset, turn Motion Blur, Depth of Field and ray tracing off, set upscaling to Quality or Balanced, and enable NVIDIA Reflex or AMD Anti-Lag. That configuration typically holds 60-90 FPS on mid-range hardware. Most remaining hitching is Unreal Engine 5 shader compilation and clears after a few minutes of play following a patch.
- [Black Ops 7 FPS Boost: Settings, VRAM Scale and Worker Threads](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-fps-boost): The two highest-impact Black Ops 7 fixes are lowering VRAM Scale Target from its 90% default to 60-70%, which resolves most stuttering, and turning ray tracing and motion blur off. Beyond that, run the game from an SSD (it is a hard requirement), enable NVIDIA Reflex at On + Boost, and cap frames slightly below your refresh rate for consistent frame times.
- [Battlefield 6 FPS Boost: Best PC Settings for Large Maps](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/battlefield-6-fps-boost): For the best Battlefield 6 performance, turn ray tracing off (commonly worth around 25%), set lighting to Medium, Effects and Post-Process quality to Low, Ambient Occlusion to SSAO, textures to High on 8 GB cards or Ultra on 12 GB and above, and enable DLSS, FSR or XeSS at Quality with Reflex or Anti-Lag 2 on and a frame cap just under your refresh rate.
- [Marvel Rivals FPS Boost: Taming Lumen on Unreal Engine 5](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/marvel-rivals-fps-boost): The single biggest Marvel Rivals performance lever is Global Illumination: switching it from Lumen to SSGI at low quality commonly returns 30-60 FPS on a mid-range card. Follow it with Reflection Quality set to Screen Space, DLSS or FSR at Quality with sharpening around 70-80, model detail and post-processing low, and exclusive fullscreen rather than windowed.
- [Apex Legends FPS Boost: Settings and Launch Options](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/apex-legends-fps-boost): For maximum Apex Legends FPS, set Adaptive Resolution FPS Target to 0, Model Detail and Effects Detail to Low, Volumetric Lighting and Dynamic Spot Shadows to Disabled, Ambient Occlusion Quality to Disabled, Impact Marks to Disabled, and Anti-aliasing to TSAA. Add the launch option +fps_max followed by a value about three below your refresh rate, and enable NVIDIA Reflex at On + Boost.
- [GTA 6 on PC: Release Status and How to Prepare Your Rig](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/gta-6-pc-requirements): As of August 2026, GTA 6 is confirmed for consoles on 19 November 2026, and Rockstar has announced no PC release date, no PC storefront and no PC system requirements. Based on Rockstar's history - seven to nineteen months between console and PC launches for its last three major titles - a PC version is unlikely before late 2027. Treat every published GTA 6 PC requirements list as speculation.
- [Stretched Resolution: How It Works and Whether It Helps](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/stretched-resolution-guide): Stretched resolution means rendering at a narrower aspect ratio such as 4:3 and stretching it to fill a 16:9 display, which makes player models appear wider and can raise FPS by lowering the render resolution. The trade is real: you lose horizontal field of view, so you see less of the map. Setting it up requires a custom resolution plus GPU scaling set to full-panel in your driver.

