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Adding my findings in case they help someone. The patch notes hinted at this but never actually spelled it out.

Half the advice online is a year out of date, which is why I wanted a current thread. Still open to better approaches if anyone has one.

This is the bit people miss — the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

Had the exact same issue. keep a note of what you changed, otherwise you cannot undo it cleanly later.

Short version: do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Worth checking first: temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.

Slightly different take — nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

For what it is worth, the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.

Depends on your setup, but broadly region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

Only partly related, but it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Depends on your setup, but broadly give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

Only partly related, but check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

From experience, the averages hide the problem; look at the one percent lows instead.

That fixed it for me, at least.

In my testing, nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

Let us know which part worked.