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Windows 10 Is Adding an Ultimate Performance Mode For Pros (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: When you're creating 3D models or otherwise running intensive tasks, you want to wring every ounce of performance out of your PC as possible. It's a good thing, then, that Microsoft has released a Windows 10 preview build in the Fast ring that includes a new Ultimate Performance mode if you're running Pro for Workstations. As the name implies, this is a step up for people for whom even the High Performance mode isn't enough -- it throws power management out the window to eliminate "micro-latencies" and boost raw speed. You can set it yourself, but PC makers will have the option of shipping systems with the feature turned on. Ultimate Performance isn't currently available for laptops or tablets, but Microsoft suggests that could change.
Simply disable Windows Defender.
As if performance problems on Windows were caused by micro-latencies...
Right, let's reclaim those 1-2% of performance, all while the antivirus is using half of the CPU cores to continuously scan the machine for viruses...
For performance, the best fix would be to simply use something else.
I want my computer to run slow. Please leave Ultimate Performance off, maybe insert some extra latency in a few places just because... This is hardly a new requirement. For the work I do, Windows has always been looked past because it couldn't get out of it's own way when running high-performance or near real time code. It will never do actual real time (Microsoft could make that, but it wouldn't be called Windows), but why has this "Ultra Extreme Actually Fast" mode been so impossible in the past?
Still gathering a ton of data, which at the very least will impact network throughput.
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
And racing stripes? You know, so you can tell the difference...
As telemetry will still be on.
So Microsoft has been slowing down our PCs all this time based on what they feel we should draw for power? This will affect far more people and businesses than Apple slowing down phones, I want in on this lawsuit.
How about Microsoft actually test their Windows 10 shit and fix the bugs before worrying about features and tweaks. It is getting real old having everybody I know hounding me to fix their fucked up Windows 10 machine that broke something else on update. I'll bet the Geek Squad is cleaning up.
Windows is terrible now. It keeps rebooting all the time, you have to keep putting off updates for later.
And even with 16GB of memory it manages to somehow run out of memory with nothing open.
Instead of any useful work.
I need performance-based access to unimaginably important strategic platforms.
I used to work with a sales manager who talked about selling the quote-unquote double overhead gofasters to Rubes who did not understand that a working product was a standard feature. This sounds like something similar.
Ultra performance... meh...Wake me up when there is an ultra crappy performance mode.
I like my computers like I like my women, slow and full of viruses.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
And now wants money to turn off that "feature"?
Disable data collection and spying on us. Frees up CPU resources as well as network resources.
And I'd dare say that it would be easy to implement, no tweaking necessary. All it takes is flipping a few compiler switches...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It doesn't matter how much performance they can wrangle when the OS still forces reboots for updates in the middle of compiling, encoding, rendering, etc.
You can't "just save" some things.
for some of the more linux-savvy slashdotters performance levels might seem abstract and vague. as a Microsoft engineer, I can explain these pretty quickly.
regular performance: Windows performs per normal with some features and functions disabled. this is for your protection, as the tome of windows cannot be simply 'closed' once opened.
high performance: eliminates microlatencies caused by the thin veil of reality that separates you from pure, raw windows. High performance mode switches cortanas voice to Vin Diesel, and the background to a moistened and slightly unstable steve ballmer who has a random chance to shout 'DEVELOPERS' when clicking any item.
ultimate performance: God is dead and you now sit upon the throne in this wasteland of pure and unadulterated windows. The seals have been unlocked and the runes aligned as you see once and for all the true blistering power of Minesweeper. Cortana is replaced with a cursed portrait of W.E.B. Du-Buois into which you whisper your darkest desires (and save your passwords.) The startup sound is the entire 16 hour watergate deposition. the shutdown sound is a sacrosanct quote of your last words before you die as theyve been divined from the future.
Also, SSH is enabled.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Finally Teams will be able to get all the CPU it needs just tor me to type in a message. Damn thing spins up my i7 NUC's fan per keystroke.
... you've reinvented the Turbo button from the PC/AT. Press it once, always leave it on.
It still requires the use of data stealing, always surveilling, Windows. No thanks.
I don't think MS knows what low latency means. Sometimes a context switch can take 800 ms on a Windows machine. It doesn't matter which version - they all have craptastic latency problems.
I've been tweaking any box I run that requires Windows using recommendations from Black Viper for YEARS! It's a handy resource. It's amazing seeing everything that is running in the background.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Because OneDrive has replaced antivirus as the single biggest performance drain on my computer. I regularly find OD pegging one of my cores at 100% load.
