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So being cynical I'm guessing this is to push people to use the Microsoft overlay and DVR... Suspect I won't see much of an improvement as I don't have much else on my system but games and I really don't want another overlay!
2-5% erm i dont think i will bother :)Quote:
Originally Posted by HEXUS
i have many trick i use to improve gaming performance i.e.
1) using AMD crimson gaming profiles to alter v-sync, Anti aliasing, frame rate target control and Anistrophic filtering on a per game profile. (Or nvidia control panel if you have a Geforce GPU)
2) turning page file off (I have 16gb ram)
3) run a PC optimising program like Advanced systemcare or Auslogic boost speed (even though it has an annoying nag screen until you buy it)
4) use Autolargepage utility (I saw a massive increase in performance with this alone!!) links below if anyone want to try it..
http://forums.hexus.net/software/365...tml?highlight=
Its early days so maybe in a few months they will keep tweaking Windows game mode and it will become a must have, but for now nothing to get excited about..
This is quite an old solution (suspending tasks, processes), sure I had something similar yonks ago when Windows was even more of a resource hog and not optimised for gaming at all.
A lot of general utitlies had (or have) such 'Game' modes (System Mechanic & Advanced System Care IIRC, could be wrong)...
Did you watch the video? You can enable it via the window 10 settings. There's no need for the game overlayQuote:
Originally Posted by cheesemp
Thanks for that Ravens Nest, I for one have never heard of Autolargepage before, so I will give this a spin tonight when I get home (Going to try watch dogs 2 and then I will probably run some benchmarks on GTAV just to see the numbers). You have also reminded me to check if I have a page file set up as I also have 16GB ram, so kudos to you!
No I missed that in the article so thanks for pointing that out. Thats better - I can just turn it on and never touch it again. I won't be using the Xbox DVR or game overlay though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Primey0Did you watch the video? You can enable it via the window 10 settings. There's no need for the game overlayQuote:
Originally Posted by cheesemp
Nor have I. I have Windows 10 and uninstalling the 'crap' that comes with it. Essentially want to run it as effective as possible and my PC is gaming only so I don't mind the DVR as my XBO is hooked up besides the PC.Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilCycle
Quite fancy trying FH3 on my PC.
Don't think I'll ever use it, yes I do play games and my pc isn't high spec in anyone's eyes but I just hate half the junk that's bundled into windows 10 most of it is simply junk and it runs better once removed or disabled.
The frame rate boost is achived by altering the definition of a second to fit in with the standard Microsoft second which is a variable length of time that alters based on the current target frame rate
I supposed this can be looked at two ways:
If it is only 2% to 5%, there is not too much bloat in the background processes. Yet, it all you get is two to five and mostly in Universal Windows Platform (UWP) games than who give a flying flounder. It is not even worth the two fingers of effort to push Windows key + G.
So we had the pre-release hype about DX12 giving us unprecedented in-game effects and phenomenal increases in FPS across the board.
Then we had DX12 games and we were told we weren't seeing these gains yet because these games weren't being coded for DX12 first, and we'd have to wait for later games to prove this point.
So, is this stuff just around the corner, or nah?
It isn't about average performance though, it is about consistancy. The performance difference between a 2GB and 1GB graphics card might only be 5 percent, but it gets that average drop through stuttering so the minimum frame rate might be half the bigger memory card. Sounds like this will work in the same way, by partitioning the cpu to keep the system away the cores being used to run the game the frame rate should be more uniform.Quote:
Originally Posted by MonkeyKing1969
Having said that, I take a roughly 50% performance hit by playing games in Linux using a Wine emulation layer, "good enough" is better than using Windows ;)
Seems like a win win IMO, can't go wrong with free performance at the push of a button ;)
Exactly, so what if it's only a few percentage points? It's better than a punch in the knackers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Appliansys
I'm pretty sure that for many people, if Microsoft sent them £100 in the post they would still spend their time on forums moaning about it being in the wrong currency, delivered in the wrong envelope, why wasn't it paid into their account directly, why wasn't it more, not very secure letting the royal mail handle it, is it tax free, etc, etc.