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Use Nexus well.
From installing to measuring your results. Short articles, written against the app as it is in version 2.3.0.
Getting started
- Installing NexusChoose the installer or the portable ZIP, verify the download, and get past SmartScreen safely.
- First launch: signing in and finding your waySign in with your Nexus account, then find your way around: sections, page tabs, the Dashboard, the status bar and the command palette.
- UninstallingUndo your changes first, then remove Nexus and, if you want, its data.
Using Nexus
- Using Optimize packsApply the best hand-picked tweaks for a goal in one click, after reviewing every change.
- Reviewing changesWhat the review screen shows, and how to read risk, impact, evidence and purpose labels.
- Restore Center and undoUndo one change, a group or the last change, and manage Windows System Restore points.
- Dry-run modeSee exactly what would change without changing anything.
- Interface size and 4KHow Nexus scales itself per monitor, and how to make it bigger or smaller.
- Exporting and importing tweak profilesSave the tweaks you've applied and set up another PC the same way, through the review screen.
Tools
- Game Booster sessionsPick your game, start a reversible Gaming Session, and check the readiness list.
- Bufferbloat test explainedWhy ping spikes when someone downloads, how Nexus grades it, and what actually fixes it.
- Benchmark and how to measure properlyRun same-duration before and after measurements and read the significance verdicts.
- Crosshair overlayDesign a crosshair, pick a hotkey and show it over windowed or borderless games.