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DisplayMagician is a free Windows utility for switching game-specific display, audio, and helper-program setups from shortcuts. It saves display profiles, including wallpapers, changes audio devices, starts or stops supporting programs, and restores settings when an application closes. Shortcuts can be triggered from desktop locations, hotkeys, joysticks, or controllers, while support covers HDR, surround and extended displays, rotated screens, varied refresh rates, USB and wireless displays, and sim-rig field-of-view calculations.

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   ARC Raiders Config Tuner

   Free plan Open source LinuxSelf-hostedWindows

   ARC Raiders graphics tuning and profile backups — ARC Raiders Config Tuner edits one game's graphics file with performance indicators, presets, unlimited profiles, and automatic backups instead of display and audio switching.

   9.2 Free plan Visit site
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   FrameCoach

   Free plan WebWindows

   Frame-rate recommendations across many games and hardware — FrameCoach recommends and applies graphics settings using hardware, game, and target-FPS inputs, rather than configuring displays, audio, and helper programs.

   7.3 Free plan Visit site
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   GameShift

   Free plan Windows

   Per-game Windows optimization with telemetry and restoration — GameShift applies broad system optimizations, monitoring, and anti-cheat adjustments around launches, while DisplayMagician manages display, audio, and helper-program profiles.

   7.1 Free plan Visit site
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   Gaming Optimizer

   Free plan Windows

   CPU affinity management with privacy-focused monitoring — Gaming Optimizer manages CPU affinity, background process priority, metrics, and optional NVIDIA clock locking, rather than display and audio configurations.

   7.0 Open source Visit site
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   Hone

   Free plan Windows

   Broad Windows gaming optimization with user-selected changes — Hone combines supported Windows, GPU, network, and in-game optimizations with Game Mode, instead of shortcut-driven display and audio profiles.

   7.0 Free plan Visit site
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   Intel VTune Profiler

   Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWindows

   Finding CPU, GPU, NPU, memory, and code bottlenecks — Intel VTune Profiler analyzes application and system performance with hotspots, cache analysis, and Flame Graphs, rather than changing game launch settings.

   7.3 Free plan Visit site
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   Magpie

   by Magpie

   Free plan Windows

   Upscaling windowed or fullscreen games across monitors — Magpie upscales windows and fullscreen content with algorithms and filters such as Anime4K, FSR, and CRT shaders, unlike DisplayMagician's configuration profiles.

   6.9 Free plan Visit site
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   Feral GameMode

   Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted
   7.3 Free plan Visit site
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   BDO Optimizer

   Free plan LinuxMacWindows
   7.2 Free plan Visit site
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    CorePin

    Free plan Windows
    7.2 Free plan Visit site
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    GameOptimizer

    Free plan Web
    7.1 Free plan Visit site
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    NVIDIA Profile Inspector

    Free plan Windows
    6.9 Open source Visit site
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    NVIDIA ShadowPlay

    by NVIDIA ShadowPlay

    Free plan Windows
    6.9 Free plan Visit site
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    Optimizationmaxxing

    Free plan Windows
    6.8 Free plan · paid from $115 Visit site
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    NX Optimizer

    Free plan LinuxWindows
    6.7 Free plan Visit site
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    optimizerDuck

    Free plan Windows
    6.7 Free plan Visit site
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    PC Game Booster

    Free plan Windows
    6.7 Free plan · paid from $1.58/mo (annual) · 30-day trial Visit site
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    PULSE

    Free plan Windows
    6.7 Free plan · paid from $29.99/yr · 7-day trial Visit site
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    Settings For Games

    Free plan WebWindows
    6.7 Free plan Visit site
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    OpenForSpeed

    Free plan Linux
    6.5 Free plan Visit site
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    OpenGameBoost

    Free plan Windows
    6.5 Free plan Visit site
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    Smart Game Booster

    Free plan Windows
    6.5 Free plan Visit site
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    TargetFPS

    Free plan Web
    6.5 Free plan Visit site
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    Wise Game Booster

    Free plan Windows
    6.5 Free plan Visit site

Readers may look elsewhere because DisplayMagician requires 64-bit Windows 10 version 1809 or later, or Windows 11, and its plan is Windows-only. Alternatives focus on different jobs: tuning one game's configuration, estimating frame rates, changing system behavior, managing CPU affinity, applying broad gaming optimizations, profiling application bottlenecks, or upscaling windows. Compare operating-system coverage, whether changes are reversible, the games or hardware supported, and whether you need launch automation or performance analysis rather than display and audio profiles.

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