HN: Frametide – a Windows game optimizer that measures instead of promising FPS

Find out what's holding your games back. Frametide checks your PC for setup mistakes, tunes Windows, drivers and power settings for your hardware and measures in your own game which setup actually runs smoother. Every change is undone with one click.

Free version, no sign-up · Windows 10 and 11

The app switches presets one after another while you play the same scene each time. Frame times are recorded with Intel's PresentMon, straight from Windows, without touching the game.

Frames per second on average. The number everyone knows.

The slowest moments. This is where you feel stutter, and where good settings help most.

Single hitches that disappear in an average. Counted, not guessed.

No registry tricks from forums and no "FPS booster". Every setting is explained, checked and reversible.

Detects your CPU, graphics card, memory, motherboard and displays, and reads more than 160 settings across Windows, power, graphics driver, network, services and BIOS.

The AI Claude builds several presets from your hardware and your goal. It only picks from the app's checked list of settings and never runs anything on your PC itself.

Avg FPS, 1% and 0.1% lows, stutters per minute and a frame-time graph for every run, each preset against your original settings. Start measuring with F9 right in the game. The winner stays active.

Your original settings are saved on first start and never changed. A Windows restore point is created before the first change.

Finds common setup mistakes: a 144 Hz monitor running at 60 Hz, the cable in the motherboard instead of the graphics card, too few PCIe lanes, RAM in single channel. Free: how many it found. Premium: which ones and the fix.

Removes leftover driver installers, temp files and crash dumps, and switches off programs that start with Windows, the same way Task Manager does. Shader caches stay, so games don't stutter afterwards.

What the app must not change itself, such as EXPO/XMP or Resizable BAR, it explains step by step, including where to find it on your motherboard.

Download for free. The app scans your PC and shows what can be improved.

With Premium: choose your goal and game, Claude suggests presets. Two ready-made ones are included.

The app switches presets, you play the same scene. Measuring happens automatically.

The best preset stays active. Your own tweaks can be saved as your own preset.

Cancel any time. Final price including VAT at checkout.

Frametide doesn't touch your games: no injection, no access to the game's memory. It changes Windows and driver settings and measures frame rates through Windows events with Intel's open-source tool PresentMon, like many overlay and monitoring apps do. That said, nobody but the anti-cheat vendor can guarantee anything for every anti-cheat system.

No, and that's exactly why the app measures. Some settings help a lot on one PC and do nothing on another. You see in black and white what runs better in your game on your PC, and you keep only that.

The app only changes settings from its own checked list. Every change is backed up first, a restore point is created before the first change, and "Back to my original settings" undoes everything. It never changes BIOS settings itself; it gives you instructions instead.

Only hardware model names (e.g. "Ryzen 7 7800X3D", "RTX 4070"), the values of the settings, the game you enter and, if you choose, your measured results. No names, no files, no serial numbers. Details are in the privacy policy.

Free, forever: the full PC scan, Cleanup (leftover files and startup programs), the basic tweaks (about 30% of all settings) and undoing any change. The scan also tells you how many setup or BIOS problems it found. Premium (€20 a month) adds AI presets, benchmarks in your own games, all 160+ settings and which problems the scan found, with how to fix them. Details in the docs.

Any time, effective at the end of the paid month, in Polar's customer portal. The link is in the app under Settings and in the e-mail you get after buying.

Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), administrator rights (system settings can only be changed with them) and internet for AI presets and the license check. Without internet the app keeps working for up to 7 days.

New programs don't have a "reputation" with Windows SmartScreen and antivirus software yet; it grows with every download. In SmartScreen, click "More info" and then "Run anyway". How to check the file and allow it in your antivirus: Antivirus and SmartScreen.