I need performance-based access to unimaginably important strategic platforms.
Which is it, League of Legends or World of Warcraft?
That's a good start Microsoft. Now they need to invent a way that you can toggle this feature on and off with a physical button. They could put the button on the case, but they'd have to put a word above it to describe what it does... Maybe "Turbo"? Yes, they should invent the turbo button. That's forward thinking!!!!
cpu mining is dead and GPU is not so hot as well.
If Windows isn't already tuned to give you raw horse power and performance, then switch to Linux based OS.
"Whatâ(TM)s new in Build 17101 & Build 17604
Input Improvements
Emoji design updates: Based on your feedback and to improve consistency, we've made adjustments to the design of some of our emoji.
Emoji search comes to more languages: Earlier in RS4, we updated the Emoji Panel to support browsing and picking emoji in many new locales. With today's build, we're bringing search support to more locales too! Now you can find an emoji by keyword in over 150 locales, including English (Great Britain), French (France), German (Germany), Spanish (Spain), and more. This will help you get the emoji you want easily and quickly."
So there's valuable improvements for ordinary users, not just the Pros.
No sig today...
Donald, is that you? You somehow typoed "twitter.com"...
Please, bitches. Diablo III.
If you're a professional and using Windows, you've already lost. There is no saving you from using such an inadequate and Orwellian operating system that sends all your information back to the Corporation and Government.
With this ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE RAWRRRRR mode, information will be sent more often and flagged for review automatically, making you a target for surveillance by the alphabet agencies.
I don't know that I've seen a product update in the past couple of months that doesn't have emoji updates.
All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
It's one faster.
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There you are spamming amazon and youtube affiliate links with yet another fake account, you revenue stream hogging disgusting fat sexist tube of lard, Christopher Dale Reimer!
You can be sure I will be watching this fake account too. I know this is you because you told me you were working on your freepass 11 file server and you are so dumb that you can't even masquerade yourself properly.
Now, I told you I was out of meds last week and you didn't even care to contact me you lazy fucker.
How many times do I have to express the emergency of the situation??????
The python click script you wrote for my pheromone revenue stream web site suddenly stopped to work!!!!!!
You fucking incompetent python script writer!!!
When it works, I get 4000+ clicks a day on my pheromone revenue stream web site but only 5 or 6 without it!!!!
Now, it seems like you dont care and that you have abandoned me you heartless fucking pig!
Bonus:
Here is a story that creimer told me when convincing me what a hard life he had:
The tree was him and the tree knot was his butt hole!
So, his uncle packed his fat ass with lard and with his cock! Not that it makes much of a difference but anyway, there it is!
Signed:
Ethell, The girl that used to love you and now hates you, burn in hell where you belong you sexist pig!
Don't click on his homepage link! creimer is trying to get you to subscribe automatically to his youtube channel and make money off you!
CREIMER' SUBMISSIONS UPDATE: /. so make sure to go to:
Note also that creimer is trying to regain karma by getting his submissions published as articles on
https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
https://slashdot.org/~criss69
https://slashdot.org/~Anonymou...
https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
https://slashdot.org/~ILoveFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IHateFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IAteFatC...
https://slashdot.org/~ITapeFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IApeFatC...
https://slashdot.org/~IPrayFat...
https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
and mod down his submissions as well. The great thing is that you don't even need mod points to mod down a submission, just click on the "minus" icon!
Yes, believe it or not, creimer owns all the above sock puppet accounts. It is a mystery why Slashdot management tolerates it!
creimer wrote:
I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!
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Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise /. will go to hell again!
Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost /. users to accidentally mod up.
creimer wrote:
All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.
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C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."
But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!
Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.
Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Creimy's real pictures:
Before the sex change:
https://ibb.co/cc7Ddw
After the sex change:
https://ibb.co/gVad65
Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:
It's funny because you could just as easily fake all the views, clicks, and subscriptions you're depending on slashdot for. It's such a small small number that youtube wouldn't ever notice. Besides your "subscriber link" trick is already dishonest enough to get you a strike if some minimum wage tubemonkey decides they need to pad their weekly numbers, people routinely get random strikes for insanely minuscule transgressions.
Like why don't you just get all the passwords for your google sockpuppet accounts and game your numbers over a proxy? Or ask your friends to give you that initial bump?
