

All the while, RAM stayed still at 7–8 GB usage HDD and SSD were at 0%. After 30 minutes of intense Orc BBQing, my enthusiasm was tempered, but I was still impressed.ĬPU usage increased to 80% during melees and dropped to 40% during lulls. So, I fired up Orcs Must Die! 3 and started the Lava Pits level. I decided to test the optimization services under heavy CPU/RAM usage. My CPU usage went to 1% for the first time and stayed there while I was using the PC! I had gotten so used to seeing it run at 50–100%, especially when running a video game, that I was genuinely shocked by the improvement.

Then, I turned to Task Manager, and my jaw dropped. “Far more enjoyable” user experience? Designed for hardcore multi-taskers? Pah that sounds like a bunch of marketing speak… However, research led me to a 2014 press release announcing OptiCore as a breakthrough innovation that stops “greedy programs” from using too much CPU.

The worst part is that the user is kept out of the loop. However, I also complained that it could be overzealous and fiddle with a program that works fine, breaking it in the process. It peppered my registry with references to the programs I installed over the past months.įurther research showed that Compatibility Assistant is a tool in Windows 10 that automatically detects and compensates for compatibility issues in older programs. I clicked to expand the registry issues, which revealed 92 related to Compatibility Assistant. You can check the details of issues found in my case, 2,220 junk files and 105 registry issues. After the analysis is complete, a big blue Repair All button will appear.
