Windows 10: Why are Windows' "tiles" so horrible?

I really like the idea behind Windows tiles, but the concept has been horribly executed. I recently purchased a new desktop and for the first time, I wanted to put effort in to personalizing it. For me, this meant removing all icons from the desktop and optimizing my start menu. Now, tiles function fairly well for most apps. The massive exception unfortunately is games. Unless a game is available through Microsoft, using tiles is frustrating to say the least. You can't pin shortcuts to the start menu for one. Even if you figure out how to add them via the program data folder, they end up loo

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Maxwell and Pascal "secretly" use tile based rasterization

I suspect this is still not full tile based rendering the way ARM Mali does, keeping lists of geometry primitives per tile in each hierarchy level. This seems only tiling of a rasterization step.
In pipeline after geometry is done, gpu seems to run full pixel shader with full gpu on each first level tile serially from left to right, top to bottom. Second level could be as well done in immediate rasterization mode but coverage pattern using tiny tiles helps with cache hits - remember, maxwell and pascal have multiple levels of cache in their gpu. Tiles must be appropriately sized by driver to ensure best usage of gpu cache.

 

how to stop moving tiles

Hi Larry,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to follow the below steps in order to stop moving Windows live tiles.

• Right click on the live tile.
• Click on more option.
• select turn off live tile option.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

Thanks.

 

Live tiles not working Windows 10

I tried your suggestions, but when I got to the 'Apps & Features' list, none of my tiles were listed.

Thank-you for trying to help.