Microsoft's Windows 10 "Game Mode" is battleship and actually makes games perform worse

[Legend]

Microsoft's Windows 10 "Game Mode" is battleship and actually makes games perform worse - NeoGAF

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 Minimum frame rates took a huge blow when Game Mode was turned on. Average frame rate hovered around the same number or was 2-3 frames lower or higher in the different games and set ups tested.
 Games Tested:
 Deus Ex Mankind Divided
 Gears of War 4
 Ashes of the Singularity
 Why would Microsoft include such a terrible feature in the creators update? Seems like another case of Microsoft's lying PR. This feels like The Cloud 2.0. Back when it was first announced in October I was hoping this mode would take some of the system resources (like it says in the blog post) to help run the games better but it did nothing or made games worse.
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[the-pi-guy]

#Secret Sauce
(Don't actually put sauce in your system, it'll make things worse.  Trust MS, they just tried it...)

[Raven]

I can't help but picture Microsoft as the big, dumb idiot of the gaming industry right now. They can be lovable at times and you just wanna hug them when they do something right, but then they so often screw it up. Like I just picture this Hodor looking idiot going, "I did good, yeah?! Okay! I shoot myself in the foot now! *BAM* OWWIE! Why you no tell me that hurts?!.... Imma do it again!"

[BasilZero]

Can someone explain what Game mode is?


Is it like Steam big picture mode?

[the-pi-guy]

Can someone explain what Game mode is?

It is supposed to optimize the system for games.
Supposedly making the system focus on the game and getting better performance.  

That's all it is.  

[Legend]

Can someone explain what Game mode is?


Is it like Steam big picture mode?

It was marketed as a way to make games run better. In game mode, the game gets 100% priority and should run more efficiently similar to a console.

edt: oh, Pi's awake!

[the-pi-guy]

It'd be funny if all it ended up doing was checking the system, and windows didn't let it actually use any of the resources.  
So the only thing it ends up doing is checking the system constantly and reporting there's no additional resources and just ending up being a drain.  

[BasilZero]

It is supposed to optimize the system for games.
Supposedly making the system focus on the game and getting better performance.  

That's all it is.  

Eh, thats it? There are programs already available that can do that XD.