“My mouse feels more 1to1 with my crosshair and visual clarity is way better.”
KothrilAssisted DIY protocol test · 22 April 2026
Your setup,
Install a fully maxed esports OS in one click to play better,
without losing your current Windows, files and games.
“It feels like I can focus better, like I don't have to process what's happening on the screen as much.”
KothrilAssisted DIY protocol test · 22 April 2026
“I can flick quickly and still see clearly.”
KothrilAssisted DIY protocol test · 22 April 2026
Your PC shouldn’t hold you back.
You’re putting in the hours because you want to get good. You want teammates who can count on you, the confidence to take a fight, and the mechanics to win it. But when your aim feels off and your game falls apart at random, it's hard to know if you just need more practice or if your setup is holding you back.
So you look for answers. Another “best settings” video. Another optimization guide. Someone tells you to turn a setting on. Someone else tells you to turn it off. You spend an evening changing things and still aren’t sure if you actually made your game better.
Or you try an optimization app and it hands you another set of switches. Which ones help? Which ones work together? Now you’re back on YouTube, scrolling forums or asking AI how to use the tool you paid for.
Or you pay someone to handle it. They show you a higher FPS number. Great. But does your aim feel more connected? Can you see clearly through a fight? Can you actually play and focus better, or did only a number go up?
Play better. Improve faster.
Imagine your first time on the desktop after installing Max. Windows feels crisp. Everything responds instantly. All your games are already there, with all your settings.
Then you load into the firing range and your hand feels physically connected to your screen. Your movements translate with ultra-high fidelity and crazy-low latency. So much so that you could develop an intuitive sense of aim. Then you look around and it feels smoother than ever, and visual clarity is way better. And you notice that no matter how hard you flick, targets stay perfectly clear.
And when you load into a game, your brain doesn't have to spend half its horsepower on seeing your screen. You can focus better and your practice transfers much better. No more brain fog caused by bad frames or by having to unconsciously adjust to input delay. Over time, your mechanics and awareness get a huge boost.
As you keep playing, it shows up in your stats. More damage, more damage turning into knocks, more wins, higher KD. As time goes on, you'll reach the next rank faster, break more plateaus in aim trainers, and get better faster.
That's exactly what Max is for: helping you play better, improve faster, and get your game to feel better than it ever did.
Here’s what gets in the way.
Fast strafes and AD spam feel impossible to track. No matter what you try. Everyone tells you to slow down and stop overflicking. But your PC responds late, and you miss. Your correction reaches the screen after the opponent has already changed direction. You’re trying to put your crosshair in the right place, and it gets there too late.
When you flick or track, your target turns into a blurred mess. You’re moving your mouse to follow someone, but losing sight of what they’re doing in the process. The lack of motion clarity makes reading your enemy harder.
Your aim is clean in the firing range or your aim trainer, but it doesn’t transfer in-game. In the aim trainer, the screen was clear, but games are blurry during intense fights. And your brain can't focus like it does in the aim trainer. Your skills can't transfer properly.
You struggle to concentrate in fights, like you’re playing through brain fog. Hours spent playing with inconsistent frames, input delay and a blurry screen add up. That strain compounds on your eyes and brain, keeping you from practicing like you should.
Flicks feel choppy even at high FPS. High FPS doesn't mean those frames are stable. The more unevenly your frames are rendered, the more you notice them.
Your performance falls apart when it matters. The firing range is fine, but the wrong building, the wrong part of the map or a fight full of effects is enough to tank it.
And these problems stack. You’re trying to track through delay, blur and inconsistent performance.
More training doesn't fix that. And copying settings or following a guy's free guide will never be enough.
Here’s what it actually takes to maximize your PC. Examining every layer of Windows. Having a deep understanding of what you touch, knowing what to change and how it all works together. Spending 3 months writing a 108-page book you'll base every decision on. Making thousands of decisions, reviewing every possibility one by one. Then finding and fixing the problems those changes introduce. Redoing everything from the beginning many times, reverse-engineering components, and so on.
