Microsoft has rolled out a new Insider Preview Build for Windows 10. According to the company, the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16226 comes with a new performance tab in Task Manager, allowing gamers to track their GPU performance.
As Microsoft noted:
“The Performance tab shows GPU utilization information for each separate GPU component (such as 3D and Video encode/decode), as well as graphics memory usage stats. The Details tab shows you GPU utilization info for each process.”
This is a great addition, though we are pretty sure that most PC gamers already track their GPU performance via third-party tools (such as MSI Afterburner). Still, kudos to Microsoft for implementing such a requested feature.
In its current state, this feature is still under construction and Windows 10 Insider owners may encounter a number of issues and bugs.
This feature will come to all Windows 10 users at a later date!
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only gamers? 😛
wee need a way to backup games
There’s already countless ways. Manual copy/paste of saved games, cloud saves, image backups, programs such as Iperius, just off the top of my head.
Dont think copy paste works on Windows Store games.
As far as i’m concerned that’s yet another reason not to use their garbage store.
thats true,hopefully they will fix in the future.
Copy paste works but then u will have to go through another 3 4 steps to play.
Last i checked, you can’t do that with big files/apps.
Manual copy/paste don’t work and users don’t have permission to do so, sure they are workarounds but only can make another copy of the files, then you can’t restore them.
Cloud save have nothing to do with it.
WinStore is simply garbage.
Have you tried a storage device?
who the hell needs this? we have GPU tweak and MSI afterburner
not only that, but the microshaft app is just for tracking, you can control the fans or bust out an overclock
I wouldn’t mind. Task manager is a lot lighter than PrecisionX so it would be a very convenient feature to have.
But PrecisionX (or Afterburner) has dozens of extra features. With this, you only get GPU usage and memory usage. That’s it. You are using 2% of your GPU (because you had to alt+tab out of the game just to check it). You don’t know temps, frequencies, power limit, fan speed.
Source for the 2% GPU usage?
afterburner conflicts with a few games, so it could be good.
I dont know of any mainstream game in which afterburner doesn’t work. I even works with UWP games (latest beta version of course).
This is actually pretty good news. I don’t always want to open up precision so it’l be nice to have.
Can’t believe it, but gotta give MS credit here. Basic stuff, but no downside really.
Unless it’s not as good as MSI AB, which you’d hope they are learning from with this.
No thanks, I’m fine with Open Hardware Monitor which let’s you set up your desired stats in your tray.
Should have been from the start honestly
lol
I’m not against the feature in any way but like the article said, I already use MSI Afterburner and would not give it up for task manager.
Also while you’re at it MS, chuck in a task manager version of Speccy, like all of Speccy into TM please.
Also get rid of your average defrag and roll with defraggler too.
once they add built in FPS counter then they get a tally mark
This is nice actually
This should have been done many years ago so a slow handclap for Microsoft.
– Microsoft
– Should have been done many years ago
Pretty synonymous, don’t you think? ;D
True that. Perhaps the only real surprise is that they’re seemingly not making it exclusive to monitoring UWP games…
Msi AB is sooo good. I don’t see myself switching but nice
People dont install AB to check GPU usage, they install it to overclock and monitor temps, frequencies, fan speed while gaming with overlays. With this you only get GPU usage and memory usage and you even have to alt+tab out of your game to see it.
I for sure use AB to see GPU usage and even CPU usage along with all the other options you mentioned. VRAM and system ram also.
Yea i’m using it for all of the above reasons you stated too.
people install OHM to check their gpu usage, volts and all that crap.
It’s just GPU usage, no temps, no clock frequencies, and no overlay, so you have to constantly alt+tab out of your game just to see it, in which case most of the time the GPU will throttle to idle anyway making it totally pointless. (some games still use the gpu while in the background, but it’s still pretty bad).
It’s not meant for games. There are many situations where you are not playing games and somehow your temps reaches 80C (and you don’t know what causes it). I’m sure for many people (including me) this will be useful.
But you dont know that your temps are at 80C, now do you?
No, but video converters and coin mining are other uses than gaming where this can come in use. It is not something to replace AB (really its RivaTuner that shows the OSD) but an addition to the existing task manager. Not a bad thing at all.
sounds kewl
Looking forward to the major Windows 10 Redstone 3 update!