Game mode is a feature that a lot of PC gamers were looking forward to. This mode is available in the latest Windows 10 Insiders Build, however it appears that it does not offer any performance improvement at all.
Microsoft claimed that it targets to improve performance via two ways with Game Mode: a) an increase overall framerate or peaks and b) an increase in average framerates or consistency.
A number of PC users got their hands on this build and according to some early tests, Windows 10’s Game mode is a big letdown as it did not actually offer any performance improvement at all.
Reddit’s member ‘_Primeey‘ tested Forza Horizon 3 and found zero performance improvements.
This falls in line with YouTube’s ‘Go4Game’ experience, who saw zero performance improvements in Forza Horizon 3 with Game Mode enabled.
YouTube’s ‘AkkaratG Klunrith’ also tested Rise of the Tomb Raider and did not see any performance improvements. AkkaratG Klunrith tested the Soviet Installation; a CPU-bound area that should, theoretically, see some performance improvements via this new mode.
All in all, Windows 10’s Game Mode is a letdown, at least in its current state. We don’t know whether Microsoft will further improve its functionality, however these early tests show a mode that does little to improve a game’s performance!
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You can’t even reach the current state/build. You are greeted with the error Error code: (0x80073712) when updating. Pathetic.
Test borderless Windowed. It will be the only thing to show an increase (other than a weak I3 or FX chip and CPU priority in task manager) if there is one. UWP is borderless windowed and it is the entire reason they made it. Also it will not work on a game with more than one process running. For MS is they can come close to Exclusive Fullscreen in a borderless window it is a success. Witcher 3 is the best game to test probably and where I have seen the biggest swing between fullscreen/borderless.
If they show no increase in borderless windowed than it is complete smoke and mirrors.
a fun fact about uwp re7 bio hazzard is a uwp game it runs 1080p/60 on xbox one and will be 4k/60fps on xbox scorpio because of uwp.
lol another fail like dx12
dx12 is awesome. its just devs are lazy and havent fully utilized it yet.
Agreed.
Nor should they, when Vulkan is clearly the better option – for everyone.
Allegedly.
lol
In other news winter is cold and summer is hot. Anybody who expected performance boost from this needs to get in an asylum.
Crazy to think ms can do something right these days.
Project was interesting but more budget pc minded i guess.
You know everyone hating Microsoft for their own reasons… and I’m no different.
But my main reason for why I hate Microsoft is because they killed off Rare… That’s enough reason for me to hate them. 🙂
They killed off Scalebound as well, but most of all they should be hated for shutting down affiliation with different studios.
I know about Scalebound too. Poor Kamiya… He wanted to make that game ever since Bayonetta.
And say what you want about the man, but I just love his “I don’t take $hit from nobody” attitude when it comes to publishers and him making games.
Microsoft e Microsoft, n-ai ce sa-i faci.
Asa e… Intr-o nota mai pozitiva, nu ma asteptam sa dau de un tovaras roman pe acest site. Salutari! 🙂
Mai suntem cativa pe aici, dar ai grija ca sunt rasisti rau userii aici. Eu sunt si jumate grec, si mai vb cu grecii pe aici. E site grecesc pana la urma.
Salutari de la inca un roman! 🙂
you want jrpgs get a ps4 thats what its for not xbox.
if Scalebound was any good, maybe it would still be around 🙂
It was “any” good. They could’ve worked a bit more on the punchlines.
its a jrpg none are good to me
ms wants all their exclusives for xbox scorpio in 4k.scalebound looked like it could barley do 1080p/30 so it got the axe also it would have flopped on xbox any way its a jrpg.
thats why it got the axe
is this accurate info? it didn’t seem jrpg tho. The acting and punchlines were cheap af tho.
It was a Platinum Title, so it was both a J-RPG, & not.
Either way, Hvd is a troll, so go with a mountain of salt for everything he says.
the truth is a troll and i speak the truth and fanboys dont want to hear it.
Rare is doing just fine and since you are more than likely talking about their kinect work perhaps you should do some research. You would see they weren’t doing what MS wanted them to do and they were doing what they wanted. Kinect was as much their baby as MS’s.
im so surprised…
*clap *clap *clap Kudos to Microsoft for their strides forward in making another redundant feature.
SURPRISE!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4b851a36a26ebf9098d1b9286c6195df4ee721b0163a1f9055f614dd458bbc38.jpg
I was expecting nothing and I’m still disappointed.
“does not offer any performance boost in its current state
I told ya, but hey apparently i am complaining for something that is either a new occurrence or is not ready and wont work in its current state yet as ms fanboys say.
Ms, RETIRE, just RETIRE, you suck at everything, make NOTHING and retire.
the thing is, this is a preview build so by definition:
1) it is not ready.
