Wednesday, May 6th 2020
Windows 10 Game Mode Negatively Impacts "Call of Duty: Warzone" Performance
The "Game Mode" toggle Microsoft introduced with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709), is designed to improve gaming performance by prioritizing system resources for the game at the expensive of background processes, and preventing Windows Update from performing any automatic tasks (such as GPU driver updates, which would most certainly ruin your game). With "Call of Duty Warzone," however, this toggle appears to be having the opposite effect.
The Game Mode toggle reportedly causes Warzone to stutter, and sometimes even freeze. Apparently Windows 10 doesn't recognize it as a game. The issue affects users of both AMD and NVIDIA graphics hardware. It has so far been reproduced on the likes of the GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 980, RX 5700 XT, RX 570, RX 480, and R9 290. For now there's no workaround other than to simply disable Game Mode in Windows Settings. Find it in the "Gaming" section.
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The Game Mode toggle reportedly causes Warzone to stutter, and sometimes even freeze. Apparently Windows 10 doesn't recognize it as a game. The issue affects users of both AMD and NVIDIA graphics hardware. It has so far been reproduced on the likes of the GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 980, RX 5700 XT, RX 570, RX 480, and R9 290. For now there's no workaround other than to simply disable Game Mode in Windows Settings. Find it in the "Gaming" section.
22 Comments on Windows 10 Game Mode Negatively Impacts "Call of Duty: Warzone" Performance
cannot find page where it said that.
why Ms does not automatically disable it if it finds a newer processor?
Before game mode I would use another tool to set whatever game I'm playing to above normal.
If people turn things off with never using them they cannot really provide objective feedback on the function.
Ryzen 3700, 32Gb RAM
maybe then we could be more objective
How about a good ol' i7 3770K one?
MS should automate this through an App and sell it on the Store. I think its a gold mine.I guess, or you can just not run twenty tabs in a browser, that in many situations never gets restarted.
Maybe I'm strange but if I want performance I run my system as lean and light as possible while gaming. Everything else is a band aid and it won't work flawlessly, as evident here.
clicking on settings, searching for game bar/game mode and flicking them off hardly takes 10 years off my life.
Ive probably saved you enough money to buy yourself a peice of chocolate from the shop. I wont charge you for that money saving tip though.