In December, we informed you about a new Game Mode that was coming to Windows 10. And today, we are happy to report that this mode has found its way to the latest Insider Preview build, although it’s not functional as of yet.
This mode will reduce memory, CPU and GPU footprint on running apps when a game is running, which may potentially improve performance.
What’s really interesting here is that on build 15007, the new Game Mode setting has appeared in the Game DVR panel. This could potentially mean that this mode will be available to all games and not to only UWP games. After all, the Game DVR panel is not exclusive to UWP games.
As we can see, players will be able to manually enable the Game Mode for a game which they are currently playing, and there doesn’t appear to be any restriction to it.
Microsoft hasn’t clarified yet whether this mode will be available exclusively to UWP games. What we know, so far, is that UWP games are being built with this mode in mind.
From the looks of it, the Game Mode is not functional yet in this latest Insider Preview build. As such, we’ll have to wait a little bit longer until we get to see it in action.
Thanks MSPoweruser
UPDATE:
Windows 10’s Game Mode will work with both Win32 and UWP games!
Excited to share that the new Windows 10 Game Mode will include /both/ Win32 and UWP game (now w/ link) https://t.co/Dv14gWAjt9
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You know what this reminds me? Those “good old optimization softwares” like “Game Booster”, “Game Fire” or whatever. xD
So Microsoft pulled an Apple move?
Wouldn’t be the first time I think. :o)
Those two love each other.
More like, Apple thinks Microsoft is a joke, because Microsoft can’t stop copying Apple.
I see like “you suck” and then the other goes “no you suck” and them Xerox steps in and shouts “Will you sh*theads just stop?”
Meanwhile, although not as popular as the big guys, Linux swiftly improves his capabilities, sweeping a following that quickly sees that with both of those two involvedinaendlessfightandIdunnowhereIamgoingwiththis…
Just like Zatara amd me! XDDDD
Aaaawwwwwww *-*
<3
I wouldn’t mind it, live is getting hard with 6 GB ram.
I would….upgrade. Fast.
because?
Because 6 gb is too little for just about anything. The bare minimum I would recommend for just about anyone is 8 and if you’re seriously doing something i would go 16 today.
Yet I do everything, even play games that require 8 GB like Battlefield 1 (85 hours so far) and Titanfall 2 (91 hours so far) just fine with 6 GB.
And I don’t know magic.
I feel that theres a bottleneck somewhere there. I’m sure it plays “fine” but i see even my ram usage go well above 6 while playing those same games.
16 GB DDR 4 3600 MHZ costs only 160 euros. About 120 euros for 16 GB DDR 4 2800 MHZ. See go and upgrade now!!!
” only 160 euros. ”
Yeah man 160 euro for ram, so cheap!!! Seriously how rich are you?
As the shredder leader of the foot ninjas i have too much money to upgrade my pc whenever i can. But i not like those idiots who are upgrading their pc each year and spent 30000 euros on it. I upgrade it only each 3+ years. A 6 core ryzen with 16 gb ddr 4 3600 mhz and motherboard will not cost more than 800 euros possibly not even more than 700 euros.
I spent only $570 for an MSI GTX Armor 1080. I only spent $500 on some car parts.
I have 12 GB DDR 3 1600 MHZ since June 2011 and you are still on 6 GB?
Its 2017 and RAM is very cheap these days, Just upgrade already.
NO i like the challange
Lol
If you ran BF1 with all the things I run in background with that little ram, you would see it’s tough xD
I truly wonder how this will effect actual in game performance. Maybe it will turn off unwanted apps you have to turn off if you want to turn on SLI ???
Windows 10 is a virus
lol
and there is no cure.
oh please
“not functional yet”
Ms in a nutshell. Dont worry when windows 11 with game mode 2.0 comes out it will be great.
Dude. The feature is being developed and was only found in the INSIDER build. It isn’t like they released it to everyone and it doesn’t work. If you try out a INSIDER build and expect new features to automatically work I’ve got some bad news for you.
Cut them some slack.
No doubt by the time it’s actually released to the public, it’ll be “functional”, sure, but nevertheless, I’d be more surprised if it was actually fully functional, rather than just partially functional, as so many other portions of Windows Spyware 10 are, so, yeah…. Windows “11” & v2.0.
what does that even mean? How can game mode be “partially functional”?
