The PC Games page scans your launchers for installed titles and gives each one two things: a one-click set of safe, anti-cheat-friendly Windows optimizations, and a tailored list of in-game graphics settings for your hardware and GPU. There are 44 built-in profiles covering popular competitive and AAA games.
Open PC Games and click Scan. BRUTAL detects installed games across several launchers:
Installed games are listed first and shown in full colour; supported-but-not-installed titles are greyed out. The status line reads, for example, "Found 6 of 30 supported games installed."
Click an installed game to open its detail. You'll see its launcher, process name(s), anti-cheat type, network ports, install path, and a Running badge if it's open right now. Below that is a recommended in-game settings list tuned to three things: the game's genre (competitive shooter, battle royale, MOBA, online/single-player AAA, casual), your hardware tier, and your GPU vendor.
That guidance includes resolution, display mode, V-Sync, frame-rate cap, an overall preset, and vendor-aware advice for upscaling (DLSS on NVIDIA, FSR on AMD, XeSS on Intel) and low-latency tech (Reflex / Anti-Lag), plus shadow, anti-aliasing, texture and ray-tracing recommendations. These are guidance only — BRUTAL does not rewrite the game's own config files here.
Click Optimize Game and BRUTAL applies a set of safe, Windows-level tweaks for that title:
The live log shows each step and a tweak count. The optimised state is remembered, the card shows an Optimized badge, and a Remove button appears to undo everything cleanly.
This is where BRUTAL's honesty matters. When a game uses anti-cheat, the detail panel says so explicitly:
BRUTAL never injects into a game, hooks its rendering, or touches its files for these optimizations — so it stays anti-cheat-safe.
Playing mobile titles instead? See Game profiles (mobile games). Want a live FPS readout while you play? See The FPS overlay.
Which launchers does the PC game scan cover?
Steam (by App ID), Epic Games (JSON manifests), GOG (registry) and Riot (metadata), plus an uninstall-registry fallback. There are 44 built-in game profiles in total.
Is it safe to optimize a game that uses anti-cheat like Vanguard?
Yes. For Riot Vanguard, BRUTAL skips kernel-level tweaks entirely and applies only safe Windows-level settings (QoS, priority, GPU preference, power plan). For other anti-cheats it applies only Windows-level settings and never touches the game's files or injects into it.
Does BRUTAL change my in-game graphics settings?
No. The recommended in-game settings are guidance you apply yourself inside the game. The Optimize button only changes Windows-level settings (priority, QoS, MMCSS, GPU preference, timer, fullscreen optimizations).
How do I undo PC game optimization?
Open the optimised game and click Remove. The IFEO priority, QoS policies, GPU preference and fullscreen-optimization entries BRUTAL created are deleted.