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.

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

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.