2) you were told this by microsoft (not fanboys)
3) even when the first release ships, it is not as if that is all they are doing because they have already said it is an incremental feature that will be worked on in this and future builds.
All of that is first party facts without any “fanboy” opinion thus far which you can gather by simply reading the patch notes 🙂
Whats the point in testing nothing, honestly….
Because it will totally yield 20% of performance boost. Why DX12 isn’t ready yet after all those years of advertising it as a gaming’s savior?
DX12 gives me a huge boost… in freaking Dolphin… which is an emulator made by passionate programmers.
I’ll say this, DX12 is good, because it basically caries what AMD made progress with Mantle,… if Micro$oft wouldn’t have kept it exclusive to their $hitty UWP games most of the time… GJ Micro$oft, way to kill your own credibility and halting progress… you greedy, scummy bastards.
But why didn’t anybody make a proper DX12 demo yet? There was plenty for DX11.
Too right! DirectX 12 has been amazing… for Dolphin! From the little I read on the matter, they only partially integrated DX12 in said emulator’s backend but it was evidently enough to result in huge performance gains in some instances. At least MS are good for something, haha!
>I told ya
For some reason I picture you as a guy, that when you plays roulette, you bet on both the red and black so you can brag about how you wins 94.7% of the time.
Hey i am not the one who sperged like crazy against me under the argument “THIS IS NOT READY YET STOP COMPLAINING” like various people did in the previous article this game mode was announced.
Microsoft should start using instagram stories. They have a lot of content killing off titles and affiliations with studios. lol
Reminder that there are plenty of reasons not to use Win10 and still precisely ZERO reasons to use it.
It’s still the first of a beta, but I understand, it’s so much cooler to hate on Microsoft. What would it be of some readers without their dose of Microsoft-hating each morning? Total madness, I know.
They can afford being bullied once in a while.
People are fed up with disappointments coming from Microsoft. DX12 was touted as a revolution in gaming a few years ago, but still there’s no game where it really shines.
lol?
Microsoft LUL
Did you look only at the singular graphic and ignore the three other videos?
ROFL
I love how all kiddos below thought software magic will add 10 fps to their games
what a surprise
windows 10 kurwa.. so much you can’t even see it..
Did you even read the blog post? You DO know this this a first iteration of a work in progress because they said so!!! It was in the build notes. It was in several tech blogs and it was noted repeatedly by the team that performance will increase as they target more apps and they fine tune the feature. It is one thing to say, yeah, currently it makes little difference and that is true. But it is a completely different thing to say “we don’t know if it will further improve” when the very release notes of the feature told you so!
Cry harder, metroturd. No one likes msft.
Typical Microsoft.
Who didn’t see that coming? Even though some guy reported a gain of 15 FPS in 4K, I was skeptical. It was in Forza, after all. And, lo and behold, then he said graphics got worse after turning on the Game Mode.
Adding more and more gimmicks for children and disregarding gamers, this is Microsoft.
Nintendo could justifiably be substituted for Microsoft in that concluding sentence but I digress.
Maybe, I don’t play their games and use their hardware so I don’t know how gimmicky they are.
As for Microsoft, by “gimmicks for children” I specifically meant Paint 3D and on-screen scribbles.
would did you expect, it’s microscam
the shittest PC company to ever exist
Double-pwnage.
Oh, also
I TOTALLY F*CKING CALLED IT ;D
AMIGABOT, WHERE ART THOU?!
Don’t get your nipples twisted until its actually done.
How can it fully work, if it’s not technically realeased yet? Sounds like a biased opinion, kind of like why this site doesn’t have a mobile friendly site yet.
Doesn’t offer a boost because it doesn’t yet have its full functionality. Or you didnt read the known issues.Also its Preview. Its funny how many things people expect to just work when it probably won’t.
“Game Mode is enabled system wide by default, however, the ON/OFF toggle in Settings will incorrectly show it as being OFF until the user manually toggles the Setting to ON which will cause it to update and accurately display the status of Game Mode system wide.”
Also why have you shown performance improvements when apparently there aren’t any?
PR:
“Microsoft claimed that it targets to improve performance”
Reality:
“Windows 10’s Game mode is a big letdown as it did not actually offer any performance improvement at all”
Who’d have thunk it!
Woooooow, Microsoft wants something to be in some manner……
When have I ever heard that before.
Oh, I know! How about….. at least once every 1-6 months or so for the last 20 years?
Yeah, I think that’s about right.
Now, someone please remind me of the last time Microsoft wasn’t spouting verbal bullsh*t out of their mouth holes?
Exactly.
The short version;
What Microsoft wants ——————————- Reality.
Thus sayeth the Troll King…… 😮
thats what you are doing derp.
Yeah, okay, whatever.
Assclown.
Y’know, I was actually hoping it actually did something even though I knew it would do nothing.
I’m slightly disappointed.