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Előd Schäffer
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I Built MázliBoost — A Lightweight Windows Gaming Optimization Utility

Why I built MázliBoost

I wanted to build a small Windows gaming utility that focuses on simple, understandable optimizations instead of mysterious "one-click FPS booster" magic.

So I built MázliBoost.

MázliBoost is a lightweight Windows 10/11 gaming optimization utility written in C# and WPF.

The goal is simple:

Give the user control over what gets changed.

What can it do?

The current V0.1.3 release includes:

  • Automatic game detection
  • Windows Game Mode optimization
  • Game DVR / background capture optimization
  • Game process priority optimization
  • High Performance power plan
  • Background optimization options
  • English and Hungarian localization
  • A separate "More Optimizations & Tweaks" section
  • Reversible Windows UI tweaks where applicable

For example, the More Optimizations & Tweaks section contains options such as:

  • Visual Effects to best performance
  • Disable Transparency Effects
  • Reduce Menu Show Delay
  • Reduce Mouse Hover Delay

Windows appearance-related tweaks are explicitly marked as such and are designed to be reversible.

Why another Windows optimizer?

Because I wanted to understand how these things actually work.

Instead of hiding everything behind one giant "BOOST" button, I wanted each optimization to be visible and independently controllable.

The project is also intentionally small.

I'm not trying to build a gigantic "Windows optimizer suite" on day one.

V0.1.3 is just the beginning.

Built with

  • C#
  • .NET 8
  • WPF
  • Visual Studio
  • Windows Registry APIs
  • Windows Power Configuration
  • WMI / System.Management

The project currently targets Windows 10 and Windows 11.

What's next?

There are already several ideas for future versions:

  • Better system information
  • More Windows tweaks
  • More gaming optimizations
  • Improved UI
  • Better GPU-related options
  • More localization
  • Automatic updates
  • More detailed optimization feedback

I also want to keep the project transparent: if a tweak changes something in Windows, the user should know what it does.

Open source

The source code is available on GitHub:

GitHub – MázliBoost

The latest release is V0.1.3, for now.

Feedback

This is still a small project, so I'm very interested in constructive feedback.

If you have ideas for useful, safe and measurable optimizations, I'd love to hear them.

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