#777·Winhance

[SUGGESTION] Some of the recommended settings HURT gaming performance

Author: argon932Created Sep 4, 2026Updated Sep 4, 2026
Labelsenhancement

Please confirm these before moving forward

  • I have searched for similar suggestions and have not found a duplicate.
  • This is an improvement to an existing feature (not a new feature request).

Describe your suggestion

Xbox Game DVR: I know it's weird, but this is needed for proper core parking on 9950X3D processors. Game Bar requires this as a dependency to mark games as games. Disabling this hurts performance by about 10-15% and makes the processor use the wrong cores in games. Any AMD processor with a mixture of 3D cores and normal cores needs this enabled. A warning should be put here. BloatRemoval script was also re-disabling GameDVR every time I launch Winhance because off the various "Xbox" programs I deselected in the Windows App tab.

Power Plan. Balanced preset is also required for processors like this. Anything but balanced results in a performance loss because the cores won't properly park and re-assigned. A warning should be put here.

Power Throttling: Again, needed for some processors to properly assign correct cores to games.

Minimum processor state: This is set to 0 if you hit default but the default is actually 5 (tested on 3 systems). 0 causes BSOD on a laptop I have. If you hit recommended, it sets it to 100 which is also frankly bad. Modern processors have virtually no benefits to running frequency at max all the time. This shouldn't be touched or at least a warning should be placed here that this will drastically increase heat and energy consumption for no noticeable gains.

Variable Refresh Rate: Many many people use Gsync/FreeSync. Took me awhile to figure out why it wasn't working anymore.

Automatically manage color for apps: This setting is required to be on with certain monitors with bad built-in sRGB clamping. A warning should be put here because most people do want this off. If colors look dull or oversaturated, this should be enabled or disabled accordingly.

Current behavior

I expect the app to not hurt my performance if I click recommended or cause large power consumption increase.

Proposed behavior

Change the recommended values or show warnings so I am notified that this will affect my system negatively.

Benefit

Self explanatory.

Additional context

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