Maximize your FPS :: Use CPUCores to isolate and constrain OS + non-game processes and dedicate CPU resources to be used exclusively for your games! CPUCores fully integrates with all Steam games!
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“OMG best 16 dollars i have spent in years. EVERYTHING is faster smoother and just plain better! Awesome software!”
Thumbs-Up – Tarnis

“I just wanted to let you know that this works amazing for me on most all of the games I have tested so far, and Some of them I get a pretty big FPS boost... Thank you for this amazing tool :-)”
Thumbs-Up – Akiba

“This little utility has the potential to boost your FPS by a significant amount. The benefit will always vary but it WILL make your game run better if you're not a Windows user with the black belt in Optimization.”
Thumbs-Up – Six Of Saturn

Just Updated

  • 1 Click "START RANDOM GAME" functionality!
  • Works extremely well with Battle Royale games!
  • CPUCores fully supports VR-based games!
  • Fully supports Steam-based games as well as non-Steam games and applications!

About This Software


CPUCores is a cutting-edge Windows based software built by gamers, specifically for gamers, with 1 thing in mind: INCREASE YOUR FPS! CPUCores does this by micromanaging your Windows OS and non-essential applications to delivery maximum CPU to your game!


1) DIRECT STEAM INTEGRATION
  • CPUCores automatically detects all of your Steam games.

2) OS OPTIMIZATION
  • To start, CPUCores will isolate your entire OS to your first core.
  • Secondly, CPUCores examines and constrains key Windows services that are not essential and known to hog CPU resources.
  • Third, CPUCores examines and isolate key Windows processes to ensure a perfect balance of CPU savings without starving key Windows processes.

3) GAME OPTIMIZATION
  • CPUCores will isolate and dedicate processing cores to be exclusively used by your game.
  • CPUCores will allow game-specific hyper-thread disabling/enabling.

4) BACKGROUND / NON-GAME OPTIMIZATIONS
  • CPUCores examines what non-OS and non-game operations your PC is running. It will do things such as constrain non-game programs to your first processing core.

5) EXTRAS
  • Ability to "START RANDOM GAME" with 1 button click!
  • Fully supporting VR games!
  • Support for non-Steam games
  • Support for general, non-game applications like video editing, graphic design and more!
  • Convenient game sorting options makes large Steam libraries manageable
  • Incredible community surrounding the software!
  • Direct contact with the developer for suggestions on feature updates!


The impact of how CPUCores will help with FPS depends on essentially 2 things:

#1 Your PC Hardware
#2 The game itself

Here are some benchmarks we've recently seen from our test system:

  • ARMA III - 17.5% FPS Increase!
  • Team Fortress 2 - 58% FPS Increase!
  • TombRaider - 6.3% FPS Increase
  • Left4Dead2 - 14% FPS Increase


The CPUCores application identifies dozens of Windows programs, background processes, and non-gaming applications, and immediately controls and isolates them to a subsection of your total CPU resources.

CPUCores will then free up a block of CPU resources and dedicated it specifically for a game. You can then launch a Steam game, or any game/program, directly via the CPUCores application. This enables CPUCores to control the processor usage for that game/program and ensure it has dedicated usage to processing cores. Your game no longer has to share resources with the OS / other applications.

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System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Any dual core CPU or higher. Low/Medium/Medium-High 2/4/6 core CPU systems preferred.
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Additional Notes: CPUCores was designed for system ranging between medium-low to medium-high end PC systems. CPUs that are in the 2 core (dual core) to 4 core (quad core) range, as well as some 6 core CPUs, This systems that have the best results would typically be (low end) E8400/Q9600, AMD FX, Core2Duo, and medium-high end i5 and i7s.
    Recommended:
    • OS *: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Any dual core CPU or higher. Low/Medium/Medium-High 2/4/6 core CPU systems preferred.
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Additional Notes: CPUCores was designed for system ranging between medium-low to medium-high end PC systems. CPUs that are in the 2 core (dual core) to 4 core (quad core) range, as well as some 6 core CPUs, This systems that have the best results would typically be (low end) E8400/Q9600, AMD FX, Core2Duo, and medium-high end i5 and i7s.
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

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