I get what you're doing, a small number of clicks and shit will ensure you're near the top of the list if you generate content on topics that aren't on the social radar yet.... but what you're doing here is building a huge embarrassing internet footprint. If you ever get any sort of popularity the trolls will come. Find what you've done here, and blog about your every tiny mistake. It'll be funny because you'll get eaten alive by other assholes trying to grift for their own clickbait pennies with articles about your child bride fixations and creepy female impersonations.
This! exactly This! One thousand times!
I am an on-line marketer myself and creimer has been burnt for a long time because of what I emphasized in your text above. The fucker is just too stupid to realize it.
You would put the fucker in an extra large boiling tank with warm water and turn on the heat and the fucker would be too dumb to get out if he could when it gets too hot.
creimer already pissed off many of us by bringing attention to friendly advertising plugs on Slashdot, especially when posted as AC and the Slashdot moderators have become intolerant to posts containing friendly links, thus hurting us all. AC posts on Slashdot used to generate more clicks before creimer decided to go crazy.
Everybody hates creimer, especially other online marketers and although I would never do anything illegal, I hear other marketers might when it comes to creimer.
Good luck dumb ass!
Option available on some ancient mac programs in the System 6-9 era. You can force quit the Finder (vague analogous to Windows Explorer, the standard built-in file browser) so that you can run those programs that need just a little bit more memory and processor time.
This reminds me of that.
-- "This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
Let me know when you support Ludicrous Speed! ;)
Will $CURRENT_YEAR be the year of the Linux Desktop?
You could always roll back to 7. 7 is a lot faster on my rig than 10. YMMV thou
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
There are additions for people using everyday PCs. Like Samsung, Microsoft is moving toward more familiar emoji. It also helps you search for those emoji in more languages, and provides you more control over file system access for Universal Windows Platform apps. As a rule, though, this preview is aimed at pros who want to see how well a workstation can run when there's nothing holding it back.
We'll make great pets
fuck man creimer really has no friends
Sorry but your copy & paste is shitty and you should feel bad :(
I've seen those words before, but never in the same sentence.
Microsoft would turn off or disable all the silly unnecessary bullshit running in the background.
Cortana, all the Telemetry crap, and probably a big chunk of all the running processes that are enabled by default.
That'll show em. I bet FcLm is crying now.
There was more than one turbo button.
Believe Team Creimer! Believe!
You are not believing strongly enough. If you do believe in your dreams strongly enough, those noob creimertard trolls will vanish automatically, your youtube channel will go up to be the most popular youtube channel ever and you will get rich like creimy the mountain.
Never let any naysayer get in the way of your dreams Team Creimer!
Team Creimer dreams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I have just closed my eyes again
Climbed aboard the Team Creimer train
Driver take away my worries of today
And leave tomorrow behind
Team Creimer, I believe you can get me through the night
Team Creimer, I believe we can reach the morning light
Fly me high through the starry skies
Or maybe to an astral plane
Cross the highways of fantasy
Help me to forget today's pain
Team Creimer, I believe you can get me through the night
Team Creimer, I believe we can reach the morning light
Though the dawn may be coming soon
There still may be some time
Fly me away to the bright side of the moon
And meet me on the other side
Team Creimer, I believe you can get me through the night
Team Creimer, I believe we can reach the morning light
Here are some posts from creimer's old accounts. I'll start with his love of child brides.
If all my assets were liquidated, I would still have enough cash to buy a new car and head off to Mexico to find a chica to marry.
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You're aware that are some states in the U.S. that allow underage marriage as young as 14 years old?
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As for my comment, I've heard stories of engineers retiring at 50, moving to Mexico and marrying underage girls. Since I work with ex-military, the Philippines is a popular retirement spot for marrying underage girls as well. It's all about getting the most bang for your retirement dollars.
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That only works if you retire to Mexico, build a mansion (by local standards), marry an underage sweet thing and bequeath all your possessions to the village.
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You need to be more specific. I wrote 3,000+ comments this year.
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Nah... I just do it to piss off my trolls and make coffee money off of them.
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We have different priorities. You want to climb the corporate ladder. I want to own the corporate ladder.
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Your bitch licks your balls. Most people don't brag about practicing bestiality. Is there a reason why you married a dog and not a goat?
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My employers don't care about what my Slashdot trolls think. Now go off and lick your balls somewhere else.
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iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete. As a Sprint customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always offer me a new iPhone if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.
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Miracle workers are never afraid to ask for a second opinion. Supervisor gave me his opinion ? and a mess to clean up. Lesson learned from this incident: if something isn't quite broken, break it.
