Especially with the 3.5 preview/beta update I’ve been seeing a lot of people say that the stuff CryoUtilities does is wack and doesn’t really work, and one dude even went as far as to call it a placebo in a post where I mentioned it.
Does stuff like the swap file and swappiness, amongst other things, really boost performance and all that? Or is it just a waste of time and (storage) space?
It’s not a magic performance boost for everything - there are some scenarios it seems like it improves or stabilises performance for certain games, to a greater or lesser extent. In some cases gains are quite marginal.
The only real deep dives into how CryoUtilities affect performance are by Cryo himself. I don’t think he’s lying or misleading anyone, but it is a small pool of analysis.
There’s also one poster here whose whole personality seems to be “CryoUtilities are bad, it’s a placebo, people who use it are dumb”. They’re not very good at putting an argument in any way other than assertion and abuse and I’m not sure they have a lot of insight to offer.
It did appear to help me with the performance and stability of Midnight Suns early this year. Since then I’ve been playing less demanding games and I reverted the changes as they weren’t necessary for me. But there certainly doesn’t seem to be any harm in trying it out.