Microsoft calls that a flagship OS launchSo it looks like they put this feature in and didn't even really test it... not good. Thanks for the heads up, will avoid.
Maybe because clickbait? I mean someone created a thread Just because of this article and linked directly to it. Gives them a Lot of clicks, altough the article is bullshit.
Could be. The other Gaf thread linked here (the one by dr_rus) is much more in-depth and shows the same story. Little or no difference, at all, with Game Mode enabled.
I'm unable to see the video, cause work, but considering it's the only source I've seen for these results, I'd advice people to put the pitchforks back into the closet for now.
edit: To compare, see these two images:
There's something wrong there.
All credits to dr_rus for the first image.
Jesus, the OP sounds angry lol. The feature is brand new. Relax. I'm sure it will improve over time.
The first image is testing on a 6850k, which is a 6 core 12 thread CPU, the latter is testing on a 7700k which is a 4core 8 thread machine.
Be that as it may, that doesn't change the fact that this video is the only source I've been able to find that produces results like these. Keep in mind, that according to the test, the average FPS is almost halved, which (using your chart as baseline) would put the performance below the Celeron processor at the bottom.
Be that as it may, that doesn't change the fact that this video is the only source I've been able to find that produces results like these. Keep in mind, that according to the test, the average FPS is almost halved, which (using your chart as baseline) would put the performance below the Celeron processor at the bottom.
Agreed.
Only Vista was worse.
There's something wrong there.
It's not average FPS but 99.9 percentile.
it shows how low 0.1% of frames go, to highlight the increased instability Game Mode comes withNot quite sure what 99.9% means. I thought the figures provided were averages.
it shows how low 0.1% of frames go, to highlight the increased instability Game Mode comes with
It's actually one single frame rate value at the 0.1th % position (e.g. the hundredth lowest out of 10.000 frames). The median would be the 50th percentile.it shows how low 0.1% of frames go, to highlight the increased instability Game Mode comes with
Only at start - after SP1 it got much better - meanwhile W10 updates continue to be disasters
I don't have the Creator's Update yet. Is it easy enough to make sure "Game" mode is off and stays off?
Is there a good way to see if the feature is on? I believe I tried enabling it on one of the games to test it, but I have no idea if I know if it's on or not now.
The update also broke G-Sync. Well played Microsoft.
Could be. The other Gaf thread linked here (the one by dr_rus) is much more in-depth and shows the same story. Little or no difference, at all, with Game Mode enabled.
I'm unable to see the video, cause work, but considering it's the only source I've seen for these results, I'd advice people to put the pitchforks back into the closet for now.
edit: To compare, see these two images:
There's something wrong there.
All credits to dr_rus for the first image.
Is game mode on by default after the update? i can't seem to find it since there is no gaming icon in my settings (is it because of the windows 10 pro version?).
Maybe that's the point.Scorpio gonna look even more powerful in comparison now.
I have Pro and turned it off as soon as I upgraded to the creators update. It's in 'Settings' under 'Gaming' and then 'Game Mode' and toggle it to off.
There is no gaming anywhere in settings for me. no icon or otherwise.
It's been in the Insider Builds for months.
Then you don't have the CU.
Yup, looks like you don't have version 1703.
Can find out version by clicking on Settings -> System -> About.
You sure? Seems to be working for me.
Is this legit or some kind of cherry picking?
I mean I'm used to MS managing to screw on PC for gaming but this seems ridiculously bad and embaressing and I've seen other benchmarks that show maybe a slight dip but mostly take the angle it doesn't really improve much (which is still dissappointing but nothing like claiming it makes things much worse).
The option to use Game Mode is enabled by default.I don't have the Creator's Update yet. Is it easy enough to make sure "Game" mode is off and stays off?
G-Sync is working fine here, and I installed Rocket League to confirm that it's working with it too.The update also broke G-Sync. Well played Microsoft.
All big businesses lie all the time. Nothing new here. I don't trust any of them.
G-Sync is working fine here, and I installed Rocket League to confirm that it's working with it too.
I would try a clean driver install, and making sure that it's enabled in the NVIDIA Control Panel.
It reserves those cores/threads regardless of any activity that may or may not be present on them, so you will always have less cores available to the game itself. From what i know, the number of threads reserved depends on the total amount of threads on the system, but it will always be a net loss of total number of cores/threads available to the game as some are reserved for background processes.
This isn't huge for older games which aren't as threaded, but newer titles, especially those on DX12 (like BF1) or Vulkan are usually heavily multi threaded when it comes to CPU usage, so game mode is straight taking away some of those available resources, hence lower performance.
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It's enabled by default, too.
To disable it:
Hit the start button / windows key
Type in "settings" and hit enter
Click Gaming, game mode, and disable "use game mode".
Glad I did.
That's overcomplicated tbh? It smells like just reserving say 7/8 of cpu for the game and 1/8 for other processes through strict and severe thread affinity, which simultaneously doesn't help most gaming rigs (it's rare for background processes to want anywhere near that much) while also hurting them in performance troughs (that last 12.5% is hard reserved for other shit, unlike the status quo where a game can at least fight for all resources).