Hmm i had unexplainable stutters with my vega 64, will try and see if this helps. Edit_____ I tested it and it worked for me. I only hope hopeless Windows 10 does not turn it on like system restore (i have it turned off but it keeps reactivating) Game mode is as usefull as a killer NIC 🙄

Well, finally this gets more attention. I have game mode turned off since it was released, and judging by its current state - will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

I'd never turned this on, but somehow it was activated. :/

We knew it didnt do anyhing but freezes and stuttering, eh....good thing i've always had it disabled.

screenager:

Hmm i had unexplainable stutters with my vega 64, will try and see if this helps.

Same here, I'm curious!

Richard Nutman:

I'd never turned this on, but somehow it was activated. :/

It is on by Default. Also in some previous Windows builds the option to enable/disable it was not available for some reason.

One more Microsoft cock-up

girdhan:

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.

I've had it "on" for a while - haven't noticed any issues? should I switch it off?

chr!s:

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.

who didn't know this already ? it's been know since day 1 okay I guess not everyone is a modder/tweaker so here's something really useful for you guys, like Jonas above mentions cpu affinity can save your gaming experience most games cannot handle more than 4 or sometimes, sometimes only...8 cores so use 4c/8t as your default go to setting so if you experience stuttering the 1st thing you need to do it open task manager->right click game process->set affinity->and select 8 threads (4 cores) or 16 threads (8 cores) and see how it goes avoid cpu0 and cpu1 (on multithreaded cpus) as a lot of apps and process all hammer the 1st threads and never use the ending threads (that was a well known problem of forza horizon 3 at release it had 100% usage of cpu0 ruining your performance) I personnally always select the last threads games that handle 8 cores generally don't care about you having more (I have a 24c 3960x and 8c 9900k even on the 9900k I limited most games to 4c/8t) setting affinity every time is a pain you can use process lasso to fix that (and do other things) https://bitsum.com/ I've been using it pretty much since XP back then some games couldn't even handle 4 cores >< some used one core ! this saved my gaming on threadripper for most games, a tweak website reviews probably didn't do so keep that in mind some games are unsalvageable tough 😏skyrim LE and subnautica (the original) give me half or less fps than on a 9900k, can't have everything heh if you experience stuttering I can't recommend enough using afterburner and rivatuner https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/msi-afterburner-beta-download.html and setting up (it takes a bit of work) at least an on-screen graph of frametimes and fps you will see on your screen live the changes of "smoothness" when tweaking cpu affinity or ingame graphic options [youtube=fdxnOUT7Pnc] with it you will instantly see the frametimes and fps graphs go up down or go from chaotic to a flat line and know 100% for sure if your gaming experience is better or not no more "guessing" which settings ruin your "fps" you will know for sure a giant THANK YOU to the team responsible for this p.s. thanks guru3d for this article, somehow an update re-enabled game mode >< I'll take note to check every time after big win10 updates

Coincidentally I had this turned off and turned it back on to test something. Apparently game mode doesn't mess with CPU/GPU prioritization anymore so it shouldn't be the cause of stutter. I can't find where I read this.

I have had this turned off along with gamebar since they came

I always deactivated this crap, since i noticed low scores in benches when on.

It's bothersome and nobody asked for that in the first place. Deactivated before I even play a game after installing windows.

I have this on for quite a while now with no detrimental effects to speak of. I think it’s enabled by default in 1903 and newer. Anyone care to measure some performance metrics in 1909 or 2004?

Weird that it even exists. The OS should be optimized for all kinds of tasks like e.g. gaming or productivity, there shouldn't be a switch for that.

I was wondering why Diablo 3 acted so strangely. It indeed freezes and stutters on the most strange times. Im running a 2700X with 16GB 3400MHz memory and a GTX1060 6GB. Just disabled it.

Richard Nutman:

I'd never turned this on, but somehow it was activated. :/

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.

If you want to believe reddit. Real testing is needed.