Thursday, December 29th 2016

Upcoming Windows 10 Build to Feature a "Game Mode"

An upcoming build of Windows 10 operating system, build 14997, reportedly features a component ominously named "gamemode.dll." This sparked off speculation of the operating system featuring a special runlevel that's optimized for PC gaming. It's likely that in game mode, the operating system prioritizes CPU, memory, and GPU allocation to games being run, and sheds unwanted processes to free up memory.

Sources tell "Windows Central" that the game mode could allocate hardware resources to a game with the efficiency of an Xbox One console, which means only the bare minimum services needed to correctly play the game will be enabled. At this point it's unclear if the Game Mode will benefit only games built on the UWP, or even the vast Win32 ecosystem of games distributed by Steam, Origin, and UPlay.
Source: Windows Central
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31 Comments on Upcoming Windows 10 Build to Feature a "Game Mode"

#26
semantics
EntropyZFor my i5 2400, it is already messed up by for post 2015 AAA titles, because console ports coming to PC suck balls. Hyper-Threaded cores would only delay the inevitable. And best Intel offerings are only 40-50% better than what I got, and they cost 4-6x more.


Hurry up Linux and give us better game support. The Windows platform is bloated and restrictive, old hardware that still survives to this day becomes obsolete for me way quicker than it should.

We have such powerful hardware around nowadays and it is really underused. Because we totally need abstraction layers, stopgaps, DRM and all that good ****.
we do need abstraction layers, i like it that my programs no longer cause bsods like no tomorrow
birdieThis is 100% BS unless you're gaming and transcoding video to x264/x265 simultaneously which no sane person will ever do.

It might have a modicum of sense in the era of single core CPUs but it's long gone.
Isn't that just shadow play.
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#27
mcraygsx
DammeronInstead of such crippled solutions, why not just make the whole OS being less of a burden on our hardware?
IF they make XBOX go away. It is a Golden OS besides Windows 7 and 8.1 for gamers.
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#28
AsRock
TPU addict
FrickI doubt it will turn the PC into an Xbox. That would be pretty amazing, but unlikely.
Many years late too.
EntropyZFor my i5 2400, it is already messed up by for post 2015 AAA titles, because console ports coming to PC suck balls. Hyper-Threaded cores would only delay the inevitable. And best Intel offerings are only 40-50% better than what I got, and they cost 4-6x more.


Hurry up Linux and give us better game support. The Windows platform is bloated and restrictive, old hardware that still survives to this day becomes obsolete for me way quicker than it should.

We have such powerful hardware around nowadays and it is really underused. Because we totally need abstraction layers, stopgaps, DRM and all that good ****.
Still waiting 15+ years later.
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#29
Slizzo
mcraygsxIF they make XBOX go away. It is a Golden OS besides Windows 7 and 8.1 for gamers.
It's pretty awesome being able to pick up and play Forza Horizon 3 on my PC or Xbox at will...
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#30
zo0lykas
anyway bad for me, last week installed windows 10 to check how is drivers for my crossfire r9 290, some games still have issues :-( so i back to windows 7
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#31
matar
Great step forward.
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