Advanced configuration

Advanced Users Only

Avoid this section if you are not confident in your technical ability. Misinterpretation can cause compatibility issues. Understand each setting and how to revert it before changing. Advanced users only.

All configuration files listed here are in the 6. Advanced Configuration folder within the Atlas folder on your Desktop. If you can’t find the Atlas folder, see our guide to restore the Atlas folder.

Affinity

Affinities allow you to specify which core a driver or process runs on. As Windows puts most drivers on Core 0 by default, we can alter this to improve performance and latency. Allocating drivers to their own core will reduce interrupts on Core 0.

This folder contains a few links to some tools to manually set driver affinities.

Boot configuration

This section lets you change the boot configuration for Windows, which can modify quality of life and pre-boot behavior.

Experimental options may improve performance in some cases, but incorrect changes can cause boot issues. Only modify settings you understand.

DSCP

The DSCP is a policy for managing network traffic. It prioritizes data from specific applications and games for lower latency and better responsiveness.

When you run the script, it asks for an executable. Select the executable (game binary file) to enable DSCP.

NVIDIA Display Container

This allows you to enable or disable the NVIDIA Display Container LS service, which connects to a few NVIDIA IPs and uses a small amount of CPU. These scripts are aimed at users that have a stripped driver, and people that barely touch the NVIDIA Control Panel.

Static IP

In this section, you can configure a static IP address, which is useful if your computer serves as a local server or you need to set up port forwarding. This method also reduces the number of services required.

Utilities

The files in this folder are open-source projects in our GitHub utilities repository.

Process Explorer

Process Explorer is part of Microsoft Sysinternals. It is an advanced Task Manager that shows what resources each program uses. See Microsoft’s Process Explorer documentation.

This folder has scripts that can automate the installation/uninstallation of this utility.

Gameutil

Gameutil automates tasks: Timer Resolution, killing DWM or Explorer, disabling CPU Idle states, cleaning memory. See usage instructions on GitHub.

Gameutil is not yet fully updated for Windows 11.

MSI Utility V3

This utility enables Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) on your devices, which can improve performance by reducing interrupt conflicts. A link in this folder explains the benefits and provides the MSI Utility V3 download.

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi enables wireless internet. Atlas enables it by default. To disable it, run Disable Wi-Fi.cmd in the Wi-Fi folder.

You may need to install drivers for Wi-Fi.

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