Loadout monitors a Windows PC and applies gaming-focused optimizations without turning the system into a black box. Before changing power, registry, process, or cleanup state, it records enough information to restore the original state.
- Reversible by design: every system mutation has a corresponding restore path.
- Preview before action: cleanup targets expose their scope, size, and risk level.
- No telemetry: Loadout performs no analytics or background network calls.
- Auditable: system operations live in a UI-independent core covered by tests.
- Failure-aware: operations return explicit results and emit structured local logs.
| Area | What it provides | Safety model |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring | CPU, GPU, memory, temperature, storage, and system inventory | Read-only |
| Surge | Coordinated power, memory, and background-process optimization | Snapshot and restore |
| Processes | Resource-heavy process discovery and suspend/resume | Reversible |
| Tweaks | Curated Windows and gaming registry settings | Original values backed up |
| Cleanup | Categorized preview of temporary files, caches, and Recycle Bin | Risk labels and confirmation |
State, backups, and rolling logs are stored under %APPDATA%\Loadout\.
Loadout.sln
`-- src/
|-- Loadout.Core/ Monitoring, optimization, cleanup, and backup logic
|-- Loadout.App/ WPF application using MVVM and dependency injection
`-- Loadout.Core.Tests/ xUnit coverage for reversible business operations
The application uses .NET 9, WPF-UI, CommunityToolkit.Mvvm, dependency injection, and Serilog. The core project has no WPF dependency, which keeps the system logic independently testable.
Requirements: Windows 10 or 11 and the .NET 9 SDK.
git clone https://github.com/Zedoww/loadout.git
cd loadout
dotnet restore Loadout.sln
dotnet build Loadout.sln --configuration Release --no-restore
dotnet test Loadout.sln --configuration Release --no-build
dotnet run --project src/Loadout.AppLoadout requests administrator privileges because Windows requires elevation for power-plan, registry, process, restore-point, and hardware-sensor access.
Download the ZIP and matching SHA-256 checksum from GitHub Releases. Verify the archive before extracting it:
Get-FileHash .\loadout-win-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256
Get-Content .\loadout-win-x64.zip.sha256Release builds are currently unsigned. Windows may therefore display a SmartScreen warning. The release workflow and source remain public so that the binary can be reproduced locally.
- CI restores, builds, and runs the complete test suite on every pull request.
- CodeQL analyzes C# changes and dependencies are tracked by Dependabot.
- System-changing services are tested with injected paths and controlled state.
- Security reports are handled according to SECURITY.md.
- Per-game optimization profiles
- In-game performance monitoring
- Reversible startup and service management
- Historical dashboard charts
- Signed Windows release packages
See CONTRIBUTING.md. Every contribution that changes system state must include a tested restore path.
MIT - copyright Allan Seddi and contributors.