.NET has a few runtime knobs to control GC behavior at runtime: GC.TryStartNoGCRegion - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.gc.trystartnogcregi

.NET has a few runtime knobs to control GC behavior at runtime: GC.TryStartNoGCRegion - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.gc.trystartnogcregion https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.gc.tryst... GCSettings.LatencyMode - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/garbage-collection/latency https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/garbage-co... The latter is what Osu! uses when you load and start playing a map, to sustain 1000hz game loop. Well, it also avoids allocations within it like fire but it's going to apply to any non-soft realtime system.