So many people just open a game and play it, ignoring the settings.
The default controls in StarCraft 2 set you up for failure in custom games. Turning off simple command card and allowing the selection of enemy units helps a ton.
When playing interactive story games like until dawn, try to pick up everything in each room before continuing. Be nice to the animals!
Breath of the wild is more fun if you do the major dungeons in reverse order.
When playing with emulators let the game go through its idle intro card and listen carefully to the sound if it distorts or pops then your game is likely to be unstable try changing more options. Such as enabling interpreter mode for the audio.
When playing Super Mario World, don’t be afraid to explore the stages esp the boo mansions.
When a game offers Vulkan/dx12 mode, try it.
The Nintendo switch allows you to control the MTU of the wifi connection, adjusting this can help in poor connectivity situations.
Changing your DNS to a public provider such as Quad9 can help.
Investigating if you can enable ipv6 on your network can offer you some boons.
Confirming port forwarding is working for your games will help immensely in games that rely on that. (Also resolve any double NAT issues)
Do not attempt to game on a wifi repeater, only sadness follows.
Unless you are playing fallout 3 or New Vegas on era correct hardware there are mods to make it more stable.
Businesses think in quarters, seeing a cost centre through man hours is a huge no-no for boasting a healthy valuation. They use a model far more suited towards selling tangible products than something long term.
Might be worth cleaning the computer if you haven’t in the last few months. If you’re unfamiliar with the process check out some YouTube videos on it, this is as mandatory as changing the oil in a car regularly.
There’s tools like cpuid that can indicate if throttling is occurring.
Make sure your games are on a SSD, this isn’t optional anymore; modern games often rely on loading assets as they are needed and if they fail to do that it could appear to stutter, among other issues. This is particularly important for UE games.
Additionally that smearing effect you mentioned could be FSR loading low resolution textures. Try tweaking your settings related to it.
Confirm, that your AMD drivers are up to date. Also If your ram supports XMP or a equivalent feature enable it to benefit from your ram. This is often overlooked.
Enable “Above 4G Decoding”. Consult your motherboard manual for details on how to do that.
Additionally if your game offers a choice between directX or Vulkan.
Choose Vulkan, if you experience problems try the DirectX options.