We already posted news on the Game Mode for Windows 10, but it was a little uncertain as to what it exactly does. Well, we can answer that now. The idea behind Game Mode is consistency, rather than ... Details Windows Game Mode Explained
Sounds great, lets see if implementation will be as effective and will have benefit on platforms other then UWP.
My system will probably see no improvement at all. With 8 cores and 16 threads running, everything is getting enough power anyway, which is exactly what I intended.
It'll still interrupt your gameplay session and update itself regardless, won't it? That's the reason I'm still not using Win10
So "Game Mode" basically devotes all processing power to game and putting everything else on lower priority. This is really terribly bad solution from what I can tell. For people who using other software with games like streaming or hosting a server in background it's a major f4ck up. Good thing its optional. It also proves the fact that Windows 10 is full of bloatware, that needs to be suspended to give more priority to game. They could just suspect that system bloatware... BUT NO! M$ also f4ck up all your running programs and tasks, cause users are retards and can't manage their own sh1t. You had 1 job M$.
Sooooo useless, this can be done with multipple light sofwares already. Microsoft should work on the bugged automatic management of the paging file lately causing crashes,AND BSODS NOT THIS BULL****...I was having strange freezes, with black screens in different times of the day. There are tons of people having this issue, and all thought it was a driver problem or ram problem. But no, it's the bugged automatic paging file. Need to set it manually and the problem maGically disappears....
I don't know what some people expected here. For a magical gaming mode that doubles your FPS? I don't know. Efficiency is the word for this mode if they get it to work right. It is good they are bringing it to Windows 10. Gaming as priority should have been here years ago. Isn't what some people doing with "gaming tweaks" killing services and altering registries? This time it will be a much better solution. As for the updates in the middle of a gaming session it never happened to me maybe because I set correctly my active hours and do the updates manually when I'm not playing I never saw it happening not even once. For those who are worrying about this Creator's is bringing more choices for updates. Among them an option to stop updates for 35 days.
So as we expect, they will limit background task and will be only for "tested" games (so windows store and everything what Microsoft choose, you will not have rights to choose) Still Windows 7 better, there is not many task to disable, running fast, and directx12 working (with hack)
There really is no difference in performance from Windows 7 to Windows 10. What you are going to run into though, is at least with Intel and Kaby Lake for example you're going to randomly get the Watch Dog BSOD in Windows 7 and 8. As well as if there are any new extensions for architectures that can bring performance benefits, Windows 7 and 8 will not be able to understand it. And no, there is no DX12 hack for Windows 7. DX12 relies too much on dlls and kernel extensions to be forced on an older OS.
Nothing better than MSMG ToolKit https://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/50572-MSMG-ToolKit to create a custom Windows 10 installation USB ISO without the bloatware. If you castrate too much some cumulative updates will fail to install, but can remedy by creating a new updated USB ISO and update from there, but must also have to disable internet during the procedure. Can get the updates from http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Home.aspx or https://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/57050-Windows-10-Hotfix-Repository NTLite is also interesting, but not free. https://www.ntlite.com/ There is also the Windows 10 Post Install Debloat [WIP] https://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/72801-Windows-10-Post-Install-Debloat-WIP I did not test yet because prefer the custom ISO.
I hope it is not the only reason you have not upgrade, because it don't. you just have to set update to be done when the pc is inactive ( inactivity time ). I suspect this is a bit more than just suspend process, but more in a sandbox style. threads used by the game will run on their own (reserved ), and other process will be deported to non used thread .
"Oh look at us, we're implementing game mode." Why not 15 years ago when every 1MB of RAM and CPU tick was important? So many years of gaming under Windows and they can't figure it out that it would be good idea to cut some other load while gaming. Just... pathetic.
So you will have to keep the Xbox Live services active for this to work?... Anyway I like how they say this will work best on games sold on their own platform and probably not in any noticeable manner on Steam. Microsoft just as dishonest and perfidious as ever. I'm still very salty about having to spend an extra hundred bucks to replace the PCB on my Xbox One fightstick because it is proprietary to Microsoft and only works for Xbox Live games such as Killer Instinct but doesn't on SFV ect..
Things like "Game Mode" always sound good in theory. The problem is games require many system resources and these resources can be different for each game. In practice, I would be willing to bet that there are many games out there utilizing system resources that Windows will shut down while in "Game Mode". This will cause many headaches. Although, those resource-intensive (NOT!) UWP games from the Windows store should benefit greatly. Imagine bejeweled in "Game Mode"! Such smooth video with less dropped frames and such... On the other hand, if Game Mode really works for most games (even non-UWP), the PC will increase the gaming performance gap between PCs and consoles immensely.
I keep seeing this stuff and I suspect it's all from people like this one that don't actually have 10 installed.I have never had it reboot in the middle of anything it always does it in the hours you set it to.I suppose if you kept ignoring the notification it might never tried that.
I've never had it happen to me, as I have auto updates disabled. But I did see it happen live on stream to a streamer I was watching over the weekend. It popped up mid stream (was in dutch so not sure exactly what the box said) he clicked out of it and continued to play. ~15m later his stream went offline in the middle of him playing. He came back after it rebooted. Seems to be more of a user issue in that case (ignoring the notifications etc).
