Lowering the screen resolution can improve frame rates in games.

Some players like to adjust the resolution for certain games to boost their FPS (frames-per-second) rates.

Games may not look as good, but some play better at lower resolutions.

A monitor

Thats one reason some users need to regularly change the resolution setting in Windows 11.

Users must seemingly bring up the display options in prefs whenever they need to change resolution.

QRes is a third-party command-line tool that enables users to set the screen resolution in the Command Prompt.

The Extract all button

As such, downloading QRes will enable you to create desktop shortcuts for changing the screen resolution.

Thex:value specifies a resolution width and they:is for the height.

That command-line tool also enables you to change color depth and refresh rate options.

Extract Compressed (Zipped) Folders window

Here are some examples of QRes commands:

The first command will change the color depth to 24 bit.

it’s possible for you to view a list of command switches for QRes by enteringQRes.exein the Command Prompt.

Then youll be able to change the screen resolution by pressing a handy key combination.

The QRes resolution command

Erasing the batch files desktop shortcut will also delete the hotkey you added to it.

The QRes.exe command

A QRes script file

The All files option

The Desktop (create shortcut) option

The Properties option

The Shortcut key box