Streaming and playing on one PC. Make the background earn its keep.
When one PC runs the game, the encoder, and the chat, background work costs frames. How eclean trims the load and shows you the bottleneck while you are live.
Free · Windows 10 and 11
The problem.
The preview looked fine, then the match started and the dropped-frames counter began to climb. One PC is running the game, the encoder, the capture, and the chat, and every background task Windows wakes up in the middle of that competes with all of them at once. Your viewers notice before you do.
A single-PC stream has no slack. The game wants the CPU and the GPU, the encoder wants whatever is left, and capture, alerts, and chat take their cut on top. When an updater or a scheduled task wakes up in the middle of that, something has to give, and it is usually frames. On a machine this loaded, background work is not a rounding error. It is the margin.
eclean's job here is to make that margin something you chose. Booster puts startup apps, services, and scheduled tasks in one view, so the work running behind your stream is deliberate rather than accumulated. The live hardware views then show processor, graphics, memory, and network demand as it changes, which means the next time frames drop mid-match you can watch which resource is pinned instead of blindly lowering the bitrate.
The tweak list further down is picked for exactly this workload. Game Bar's own recording services duplicate work your capture software already does, so turning them off returns overhead to the encode. The MMCSS and foreground priority tweaks shape how the scheduler shares CPU time when everything wants it at once, and each explains that effect before you apply it. The network throttling tweak removes a packet limit Windows applies during multimedia playback, which matters on a machine that is simultaneously playing and pushing a stream out.
Diagnosis is where the live views earn their place on a second monitor. A dropped-frames warning from your streaming software says something is short and never says what. Watching the processor, network, and memory panels while the warning fires narrows it in a minute, and that determines whether the fix is trimming background load, changing encoder settings, or admitting the hardware is the wall. eclean is direct about that last case. It cannot create headroom that is not there, and its own limits say so.
The maintenance angle suits a streaming schedule. Cleanup that would compete with an encode can run on your terms instead, and Pro's scheduled cleaning handles the recurring part between streams. Everything on this page otherwise runs on the free tier, and every change stays explained, logged, and revertible from the history, which is the difference between a settings drawer you trust and one you rebuild before every big stream.
What eclean does here.
The whole background load in one place
Startup apps, services, and scheduled tasks live in three corners of Windows. Booster brings them together so you can see everything running behind the stream and trim it deliberately.
In Booster
See the bottleneck while you are live
Live processor, graphics, memory, and network views show what the game and the encoder are asking of the hardware right now, so a dropped-frames warning points at a resource instead of a guess.
In Your PC
Less competing with the encode
Optimizer's performance tweaks reduce background work that competes with responsiveness and frame consistency. Each one describes what it changes before you apply it, and supported changes can be reverted from the history.
In Optimizer
Free on Windows 10 and 11, no trial timer.
Download freeThe tweaks, by name. Each one explains itself before it runs.
Optimize MMCSS
Configures the Multimedia Class Scheduler Service to allocate more CPU resources to applications. Reduces system responsiveness reservation, improving game frame times and reducing input latency.
Prioritize Foreground Apps
Configures Windows process scheduling to give higher priority to the active window. This improves UI responsiveness, reduces input lag in games, and provides a smoother multitasking experience.
Disable Game Bar
Disables Xbox Game Bar, Game DVR, and background game recording features. This reduces CPU and memory overhead during gaming sessions and eliminates overlay-related performance impacts.
Disable Network Throttling
Disables Windows network throttling during multimedia playback. Removes the 10 packets/ms limit to improve network performance for gaming, streaming, and VoIP applications.
Disable Background Apps
Prevents apps from running in the background when not actively in use. This reduces CPU and memory usage, extends battery life on laptops, and improves overall system responsiveness.
Every tweak above changes Windows settings, and applied changes land in a history. See how Optimizer works
Proof, then limits.
What you can check
Startup apps, services, and scheduled tasks appear in one place, so the whole background load is visible before you trim it.
In BoosterLive processor, graphics, memory, storage, and network activity can be followed as it changes.
In Your PC
Where eclean stops
eclean does not configure OBS, encoders, or capture software, and it promises no bitrate or dropped-frame numbers.
It cannot create headroom your hardware does not have. If the CPU is pinned with nothing left to trim, the honest answer is encoder settings or a second PC.
If eclean steps over a line here, tell us and we'll fix it.
Still deciding? Fair questions, answered.
Is eclean safe to download?
Yes. The installer is a single signed file from our own release server, with no bundled extras. While our signing certificate is new, Windows SmartScreen may ask you to confirm the publisher, which reads eclean Labs AB, the company that signs our Windows installer. What the app collects, and what it never touches, is documented in the trust center.
Is the free version actually useful?
Yes. The core of eclean, understanding your PC and keeping it tidy, is free without time limits or nagging. Pro adds the upkeep that runs on its own, like weekly cleanup.
Can it run maintenance on a schedule?
Yes, with Pro. Automatic cleanup clears what apps leave behind every week, even when eclean is closed. Stay optimized puts your changes back after a Windows update. Without Pro, eclean works when you open it.