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So you can turn around call me a liar again? People have been playing that game with me for years.
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Based on what I've read about Uber, he need to tell the boys to clean up their locker room behavior, zip up their pants, and attend sensitivity training until everyone agrees that women are not sexual objects.
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Which doesn't violate the Slashdot TOS. If you got a problem with that, take it up with management.
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This year I've posted ~4,000 comments.
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I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the
In case anybody's wondering why the mode is disabled for laptops, it's because quite a few literally *can't* run for extended periods of time at full-bore speed without overheating. For YEARS, companies like Toshiba were advertising specs based on CPU specs, but underclocking them behind the scenes to reduce heat. Most current laptops can (mostly) run at full-speed without crashing, but will gradually cook their electrolytic capacitors & other components to death if you insist.
Now, the big question is... what's Microsoft's definition of "laptop", and how does Windows decide? Is a mini-ITX "desktop" with mobile i5 a desktop or a laptop? How about a Clevo-made gaming beast with a "desktop" i7 & discrete (but semi-proprietary) graphics card that -- electronically -- is still PCIe (with nonstandard form factor)?
Not really. For typical desktop use running apps that don't necessarily TRY to be optimized for multithreading, Windows generally "tries harder" to put multiple cores to good use ANYWAY.
The traditional Linux attitude has been, "if you want to take advantage of multiple cores, write your software properly." Windows just assumes (correctly) that most apps DON'T try, and does its best to at least multithread the *rest* of the system (including libraries). It doesn't always succeed, but it tends to get accidentally-good results more often than Linux does.
Where Windows USED to fuck up badly was memory usage. Simply put, older versions were WAY too eager to swap out to virtual RAM, even if you had 16+ gigabytes. As a practical matter, without registry-tweaking in semi-undocumented ways, it was almost IMPOSSIBLE to get Windows to use more than a gig of RAM for any one app, or 4 gigs system-wide, without having Windows start aggressively paging out virtual memory, unless you disabled paging altogether.
I believe it happened because the logic for virtual-memory handling was intertwined with the logic for implementing PAE. Prior to ~Win8, there were two operating modes: one for low-memory systems whose history went all the way back to Windows95 (and allowed it to limp with a mere 4mb of ram), and one for high-memory systems where PAE was assumed to be used (even though Microsoft ultimately disabled PAE in most systems).
When 64-bit Windows arrived, Microsoft started with the "high-memory" code, ripped out the PAE-implementation logic, but ran out of time/developers and left the PAE-imposed LIMITS in place. It wasn't until ~2014 that Microsoft finally got around to refactoring it to remove those limits. And even now, many of those limits still exist by default unless you disable them via registry keys because some popular older apps crash if they're disabled.
Don't believe me? Do a virgin-install of 64-bit Windows 10 on a new PC with 32gb of RAM, then TRY to get Windows to physically use more than 4 gigs of it without swapping (and without registry-hacking or disabling virtual memory altogether). What Windows NOW does by default is to swap pages to UPPER ram, with slightly better logic to decide when it needs to swap those "paged pages" to the ssd/hard drive. I think it also now can do most of it via register-manipulation instead of copying. But at the end of the day, Windows STILL defaults to treating your glorious 32gb ocean of ram as a glorified ramdisk unless you force it to do otherwise.
Some of you might remember the PC/XT and AT clones back on the day that had the flashy "TURBO" button on the front that would increase or even double your processor clock speed, and was marketed as something of an upgrade. The reality of it was that this switch actually cut your clock speed in half. Tons of old DOS programs used to just run as fast as the processor would let them, so older games would run at ridiculous speeds on these newer machines with their sweeet 16mhz processors or whatever. Manufacturers needed a way to slow the processor down to make the older programs usable, so they added the switch. Normal position had the clock speed set to half of maximum, or similar, while pressing that big TURBO button didn't really do anything except let the processors use it's full speed. I know this is different, but it just sort of seems like the same type of bs.
\/\/oobie
Stuff it Pocacuntass
How about dealing with the basics first, like that ability to walk away from the computer with your multi-application state arranged as you see fit and return WITHOUT FINDING THAT ALL YOUR PREPARATION HAS BEEN LOST BECAUSE WINDOWS USES A DEAD-MAN SWITCH METAPHOR when asking for permission to reboot to install updates!
What the hell is wrong with you people?
Requiem for the American Dream
Never go full Windows.