Windows 10 - Game mode

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EOF(Posted 2017) [#1]
Microsoft's next big Windows 10 update may feature a so-called game mode which aims to push more of the system resources into running your game and making the background tasks take a bit of a back seat.
This is additional good news for the PC master race and further sets out to solidify the PC as the ultimate game platform.

Well as long as they don't try and make Windows 10 too much of an XBox alternative (by trying to push some ugly tiled inferface overlay).

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3157457/windows/performance-boosting-game-mode-discovered-in-new-windows-10-preview-build.html

"It's a post PC world. The PC is dead." - Apple
"The PC is stronger than ever" - Rest of the world


Steve Elliott(Posted 2017) [#2]
Microsoft has been making amends for recent errors with DirectX 12 (much more low level access) and a rumoured completely new interface coming soon.


GW(Posted 2017) [#3]
they'll never make amends on the spying and telemetry though.


dynaman(Posted 2017) [#4]
They have been promising that forever! (game mode that is)


Steve Elliott(Posted 2017) [#5]
They are our best chance...Linux is hardly wowing us now is it?!

A very boring os, that was to be the next new thing!

Apple are so up their own arse they want to control everything! With Apple os...While Microsoft, and IBM have always been more honest than Apple...While Steve Jobs even ripped off his own friend over the Atari Breakout deal.


xlsior(Posted 2017) [#6]
They are our best chance...Linux is hardly wowing us now is it?!

A very boring os, that was to be the next new thing!


On the desktop Linux may be a rounding error, but it is HUGE on the server side -- over 50% of the web servers on the internet run on Linux, and about 90% of the email servers do.


EOF(Posted 2017) [#7]
Apple are so up their own arse they want to control everything
They have also been trying to convince everyone that the PC is dead and everyone should be playing with their silly swipy/slidy tablets. That's fine if you want to limit yourself to posting countless identical duck face pictures to instagag or washing your dirty laundry in public via fecesbook. The (Windows) PC practically "does it all" though - Productivity, development, design, social contacting, and gaming.


xlsior(Posted 2017) [#8]
They have also been trying to convince everyone that the PC is dead and everyone should be playing with their silly swipy/slidy tablets. That's fine if you want to limit yourself to posting countless identical duck face pictures to instagag or washing your dirty laundry in public via fecesbook. The (Windows) PC practically "does it all" though - Productivity, development, design, social contacting, and gaming.


Tablets are OK for consuming, but they suck at producing.