Why and How to activate the game mode in Windows 10 Creators Update

In the newest version of Windows 10 is now a special regime, which should improve performance in computer games. Layfhaker figured out when to turn it on.

One of Windows indisputable advantages - the presence of a huge library of games. Too many users have long been gone over on Linux, continue to keep on the Windows hard disk drive because of this.

The Creators Update offer new services, which are designed to make use of Windows 10 as a gaming platform even more enjoyable. The operating system settings, there is a special section "Games", which concentrated all the associated parameters.

Open this section, and then navigate to the tab "game mode." Enable the option "Use the Game Mode." The same action can be performed directly in the game by pressing a combination of keys Win + G, and then activating the corresponding function in the gaming panel.

According to the developers, resulting in the game get the highest priority to ensure the highest quality graphics and performance. But how are things really?

according to testsConducted by the magazine PC World, a game mode activation leads to mixed results. If you do not run resource-intensive background tasks, the player will not feel any improvement on the computer. As you can see, the red bar (a game mode enabled) on the charts is almost equal to the blue (the game mode is turned off).

But then the researchers have launched on the computer playing video from YouTube, audio player, and anti-virus scanning of files. In this case, a new game mode was really useful. Through its use the minimum frame rate in a gaming application greatly increased.

We can not say that this innovation Windows 10 Creators Update It proved to be completely useless. In some scenarios, the game mode really helps improve performance. However, this occurs only when the computer is running many background applications.