How can DirectX12 be such a joke (regardless of the alleged hardware-side gimping), when it’s supposed to have been coded by professionals?
How can Microsoft have made a browser that’s actually worse than Internet Explorer? Yes, that’s right, EDGE is actually worse than IE in some ways…..
You’d think it’s impossible, & yet, Microsoft just can’t stop proving us wrong, if you stop to think about it.
Its like these people have goldfish memory and still have not figured out how MS operates.
right cuz history has shown that when a feature is officially released, it is fully functional.
Why don’t you wait until it is released and then complain if it doesn’t work? Use your brain if you have one.
You’re literally complaining about a feature that’s still being implemented and tested. Jesus christ
Cuz MS has had such a great recent track record for releasing stable products/patches.
Is there a echo in here?
Yes, you are hearing things, go get that brain of yours checked Brian. oh you ignored me, hows your echo chamber now ?
“Use your brain if you have one.”
My brain comes with memory, yours has an expansion slot to install that memory unit once you level up and get enough experience.
Think I might need to make this more clear for:
You’re complaining about a feature that is still in development that may or may not work and if it doesn’t then fine don’t use it. Nobody is forcing you to use it are they? So what if it doesn’t work for you? Then move on. It might help others.
Nerd rage moar. Nobody is forcing you to read these comments. So what if you don’t agree with them? You’re just complaining for the sake of complaining about their complaining.
We need to go deeper!
Stop complaining about us complaining about you complaining about our complaining!
That’s just a whole load of pointless complaining right there, simply for the sake of complaining!
While we’re at it, I think I’m going to start complaining about you complaining about me complaining about your complaining about my complaining, all because YOU can’t stop complaining about MY complaining over YOUR complaining!
Ergo sum; IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT!
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YEAH ITS YOUR FAULT YOU DONT WANNA HEAR OUR COMPLAINING THEN GO TO MICROSOFT’S SITE AND GET THE NEWS FROM THERE…oh wait even there people are angry….WELL GO WORK FOR MS THEN, YOU CANT COMPLAIN WHEN YOU ARE SHILLING FOR THEM…..like Amiga, where is that guy? Ms must have cancelled him.
“You’re just complaining for the sake of complaining.”
You basically just described the Internet, in a sentence.
By-the-by, we could apply that sentence to just about every-single post that complains about how a game is going to be broken at launch, even though we have no proof of that, since there’s no open &/or closed Alpha &/or Beta to go off of, & yet, how many times a year are we being proven correct?
Oh, that’s right…..
But I’m sure this is different, because, its Microsoft, right? I mean, it’s not like they’ve ever treated their customer base like a bunch of disposable idiots upon whom they can push unstable, unfinished products onto over & over & over, right? >.>
No i think i might need to make it more clear to you, MICROSOFT IS DOING THIS FOR YEARS, EVERY PRODUCT THEY MAKE IS HALF ARSED AND IT TAKES YEAR FOR THE NEXT VERSION TO WORK AS THE PREVIOUS VERSION INTENDED.
vista and win7
dx10 and x11
Games for windows live that was initial redirecting you to xbox live until they ditched it and they made windows store, which still sucks
ms is behind other companies and they making trash, NOTHING they ever make comes out at a working state.
But hey its me that complains for the sake of complaining, not that ms has failed to fix their crap for over a decade, not that they close down studios and fire people like crazy, not that UWP is trash, DX12 is trash, Windows store is trash and xbone is a failure and lets not get into win10… BUT HEY I AM JUST COMPLAINING.
WHY AM I COMPLAINING WHY CANT I SHUT THE FFF UP AND BEND OVER TO MS AND CLAP LIKE THE MS EMPLOYEES EVERY TIME MS RELEASED A PIECE OF TRASH….and the funny thing is sony fanboys are laughing at all of this not realizing that it is because ms sucks that their company even exists.
As for “no one forces to you use it” Yeah man, sure, just like dx12 locked games and windows store exclusives….Its like you are a newcomer that does not know how ms operates all those years and you are wistfully thinking they are better than they really are.
