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Enable Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS)

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Sets HwSchMode = 2 under Control\GraphicsDrivers, turning on Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling. This hands frame-queue management and GPU memory scheduling from a Windows-side thread to the GPU's own scheduling processor, which can lower CPU overhead and shave a little latency in CPU-bound games. Requirements: Windows 10 2004+ / Windows 11, a WDDM 2.7+ driver, and a GPU that supports it (NVIDIA 451.48+, recent Intel iGPU; most AMD cards see negligible effect). No-op on unsupported hardware. Trade-off: a minority of systems see stutter, worse frame pacing, or capture/encoding glitches (OBS/NVENC) — test and revert if so. Reboot required. Revert restores the previous value (or removes it, letting Windows decide).

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Official documentation: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/hardware-accelerated-gpu-scheduling/

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