Frametide guides
Make your games run the way they should
Step-by-step checks for the setup mistakes that cost the most frames. Every guide works by hand, no app needed.
Games#
Valorant FPS drops and stutter: 10 things to check
Why Valorant drops frames or stutters on a good PC, and ten checks that fix it: in-game frame limits, refresh rate, RAM speed, dual channel, power settings and more.
CS2 FPS drops and stutter: what to check
Why Counter-Strike 2 drops frames or stutters on a good PC, and the checks that fix it: frame limits, refresh rate, launch options, RAM speed, dual channel, power settings and more.
Fortnite stutter and FPS drops: what to check
Why Fortnite stutters or drops frames, and the checks that fix it: rendering mode, frame rate limit, shader stutter after updates, streamed assets, RAM and power settings.
Apex Legends FPS drops and stutter: what to check
Why Apex Legends drops frames or stutters, and the checks that fix it: the FPS cap, adaptive resolution, texture streaming budget, refresh rate, RAM and power settings.
Memory#
How to check if XMP or EXPO is on (and turn it on)
See in 30 seconds whether your RAM runs at its rated speed, and how to turn on XMP, EXPO or DOCP in the BIOS of ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and ASRock boards.
How to check if your RAM runs in dual channel
Check whether your memory runs in dual channel with CPU-Z, which slots to use with two sticks, and why DDR5 shows 4 x 32-bit.
Display#
Is your 144 Hz monitor stuck at 60 Hz? How to check
Many high refresh monitors run at 60 Hz without anyone noticing. How to check and change the refresh rate in Windows 11 and 10, and what to do when 144 Hz is missing.
Is your monitor plugged into the graphics card or the motherboard?
Which video ports on the back of your PC belong to the graphics card, why the motherboard ports cost performance, and how to check in Windows.
Hardware#
Is your graphics card running at full PCIe speed? Check with GPU-Z
How to read GPU-Z's Bus Interface, why the link looks slower when the card is idle, which slot to use and which cards only use x8 by design.
CPU or GPU bottleneck? How to tell in two minutes
Bottleneck calculators guess. Your game tells you: how to read GPU usage, the resolution test, and what each answer means for your next upgrade.