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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.
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"?
No, but you can get aftermarket flames on Slashdot.
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.
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.
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.
Everybody you know is a problem. Neither of my Windows 10 machines have had update troubles for a year or more. One has never blue screened in over two years. The other, after installing an unusual compiler for an ARM project, it hated me for a day. My Surface Pro 3 fingerprint bug turned out to be a bad type cover.
Fix the people you know, buddy. You need better clients.
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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...
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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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."
Sounds like you have Malware. I put 32 GB in my system back home and rarely see it get above 8 GB in intense games even.
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.
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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.
Does the youtube auto subscribe button actually work? Youâ(TM)d think theyâ(TM)d be smart enough to check the relevant headers.
Sig: I stole this sig.
There are all kinds of turbo buttons. What's your point?
We'll make great pets
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
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?
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You know things are bad when you're trolling yourself...
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Aweeeee... you're such an adorable sociopath with all your insults. How's that superiority complex treating you? Did you get your daily quota of insults to make your fragile ego feel better? Maybe you should call your Mommy?
We'll make great pets
"everybody I know" being such a more credible sample. Yeah. I quantified my sample.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.