Don’t you realise, it’s cool for the kids to bash MS. It’s extremely similar to how Apple sheep buy anything with an Apple logo, but in this case it’s cool to hate instead of like. SJWs are very similar in this way too, it’s like a hive mind. Same goes for religious nuts. The human race is generally very disappointing.
I’ve tried bashing MS before on here and my comment was the highest rated. Even though it was 100% factually incorrect. Always works though.
Every feature for preview Insiders in the Win10 Anniversary update was fully functional by the time it was released to the general public. But this stuff is irrelevant to the sheepish kids/low IQ/general population.
So…. In your reality, the new Settings panel doesn’t constantly crash & freeze up on people?
😮
Nice place, mon.
“it’s cool for the kids to bash MS”
????? With a avatar like that, the question is how could you know bash ms, they have literally done everything in their power to ruin pc gaming.
“SJWs are very similar in this way too, it’s like a hive mind”
Its also cool to bash sjws. Nothing wrong with sjws, its just cool for the kids to bash em, am i right?
“I’ve tried bashing MS before on here and my comment was the highest rated. Even though it was 100% factually incorrect. Always works though.”
That also applies on anti sjw circles, Sargon of Akkad follower and right winger conservative nut posts inaccurate information, Sargon retweets him and everyone likes his post despite the fact its all inaccurate information.
“But this stuff is irrelevant to the sheepish kids/low IQ/general population.”
Talk about hive mind. You are not as smart as you think you are.
It’s insider build, for insiders, which is to test builds before they come out, it’s like buying early access game and being made because some features are not implimented yet.
The point is that ms continues that tactic even after release features expected to work, DONT
Not even the store is functional! Mine just broke again with the latest update. Getting really tired about this.
Honestly ,does Microsoft expect us to buy anything from this store if most of the times we(I) can’t even run it properly? I would consider giving it a change if they change it quite a bit, but considering the already experience im having, it will probably be never in hell.
That is why i bash ms, what they make does not work properly and then they keep making trash and expect people to eat it up. Ms lost alot of money when apple made it into mainstream and when ps4 unlike ps3 did not suck.
What about an option for having a “Minimal” W10 installation that won’t install crap that I’ll never use? Maybe that way W10 won’t use 1 f ucking GB of RAM by default when there are Linux distros that uses less than 160 MB.
That already exists you just cant buy it if you’re a normal person, its called Windows 10 LTSB. Also my second PC (win 8.1) is currently using 760MB of ram with nothing running, for comparison Ubuntu(16.04) running on the same PC uses 1.2 GB sitting on the desktop. Please don’t compare 2 OS’s used for widely different applications. Those 160MB distros can barely do anything without installing a bunch of stuff which balloons that “160MB” number.
“Those 160MB distros can barely do anything without installing a bunch of stuff which balloons that “160MB” number.”
Web browsing (Chromium), full multimedia set (Kodi), and any Linux game you throw at it. Yeah, barely anything…
And I said 160 by default, rtard. Just like you said 760 MB in w8.1. But run Chrome and we’ll see how much it goes up.
“Run Chrome and we’ll see how much it goes up” You’re a bright spark aren’t you?
160 by default IN SOME DISTROS. Others like Ubuntu (3rd most popular) use more (its up to 1.3GB sitting with System Monitor open BTW)
I use Windows 10 LTSB 🙂
Did you buy it legally though? I’m betting you didn’t ;^)
win7 still pesters me with additional language updates.
-ZOMG DUDE REALLY IMPORTANT UPDATES YOU HAVE NOT INSTALLED YET.
-Like?
-Hungarian language dude, also Turkish language.
-But i dont use that Ms
-JUST INSTALL IT ANYWAY DUDE.
Yeah, that’s why I stopped using Ultimate years ago, it comes with 32 languages built-in, which, of course, since it’s Microsoft, require constant updates, regardless of if you’re using them or not, “because we’re just that polite!” ;D
Win 7 Professional ftw <3
😛
Well every Windows has “crap that I’ll never use”. Like powershell.
” when there are Linux distros that uses less than 160 MB.”
good luck with all those games!
Wew, just saw the update! Who knows how well it’ll work, but gotta give credit where it’s due.
Jesus the cynicism here is cancer. People are getting their panties in a bunch about a feature that hasn’t even released yet.
