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Earlier this month, we learned about Microsoft's upcoming ‘Game Mode' for Windows 10. At the time, we didn't know much about it outside of the fact that it aims to boost performance while running games. However, since then some new details have come out and it seems that ‘Game Mode' may actually just be a tool used to reduce the performance impact created by the Xbox App's DVR mode.
In an Xbox Wire blog recently, Microsoft confirmed that it would be introducing Game Mode to Windows 10 soon, writing that Microsoft's vision is “for Game Mode to optimise your Windows 10 PC for increased performance in gaming”. As pcgamesn points out, Game Mode only appears if you have the DVR activated in the Xbox app within the latest Windows Insider build. This indicates that perhaps its key purpose is to reduce the overhead created by the Xbox App's recording features.
The Xbox DVR is something that users have complained about in the past. In-fact some games will even warn you of the potential performance hit if you keep it activated, the most notable of which is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which has a pop-up message after launch.
So rather than offering increased performance, Game Mode may actually just reduce the performance hit created by other Windows services, like the DVR, which arrives turned on by default. Either way though, Windows DVR is a fairly redundant service, as both AMD and Nvidia offer their own low-level game recording functionality within GPU drivers. You would probably be better off using one of those instead.
KitGuru Says: The Xbox App's DVR mode is fairly redundant for most PC gamers as it is, unless you want to share recordings specifically with friends on Xbox One. We are still more or less speculating on Game Mode at this point though, so it may turn out to do a bit more than reduce DVR overhead when people can actually start using it.
I hope this is wrong I was looking forward to MS getting a bit more performance out of our hardware by making Windows give back some of the resources and put towards the games. I was not expecting anything huge but free performance boost is always a good thing.
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DVR off, fullscreen, make sure you close all ur torrent&porn downloaders, close all 100 tabs of facebook and forums. Then you should be set.
Fullscreen and DVR off basically leaves the entire GPU to the game. While closing everything else frees up ram and cpu.
If your pc/laptop doesnt idle at or close to 0% cpu with less than 2GB ram usage, then theres either updates goin on, or u got some viruses.
I turn off the Xbox DVR, I hate the message popping up every time I launch a game.
I tend to keep my gaming PC as lean as it can get. CPU 0-1% when idle. When going to game everything shut off that has nothing to do with the game. I have 32GB ram so ram usage almost always around 1.9-2.1GB usage. If I take out ram and go down to 16GB the usage goes down to 1.1-1.3GB usage. I think Windows just uses more for itself when you give it more I guess.
It does. It’s called Prefetch. It hails from the Vista era when everyone whined about RAM usage, as though RAM isn’t supposed to be used.
On all of my systems Superfetch is always disabled by me. It shortens SSD drive life from what I have heard.
so use powershell and uninstall xbox app.. Done…
sign I was hoping for more.
What cpu&gpu do you have? Clearly ram isnt an issue then lol, i have 32gb ram too and it idles about 1.7-1.9gb usage. My laptop with 16gb idles about 1.4gb.
I highly doubt it does. It preloads commonly used applications into RAM in anticipation of using them. Since, with it disabled, you’d use those applications anyway, thus reading from the SSD, there’s no harm in prefetching them into RAM.
Now, hibernation data and paging will shorten an SSD’s lifespan.
I am still on a i7 3770K @ 4.7Ghz 1.35volt Stable. 32GB DDR3 @ 2400Mhz. 2 Sapphire 390x Tri-x 8GB cards @ 1172Mhz & 6750Mhz memory will go higher but whats the point with 512 bit mem bus’s. My normal memory usage on boot and the system settles is about 1.9-2GB and CPU settles to 1-2% idle.
I am telling this because you asked not bragging as there is nothing really to brag about with the system it has a older Ivy i7 only DDR3 not DDR4 and last series AMD cards in it. Does it do the job right now yes and I am happy with the system at the moment but I do have the upgrade bug nagging at me…lol