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Windows 10 Getting a Game Mode That Would Improve Game Performance - Report (gamespot.com)
Microsoft may have plans to improve gaming experience on Windows 10. The speculation comes after long time watcher @h0x0d found a new "gamemode.dll" in the latest Windows 10 developer build, reports GameSpot. The feature appears to allow Windows 10 to adjust CPU and GPU resources when running a game to allocate more power for the game that's running instead of toward any background apps. From the article: The feature will reportedly launch as part of the Creators update and will be enabled for Windows Insider users soon. What's unclear is exactly which games this is compatible with. It's possible it could be limited to only to those downloaded from the Windows Store, or it might be much more far-reaching. We should know more once Windows Insiders testers get their hands on the feature.
...you found a .dll. And you HOPE this is what its for? Ok, cool story bro. ALIENS!!!!
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Wanna hear something scary?
I had an issue with my OS and contact MS support today. As the tech was doing his thing remotely I asked him about windows 10 (I run 7)
I asked him why had microsoft created a spy OS that is so invasive into user privacy...and what he said kinda made sense and I hope he's wrong.
He said that Win 7 and 8 already allow MS to collect a lot of the telemetry and data win 10 collects but in win 10 you have a visible user setting to turn it off.
In other words, he said that it gives users more control than they ever had before.
IF he was telling the truth then that means Microsoft has been collecting more than it needed on all its users for a very very long time and now due to bulk data collect and privacy concerns had to give users a choice? -spooky.
In Windows 7 you can choose what update to install and avoid the patch that add spyware to your OS. The host file also works reasonably well against unwanted adware and telemetry. Also, Windows 7 does not force updates on to you, which means it will not restart the computer when you are writing your thesis and kill the computations that you have been running for days.
The people who are complaining about Windows 10 on Slashdot are mostly move to Linux anyway.
It's a trojan horse. They added the telemetry to 7/8 as a recommended update at some point. Now he wants to upsell you on Win10 offering some level of user control over the telemetry. Thing is, you don't have to download the telemetry update. I certainly didn't. And the "user control over telemetry" is percentage-based, certainly not an absolute value.
IE: Users can control 25% of the 1000 points of telemetry data MS collects about you Vs. 0% control of the 20 points of telemetry data in 7/8.
You're still getting spied on way more than before.
A recent leak of the Windows 10 Creators Update build 14997 suggest an option to "pause" updates for up to 35 days is coming. It's not yet clear, though, whether this will be an Enterprise only update or if it'll also be coming to the consumer versions.
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