I like the irony you give off here. As it is true what you say.. you seem to need to comment on people commenting. I mean why would you continue to feed the circlejerk that this is?
See the irony now when it’s in front of your face?
I am telling you that there is no need to comment on something so worseless because it will always continue into the same direction, as in they complain, you complaining about they complaining and vice versa. THERE IS NO REASON TO DO THIS BESIDES WAISTING TIME, and since you are here reading “gaming news”, I guess achievement unlocked…
You completely missed my point. My point wasn’t that people are complaining, it was that people are complaining about a feature that isn’t even out yet…
They are complaining about MS track record, not about the feature.
I don’t believe it will work wonders. I guess it will be something like Game Booster.
Hey remember when we said that UWP and DX 12 would use all the cores and threads on a CPU and run games great? Welp Forza Horizon 3 was one core optimized and UWP games run worse or no better than their DX 11 versions even on AMD (see Quantum Break)…but now we got something new!
Remember when we said Windows 10 was faster and more streamlined and had less overhead and bloat? Welp we made this new “magic program” which disables some of the 10 million background processes you can see running in task manager, some of which are taking personal information which you gave us the right to do in the EULA. We are not shutting those down of course so if you have a modern CPU we are not even going to claim this will give you gains (it won’t).
For the people running Q Quads from 2007-8 or Duo Core though you should see a nice 5 percent gain in DX 12/UWP games just like stupid Game Booster software does. Of course that still will not match the 30 FPS of the Xbox in the game which we do on our 1.7 ghz last gen AMD CPU.
– Your pals at Microsoft.
P.S. Just wait until you see the horrible ports when Scorpio comes out. If you think it is bad now, wait until you see what happens when we have a GPU that is not much weaker than a R9 260.
P.S.S. You can forget about Vulkan which gave gains to everyone. We are in bed with numerous Triple A devs. We granted EA the right to put EA Access on Xbox when Sony declined them. We sponsor games from all the other devs. So unless the entire Triple A industry crashes you are stuck with Direct X through our bribes, sponsorships and backdoor deals.
The funniest thing about this?
If you actually think about this for a second, the people who are running those old Intel Quads from ~10 years ago? They’re most likely not exactly using the latest & greatest in GPU hardware either, so chances are, they’re not even running a DX12-compatible GPU in the first place, so they may-or-may-not have even upgraded to Windows 10 at all, even, making this entire endeavour even more pointless, when you consider who Microsoft is targeting, specifically, with the UWP platform in the first place.
Or, was I suppose, as Win32 support seems to be the first time they’ll be (informally, of course) admitting that UWP is a joke that didn’t take off, so it’s time to recant, retract, & fall back once more unto the waiting arms of Win32, as was heralded by…. well, everyone who isn’t a Microsoft sycophant, basically.
Oh, & of course, let’s not forget the irony that comes from Windows 8.1 being the most streamlined & least bloated post-Windows 7 OS, once you uninstall as much of the Metro bloat as possible….. /facepalm.
Forza Horizon 3 runs on all cores…. AND…. The first thread being maxed issue has now been fixed… It no longer gets maxed out on the first core…. So ya.
why wont u mention gears? so much hate man, amazing.
wil wait for a OS u develope im sure it wont suck 😉
Good that it is for win32 too. Steam going to benefit from this. But in the end, i don’t see 100% of the gamers having game changer performance upgrades. Like 0.5fps for 99.9999% and 1.0fps for the 0.0001%
Lel.
Still it’s a good move that they’re trying something for gamers.
lol probably like a gamebooster…in my case i was just trying a gamebooster the other day and ran 3dmark and was surprised to to see a 0.99% decrease in performance XD
gamebooster is designed for those that are strugguling to achieve decent performance, not for those that think that installing software will magically add 30 % performance boost
So where’s that numpty who told me it absolutely would only be for UWP ???
God I love being right?
I don’t know what any of this means but I don’t like it.
Excuse my ignorance, but isn’t Win32 limited to a 32bit memory interface? What about 64bit?
is this how they are going to be doing cross play with xbox/pc?i can tell you iwill never join a pc/xbox cross play as a console gamer.unless with this game mode app forces pc to only use a controller then still no…lol