### Windows & Hardware

- [How to Increase FPS on PC: The Complete 2026 Guide](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/how-to-increase-fps-on-pc): To increase FPS on PC, work in order of impact: enable XMP/EXPO in BIOS, update your GPU driver, set Windows to the best-performance power mode, then disable shadows, post-processing and motion blur in game and turn on DLSS, FSR or XeSS at Quality. On most mid-range systems that sequence yields roughly 20-45% higher average FPS and a much flatter frame-time graph.
- [Windows 11 Gaming Optimization: What Still Works in 2026](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/windows-11-gaming-optimization): The Windows 11 settings that still measurably improve gaming in 2026 are: power mode set to Best performance, Game Mode on, windowed-game optimizations and variable refresh rate on, Xbox Game Bar background recording off, startup applications pruned, and games installed on an SSD. Most other circulated Windows tweaks are either placebo, already the default, or trade security for a few percent.
- [How to Fix Stuttering and Frame Drops: Diagnose Before You Tweak](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/fix-stuttering-frame-drops): Stuttering has six common causes, and the symptom tells you which: hitching only after a patch is shader compilation and resolves itself; hitching in fixed locations is asset streaming from a slow drive; hitching that worsens over a session is VRAM or memory pressure; a regular pulse is a background process or overlay; hitching under load is thermal or power throttling; and audio crackling alongside it points to a DPC latency problem from a driver.
- [Best NVIDIA Control Panel Settings for Gaming in 2026](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/nvidia-control-panel-best-settings): The NVIDIA settings that matter are: Power management mode set to Prefer maximum performance, Low Latency Mode Ultra only in games without Reflex, Max Frame Rate capped about three below your refresh, Texture filtering quality set to High performance, Shader Cache Size at 10 GB or Unlimited, Monitor Technology set to G-SYNC Compatible, Preferred refresh rate at Highest available, and Vertical sync off unless you run G-Sync.
- [Best AMD Adrenalin Settings for Gaming in 2026](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/amd-adrenalin-best-settings): For competitive gaming on a Radeon GPU, enable Radeon Anti-Lag 2, turn Radeon Chill and Radeon Boost off, set Texture Filtering Quality to Performance, enable Surface Format Optimization, leave Wait for Vertical Refresh off unless the application specifies, enable FreeSync, and set Frame Rate Target Control about three below your refresh rate. Enable Smart Access Memory in BIOS if your platform supports it.
- [Low-End PC Gaming Optimization: Getting Playable Frame Rates](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/low-end-pc-gaming-optimization): On a low-end PC, the order that works is: move the game to an SSD, enable XMP or EXPO, set the Windows power mode to Best performance, prune startup applications, use upscaling at Performance mode, and switch to a game's dedicated low-fidelity renderer where one exists (such as Fortnite's Performance Mode). If you can spend money, an SSD and a second matched memory stick beat any software change.

### Latency & Networking

- [How to Reduce Input Lag on PC: The Whole Latency Chain](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/reduce-input-lag): To reduce input lag, work through the whole chain: turn V-Sync off, cap your frame rate about three below your refresh rate with G-Sync or FreeSync on, enable NVIDIA Reflex or AMD Anti-Lag 2, play in exclusive fullscreen, disable Enhance Pointer Precision in Windows, use raw input in game, and set your monitor overdrive to its middle setting. Those changes typically remove 20-40 ms of end-to-end delay.

### Buying Guides

- [The Best PC Optimizer for Gaming in 2026: How to Choose One](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/best-pc-optimizer-for-gaming): The best PC optimizer for gaming is one that makes only documented, reversible changes to Windows, power and GPU driver settings, never touches game files or injects into game processes, shows you exactly what it changed, and re-applies its work after Windows and driver updates. Anything that promises a fixed FPS multiplier, bundles a registry cleaner, or cannot be fully undone is marketing, not optimization.

### Trust & Safety

- [Is PC Optimization Software Safe? What to Check Before Installing](https://frozentweaks.com/guides/is-pc-optimization-software-safe): PC optimization software is safe when it only changes Windows, power, driver and network settings, keeps a reversible record of every change, and never enters the game process. It is genuinely risky when it injects DLLs, modifies game files, hooks the renderer, or requires you to disable antivirus - those behaviours can trigger anti-cheat bans regardless of intent. Check which category a tool falls into before installing it.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://frozentweaks.com): product overview, pricing and demo.
- [Guides index](https://frozentweaks.com/guides): all 19 optimization guides.
- [Purchase](https://frozentweaks.com/purchase): plans and checkout.
- [FrostRes](https://frozentweaks.com/frost-res): free custom and stretched resolution tool.
- [Refund policy](https://frozentweaks.com/refund): 30-day money-back guarantee and EU withdrawal rights.
- [Legal notice](https://frozentweaks.com/legal-notice): operator identification (Germany).
- [Privacy policy](https://frozentweaks.com/privacy)
- [Terms of service](https://frozentweaks.com/terms)

## Contact

- Support: support@frozentweaks.com
- Discord: https://discord.gg/frostcord
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@frozentweaks