That’s the work I spent thousands of hours doing.
You could spend years doing that research yourself. And you might not even get there. There is a system to solve this, and I know it because I lived it.
Here’s what you get with Max.
A fully maxed, separate esports OS you install in one click. Switch between your regular and maxxed OS in seconds, directly from the desktop.
Max goes beyond a fresh Windows installation. It configures:
- OS settings, OS components
- Driver components, driver settings
1700+ changes. A unified system. All without having to touch your files, reinstall games, or redo keybinds/sensitivity.
Your current Windows stays.
You have Max for competitive play, and your original OS for everything else.
But your peripherals also need care. That’s why you get in-app step-by-step guidance to configure your peripherals. So your whole setup is ready for competitive play.
How Max works
First, we check your hardware and cooling.
Before you buy, Max checks your components against our Lab records and shows their status.
Your PC will also be stress-tested. Having the right components doesn’t help if they overheat and slow down during a fight. We need to check the machine you actually play on, not only match its specs to a list.
Then Max does the work on your machine.
We are building Max to install a clean Windows environment for esports, apply the protocol, and verify the changes.
Your current Windows and personal files stay in place. We reuse supported game libraries, with your keybinds and sensitivity preserved. We don't ask you to wipe everything and rebuild your setup around a Windows installation you’ve never used.
How the Lab works
Our Lab continuously tests and certifies new configurations for Apex Legends.
We test different hardware configurations so we know exactly what's best for yours. You won't have to choose which tweaks to enable or work out which ones conflict.
What goes onto your PC has to earn its place.
We build our protocol differently.
With FPSU, you are the metric. Our standard for validating a change is whether it helps you play better, not whether it only produces a higher FPS number.
Because a change that helps you hit a few more shots doesn’t matter if it destroys your ability to focus.
Every change to the protocol follows the same decision priority:
1:1 input → stability → latency → FPS.
Your mouse input has to translate perfectly into your aim. That comes first. Then performance has to stay consistent. Then we push latency down, and then FPS up.
More FPS doesn’t make a change good if your aim feels worse or your game becomes less stable. We refuse that trade.
The rest of our method follows six rules:
- Remove what doesn’t serve the goal. If a component serves no purpose in your gaming system, it doesn’t belong there. Keeping the game working, protecting your files and recovering safely are purposes too. Removing something just to claim fewer processes isn’t proof of better performance.
- Control the behavior instead of trusting the default. We need to know what a setting does and why it’s there. If something changes automatically, that behavior needs to be understood and controlled.
- Leave no relevant layer unexamined. BIOS, Windows, drivers and game settings all need a deliberate decision. Sometimes the right decision is to leave a default alone. That’s different from never checking it.
- Make every change work with the whole system. A tweak can look good on its own and make the complete setup worse. The combination is what you’ll actually play on, so the combination is what has to work.
- Document the changes and the reasons behind them. What changed, why, what the tests showed and how to reverse it. We need to be able to reproduce a result, not just remember that it felt good once.
- Keep the priority order when making trade-offs. Input first, then stability, latency and FPS. A bigger number doesn’t get an exception.
We test each release with both machine measurements and human testing on high-end setups, including a 600 Hz display. The complete protocol will have to pass both machine testing and human feedback. A good benchmark won’t override a problem a player can feel.
Ready to feel the difference?
You can close this page and queue another game. Keep practicing, keep trying to improve, and tell yourself you’ll sort out your setup later.
But if input delay, blur and stutters are holding you back, leaving them there is a choice too. You can choose to keep playing around the same problems. Spend attention compensating for your setup instead of reading the fight and making your next move.
Another month will pass. You’ll put more hours into the game. How many of those sessions do you want to spend wondering whether your setup is getting in the way? Fixing it later won’t give you those sessions back.
You’re already willing to put in the work. Imagine getting more out of it. Feeling connected to your aim, seeing clearly through the fight, and focusing on how you want to play.
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