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Designed to give games priority and to make them perform faster, as so often that turns to be not true. Microsoft game mode is causing a number of issues, lowering your FPS.
Ever since the Creators Update of Windows 10 from (yeah that was spring 2017), game mode has been introduced. Normally it is an options and modus operandus that you need to enable yourself. Once enabled, performance when playing should improve by prioritizing your game and keep background processes what they are intended to be for, in the background in idle. As of recently, many users on Reddit report that the activated game mode leads to stutters and frozen screens reports PCgameshardware.
These problems occur with different game titles such as Call of Duty: Warzone or League of Legends. According to the current user reports, both AMD and Nvidia graphics cards are affected by the problem. Specifically, the performance problems with the Radeon RX 5700 XT, RX 570, RX 480 and R9 290 have been identified. On the side, Nvidia users with Geforce GTX 980 and the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti are hit by stutters and frozen screens.
In order to be able to enjoy PC games smoothly again, it is therefore recommended to deactivate the game mode in the event of problems. To do this, open the Settings app in Windows 10 and click on the Play entry in the menu. The game mode can now be switched off in this window. As users report, this should have solved the performance problems.
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#5786892 Posted on: 05/09/2020 12:33 AM
I have always had it enabled and never notice any issues other than what I should expect with my aging hardware.
I am running newest fast ring insider build, so maybe it was an old issue.
Will try disabled to see if it makes any difference, with my older hardware and fondness for 4k DSR I'm sure I will notice.
I have always had it enabled and never notice any issues other than what I should expect with my aging hardware.
I am running newest fast ring insider build, so maybe it was an old issue.
Will try disabled to see if it makes any difference, with my older hardware and fondness for 4k DSR I'm sure I will notice.
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#5786925 Posted on: 05/09/2020 03:05 AM
Same here. I had to edit the settings anyway so the xbox home button on the xbox one controller doesn't do anything when pressed because of it needing it to be pressed to turn off the controller.
on my system gamemode is disable and has been for very long time.
Same here. I had to edit the settings anyway so the xbox home button on the xbox one controller doesn't do anything when pressed because of it needing it to be pressed to turn off the controller.
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#5787042 Posted on: 05/09/2020 05:04 PM
Out of curiosity i turned this on and fired up a few VR games to really push the system, BL2 VR, F4VR and SkyrimVR, the last two modded up the wazzo, but on or off it seems to have no impact on my system, so i have no idea what is it supposed to do when turned on.
Out of curiosity i turned this on and fired up a few VR games to really push the system, BL2 VR, F4VR and SkyrimVR, the last two modded up the wazzo, but on or off it seems to have no impact on my system, so i have no idea what is it supposed to do when turned on.
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#5787212 Posted on: 05/10/2020 01:01 PM
Sempre e solo Microsoft fa le porchette...brenk ad sumar
Sempre e solo Microsoft fa le porchette...brenk ad sumar
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I had explicitly turned off it when I installed windows... and now it's on.
Updates have a tendency to reset some user preferences. So fu**ing annoying.
Exact same thing here. I turned it off from the start; just checked now and it was on again.