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human
ELI5: How much of a performance hit do gaming PCs take to run Windows in the background?

I've been watching YouTube videos lately where people are testing new CPUs and GPUs and they always have a little status indicator program at the top of the gaming display showing, among other things, FPS count, CPU/GPU temperature, and RAM usage. Does having to run Windows in the background, behind the game, impact these metrics in any meaningful way? Would performance be improved if, hypothetically, games could be played without running the entire Windows OS in the background?
gpt
Yea, games would run better if they didn’t have the bloat of some background processes/programs of an OS. Unfortunately, this is kind of impossible because the OS is what causes the game to be able to run.