Wednesday, January 25th 2017
Microsoft Confirms Upcoming "Game Mode" on Windows 10 "Creators" Update
In a bid to improve overall gaming experience on their Windows 10 operating system, Microsoft will introduce a new feature on their next big OS update. "Game Mode" is Microsoft's take on a modern, console-like take on the CPU and GPU of any given user system, so long as they are running the as of yet upcoming "Creators" update for Windows 10.
Essentially, "Game Mode" is an optional setting which dedicates more of the available CPU and GPU resources to a given gaming application - whether on Windows' new UWP or the good-old Win32 games (though Microsoft was clear in that they expect the feature to have more of an impact on UWP games simply because "Game Mode" then has more information on the game's requirements and performance profiles). This means that less of your system's resources will be available to and used by background tasks, and should make itself visible not so much on peak frame-rates, but on a arguably more important metric: a more consistent, less "stuttery" frame-rate.
"Game Mode" will automatically set CPU core affinity and thread priority, thus reducing thread and performance contention from otherwise non-essential background apps and processes; on the GPU side, more time slices. "Game Mode" will play along with other technologies, such as NVIDIA's GeForce Experience and, one expects, AMD's ReLive, though the interaction between the upcoming game mode and, for example, AMD's Chill features are still to be completely clarified.
Microsoft has been heavily updating the gaming capabilities of Windows, pushing it closer and closer to the gaming environment on their Xbox One console. Game Mode appears to be another nice addition to Microsoft's gaming approach, though, and it should be available tomorrow in the next Fast Ring build of the Windows Insider Preview.
Essentially, "Game Mode" is an optional setting which dedicates more of the available CPU and GPU resources to a given gaming application - whether on Windows' new UWP or the good-old Win32 games (though Microsoft was clear in that they expect the feature to have more of an impact on UWP games simply because "Game Mode" then has more information on the game's requirements and performance profiles). This means that less of your system's resources will be available to and used by background tasks, and should make itself visible not so much on peak frame-rates, but on a arguably more important metric: a more consistent, less "stuttery" frame-rate.
Microsoft has been heavily updating the gaming capabilities of Windows, pushing it closer and closer to the gaming environment on their Xbox One console. Game Mode appears to be another nice addition to Microsoft's gaming approach, though, and it should be available tomorrow in the next Fast Ring build of the Windows Insider Preview.
77 Comments on Microsoft Confirms Upcoming "Game Mode" on Windows 10 "Creators" Update
(By the way, if you have no idea what Intel ME and/or AMD PSP are, do yourself a favour and look them up.)
People's privacy was gone way before windows 10 came out.
I however welcome the idea of a game mode, and everyone wants to piss n moan about it?
"Then don't use it" Simple enough o_O
Edit @W1zzard I posted this 10 hrs ago with your new IOS app but it showed it sent but not till I fired up my android and seen my post was greyed out from not being sent from my ipad ... Bug perhaps?
On the other hand, I've had to reinstall Windows 7 on a relative's computer and Windows Update wouldn't update at all. Nothing from MS helped, so I resorted to using a non MS tool that I read about on... stackexchange. Thanks, Microsoft.
What's happening here is that Microsoft is parking programs, services, and every other process on certain cores. Borderlands on cores 0-5, and every other program on cores 6-7, for example. It'll give the game exclusive access to the cores its assigned to without any other background process being run on it, which may help with performance. Nothing is being shut down. It's really just them changing the behaviour of the scheduler while you're running a game.
Of course, being a generic setup that is intended to run across everything, there's no way to configure how many cores Windows may reserve for Game Mode, or how many cores must be left open for specific applications that might run alongside it. Perhaps the feature will get better in future versions of Windows 10, if enough feedback is submitted about the feature.
More here: www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-game-mode-6-of-your-burning-questions-answered
After you do that it works...
(KB3138612), not others you might find in your google searches but I see you are unwilling to try anything to resolve this issue so let's leave it at that...
So, I said "ages ago" because, to me, almost a year ago is that when it comes to computers:www.dropbox.com/s/7d8o8jf99bny3mx/KB3138612.PNG?dl=0
So yeah, I have that KB installed, I reinstalled it when first witnessing my update issues, to no avail. Like I said before though, we're polluting this thread with these off-topic comments, so let's stop doing it. That being said, you are, of course, more than welcome to discuss the issue to your heart's content with me via PM.