Windows 10 Game Mode these results look promising

shankly1985 · 26 Mar 2017 at 23:59

Microsoft is adding Game mode within its next version of Windows 10 called Creators Edition. Mode is designed to remove CPU bottlenecks by Freeing up system background processes from the OS while you running a Full screen game. These means if you already GPU limited I wouldn't expect any improvements here but if you CPU limited check this GTA 5 benchmark out Looks very promising indeed.

Hotwired · 27 Mar 2017 at 00:48

Nice of them to offer to close unnecessary background processes in their own OS.

Will this require paying them or will it be an update.

hyperseven · 27 Mar 2017 at 00:53

Hotwired said:
Nice of them to offer to close unnecessary background processes in their own OS.

Will this require paying them or will it be an update.

It's free, contained in the next major Win10 update from the 1607 anniversary one.

This was already in the last few insiders builds.

shankly1985 · 27 Mar 2017 at 01:02

Hotwired said:
Nice of them to offer to close unnecessary background processes in their own OS.

Will this require paying them or will it be an update.

You gota rememer here the Windows OS is used for more than just gaming. It will always have background processes aimed at everything. The fact we getting a Game mode is something I very welcome tbh

Narj · 27 Mar 2017 at 01:42

Way overdue. It's always been fun disabling services only to find that further down the line it breaks something new you want to do. Only you can't figure out exactly which component is the problem.. :mad:

almoststew1990 · 27 Mar 2017 at 07:10

These results are very different from an earlier test...

http://www.pcgamer.com/windows-10-game-mode-tested/

I hope they're correct though!

DONOHUE07 · 27 Mar 2017 at 08:39

Wow, I was not expecting the gains to be that high, impressive and overdue. Combining this and vulkan my aging fx8350 might have a little more life left in it

Brazo · 27 Mar 2017 at 08:46

almoststew1990 said:
These results are very different from an earlier test...

http://www.pcgamer.com/windows-10-game-mode-tested/

I hope they're correct though!

That test certainly looks more 'right'! When I've checked sys resources during gaming it's taking up at most a few %. 20 extra fps well it's almost April fools day!

TNA · 27 Mar 2017 at 08:46

This does seem to be an best case scenario thing. But any free performance when playing is welcome. Let us hope it is something we can turn on and off whenever we want, not just something for games purchased from windows store.

When is the public release due?

zia · 27 Mar 2017 at 10:07

Wonder if this mode removes the 4gb gpu vram restriction on dx9 games namely modded skyrim?

zia

TheVoice · 27 Mar 2017 at 10:22

zia said:
Wonder if this mode removes the 4gb gpu vram restriction on dx9 games namely modded skyrim?

zia

I doubt it, that'd be well beyond the scope of what Game Mode is aiming to achieve.

edscdk · 27 Mar 2017 at 10:45

those screen shots are not the same, there are more cars in the two shots showing lower FPS ( I can only see the top 2 screen shots).. this only proves two different scenes in a game can have different FPS.. I expect the gains will be nothing like those screen shots show...

Glanza · 27 Mar 2017 at 10:45

Great if it works right, though I suspect more issues arising and it starting to cause weird and wonderful problems once they role it out.

Ayahuasca · 27 Mar 2017 at 11:15

There's no chance anyone on a decent machine is getting a 20fps boost from this, you'd have to be gaming near the limits of your CPU and RAM for this to benefit you that much.

nox_uk · 27 Mar 2017 at 11:17

Ayahuasca said:
There's no chance anyone on a decent machine is getting a 20fps boost from this, you'd have to be gaming near the limits of your CPU and RAM for this to benefit you that much.

exactly what i was thinking

Rroff · 27 Mar 2017 at 11:18

zia said:
Wonder if this mode removes the 4gb gpu vram restriction on dx9 games namely modded skyrim?

zia

Hmm I've seen 5GB VRAM utilisation with a modded Skyrim using SKSE and ENB series when running at resolutions over 4K.

EDIT: Ah its a Windows 10 thing - still using 7 here on any system I actually want to use.

picnic · 27 Mar 2017 at 11:50

shankly1985 said:
while you running a Full screen game

Will it have to be full screen? I often use FSX, which is CPU bound, but always in windowed mode so I can run vpilot / teamspeak etc and see their windows.

hyperseven · 27 Mar 2017 at 12:36

Ayahuasca said:
There's no chance anyone on a decent machine is getting a 20fps boost from this, you'd have to be gaming near the limits of your CPU and RAM for this to benefit you that much.

So by your own admission, there is a chance

Even if it's just a couple of frames it's a bonus. People go to war in the GPU forums over differences like this.

On the downside just another metric to add into benchmarks to argue about.

shankly1985 · 27 Mar 2017 at 12:39

edscdk said:
those screen shots are not the same, there are more cars in the two shots showing lower FPS ( I can only see the top 2 screen shots).. this only proves two different scenes in a game can have different FPS.. I expect the gains will be nothing like those screen shots show...

Noticed that last night after I posted, if you watch tho they is scene that match up like this one.

shankly1985 · 27 Mar 2017 at 12:41

TNA said:
This does seem to be an best case scenario thing. But any free performance when playing is welcome. Let us hope it is something we can turn on and off whenever we want, not just something for games purchased from windows store.

When is the public release due?

It can be disabled

its just a setting within Windows 10 settings. April 11th I believe
It will work with all full screen games

picnic said:
Will it have to be full screen? I often use FSX, which is CPU bound, but always in windowed mode so I can run vpilot / teamspeak etc and see their windows.

Not sure just what I read it's for full screen only.