Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft's New Windows 10 Game Mode Will Maximize Gaming Performance (mspoweruser.com)
Microsoft has started officially testing a new Game Mode feature in Windows 10. From a report: Traces of the new option were found back in December, but the most recent test build of Windows 10 (15007) includes Game Mode in the Xbox app. MSPoweruser has supplied some screenshots of how you can enable the option, but Microsoft has not yet officially unveiled Game Mode for everyone to test. Microsoft's description lists the feature as a mode to let a PC make gaming the "top priority to improve your game's quality." It's still not clear exactly how Game Mode will improve gaming performance, but it's likely that Windows 10 will simply suppress system processes and other apps from taking too many CPU, GPU, and RAM resources away from the primary game being played.
It was confirmed a little while back that this 'Game Mode' will only work on MS Storefront games, like Forza Horizon 3, Gears 4, etc. So it's going to be very limited for most PC gamers.
Game Mode will only work for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) games so it will not benefit any of the games that would really benefit from it.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Seriously, stop accepting Microsoft excuses and accepting their constant excuses. Windows 10 FAILED. It's Windows Vista again, but this time they're doubling down instead of cutting their loses on the worse of it and fixing it in the next edition they're just doubling down.
You do know that they did the same with Vista? Right? Windows 7 is just a re-branded version of Windows Vista. In other words, Microsoft did double-down on Vista.
Vista flopped because the PC manufacturers didn't believe Microsoft on the release date so they dragged their asses in the development of Windows drivers for the new driver model. Then when Vista was released, manufacturers were caught with their pants down. People upgrading to Vista ended up with blue-screens or just couldn't get their hardware to work. Of course, everyone blamed Microsoft.
By the time Windows 7 was released, most people had upgraded to new hardware and manufacturers had Vista/Win7 drivers available. So it was a much easier transition.