Windows 10: Microsoft is working on a Game Mode for Windows 10

Read more: https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-working-game-mode-window

See also: Beam Streaming & Increased Performance Coming to Xbox One & Windows 10

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Microsoft should really sort this out quickly. There are many older games which do not work with Windows 10. There is no reason why Windows 10 should not be backwards compatible with older games. There could always be an emulator mode encoded in the o.s.
to allow for playing older games. Many people have spent a lot of money on older games which are now completely useless in Windows 10. Sort it out Microsoft.

 

Steam Compatibility problem.

I am having issues as well with Steam. We have dozens of games, (total war, elder scrolls etc...) and since we received our windows 10 upgrade from Microsoft,
all the games are locked in 3d mode. This does not appear to be an issue with the graphics card as I have updated to the latest Windows 10 drivers manually (obviously I have verified the 3d settings).
I asked the game Devs and was told its a Microsoft issue.

I know its a bad idea to upgrade the OS so early if you play games, but i was told "if it worked on Windows 8.1, it will work on Windows 10 seamlessly". I have checked the forums for some of the games, but most of the issues are with individual games, and
if they work or not. My games work, but they are all messed up in 3d mode with no way to understand what is driving the "3d" mode.

Any advice?

 

Posted the Windows Central article on this in the gaming section. They seem pretty confident that it will show up in Insider builds soon. As someone who games on my PC every night, I'm cautiously optimistic about this.

 

Yea this should be genuinely useful if done right. Maybe the button will be added to the action centre.

 

Hopefully it works with more than Windows Store games. Other wise it will be a waste of ssd and hard disk space.

 

Looks like an extension to Xbox mode does that mean UWP only ?
"Moreover, it seems like the Game Mode will be part of Microsoft’s Xbox brand just like “Xbox Game Streaming” or “Xbox Game DVR”
"Game Mode will apparently adjust the resource allocation in Windows 10 when it’s enabled to prioritize games over other applications and processes".
That's what third party "Optimisers" tried to do ,failing miserably.

 

I wonder if this will solve my COD Ghosts problem. (posted earlier).

 

They can't even solve their current DirectX 9 bug for Windows 8,8.1 & 10, where it limits video ram to only 4GB. Maybe it isn't a bug, they may have purposely broke DirectX 9, to try and force developers to use DirectX 10 and above. In any case, I am almost quite certain these are only for Windows Store games.

 

Sound interesting,i've been looking for that feature on Windows,lets hope that Game Mode will be integrated on Action Center,and with one click the Windows will close/disable all programs/services to provide best experience for gaming.

 

That sounds to me like an architerture limitation... I guess I can be mistaken, but DX versions prior to 10 were designed to run on 32 bit enviornments, meaning the libraries and API's were designed to allocate just 4GB max. Again, I can be mistaken...

 

Windows 10 Game Mode limited to Windows Store PC games.

Read more: Windows 10 Game Mode limited to Windows Store PC games

What a wasted opportunity.

 

Maybe even stupid but not at all surprising considering MS's relentless push to UWP.
On the other hand, many tried to make game "Sped-em-uppers" and failed miserably.

 

Why do I have the feeling this game mode only deactivates apps for "improving performance" but nothing else?

 

"third party"

Well there's your problem. Third partys try to butcher existing code, while Microsoft is free to rewrite code.