It seems basic, but I've seen people who have played games on a PC for months before realizing that mouse acceleration was turned on. It should go without saying that this is pretty terrible for gaming, where a quick mouse flick or short correction can make all the difference.

In short, Windows will speed up or slow down how quickly your cursor moves based on how fast you're moving the mouse. By default, Windows has an option enabled called Enhance Pointer Precision, which is a form of mouse acceleration. The best place to start optimizing Windows for gaming is your mouse. Turn off the Enhance Pointer Precision option Not all of these tips will boost your frame rate in games (read our guide on the graphics settings to change in every game for that), but they all make using a Windows gaming PC a little easier. You can squeeze extra performance out of your Windows PC by tweaking a few settings, along with optimizing settings in apps like Steam, Discord, and your GPU's control panel. Let windows manage the page file, it's not really that important for performance. When you're running a game you want all of the files in RAM to be in RAM, nothing will be in RAM unless it's intended to be accessed regularly at a very high speed.

Offload data from RAM that is 'cold', meaning it's not heavily used. To act as a buffer so that if a program is about to use all of your memory, Windows can offload a lot of the RAM to the page file to ensure the system doesn't crash. This will actually reduce your gaming performance significantly. The reason you don't want your virtual memory too high is because it will actually offload some of your game files from RAM to your hard disk, and your hard disk is significantly slower. On Linux Systems, we have the swap file and it's recommended to set it to 4GiB as a standard if your RAM is over 4GiB. If by virtual memory you mean the page file, then I would suggest setting it to auto or as small as you can without impacting stability. What would be the best virtual memory settings for Windows 10 for 8 GB and 16 GB RAM? Would the best minimun for 8 GB RAM is 8192 and maximum is 12,288?! Would it make any difference with gaming?!

Windows 10 best settings for gaming