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Windows 10: Game mode can impact FPS negatively with stutters and freezes
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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#5785810 Posted on: 05/06/2020 09:43 AM
One more Microsoft cock-up
One more Microsoft cock-up
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#5785814 Posted on: 05/06/2020 09:57 AM
Which is curious because at first I assumed it was a AMD driver specific issue with how this changed the CPU priorities but then from further reading it sounds like forced or hack-like so having it default to enabled seems the wrong way to go about it plus many users wouldn't even be aware of the setting let alone what it's actually doing as "Game Mode" itself is pretty non-descriptive.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/gcladd/if-youre-still-having-5700xt-driver-issues-on/?sort=new
Game mode segments the cpu, so background processes get forced to threads 0,1 and anything identifiable as a game gets the remaining cpu time with no interference.
It definitely causes issues with well threaded drivers that depend on thread 0 to communicate with the games. Basically, useless.
Bit like playing around with affinity or CPU core allocation and such, well less affinity or priority and more about what cores get to do what I suppose.
It is on by Default. Also in some previous Windows builds the option to enable/disable it was not available for some reason.
Which is curious because at first I assumed it was a AMD driver specific issue with how this changed the CPU priorities but then from further reading it sounds like forced or hack-like so having it default to enabled seems the wrong way to go about it plus many users wouldn't even be aware of the setting let alone what it's actually doing as "Game Mode" itself is pretty non-descriptive.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/gcladd/if-youre-still-having-5700xt-driver-issues-on/?sort=new
Game mode segments the cpu, so background processes get forced to threads 0,1 and anything identifiable as a game gets the remaining cpu time with no interference.
It definitely causes issues with well threaded drivers that depend on thread 0 to communicate with the games. Basically, useless.
Bit like playing around with affinity or CPU core allocation and such, well less affinity or priority and more about what cores get to do what I suppose.
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#5785817 Posted on: 05/06/2020 10:07 AM
I've had it "on" for a while - haven't noticed any issues? should I switch it off?
I've had it "on" for a while - haven't noticed any issues? should I switch it off?
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#5785821 Posted on: 05/06/2020 10:35 AM
You might as well, the concept behind Game Mode itself is a bit ... flawed I'd say. Game mode says it diverts your system resources, to your games ( Or disables them?). Without providing answers on, what system resources are we talking about?
Personally I think game mode was developed for users who had so many junkware applications running on their system, that it affected game performance.
I've had it "on" for a while - haven't noticed any issues? should I switch it off?
You might as well, the concept behind Game Mode itself is a bit ... flawed I'd say. Game mode says it diverts your system resources, to your games ( Or disables them?). Without providing answers on, what system resources are we talking about?
Personally I think game mode was developed for users who had so many junkware applications running on their system, that it affected game performance.
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It is on by Default. Also in some previous Windows builds the option to enable/disable it was not available for some reason.