July 28, 20178 yr ...gave me a boost of about 3-4 FPS in any given situation. Game Mode engaged and nVidia 384.94 driver suite, is giving great, and sustainable FPS performance....
July 28, 20178 yr Game mode? I must be living under a rock, how do I enable that? Thanks, Alexander Colka
July 28, 20178 yr Settings --> Gamming, by clicking the gear Wheel icon in the Win menu... Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
July 30, 20178 yr Author 10 hours ago, bk2000 said: keep on dreaming... You keep on dreaming, lol. I'm enjoying what I posted...yep..keep dreaming...
July 31, 20178 yr I had read about this feature early on and there were a number of xp11 user discussions. Most had stated it crashed or did not do a thing for them. Some thought the problems were the nvidia drivers, others said it might be an addon causing xp to crash. Anyway I never really paid much attention after that. Just curious Mitch, did you have any issues, or were there any pre-adjustments that you may have had to make? Bob Officially retired
July 31, 20178 yr Interesting review here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3187171/windows/tested-windows-10s-game-mode-makes-unplayable-games-playable-sometimes.html The bottom line seems to be that it can help if your system is already struggling or you have a lot of background tasks running. i7-14700k | Asus ROG STRIX Z790-F Gaming WIFI | 32GB DDR5 RAM | MSI RTX 4080 Super | WD Black SN850X 1TB & 2TB | Corsair HX1000i ATX3.0 | MSI MAG401QR 40" monitor | Win 11 Pro 64-bit | Meta Quest 3
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July 31, 20178 yr 35 minutes ago, vortex681 said: Interesting review here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3187171/windows/tested-windows-10s-game-mode-makes-unplayable-games-playable-sometimes.html The bottom line seems to be that it can help if your system is already struggling or you have a lot of background tasks running. Yep, I haven't bothered with it, because I run a pretty clean system. I do have Plan-G and a Chrome browser running in the background when flying, but that's about it. With 32 GB of RAM I've got overhead to spare for background apps that aren't tying up the CPU or GPU. I know where my main bottleneck is right now, and it's the GPU. I need a better video card, eventually. Game Mode won't help with that. X-Plane and Microsoft Flight Simulator on Windows 10 i7 6700 4.0 GHz, 32 GB RAM, GTX 1660 ti, 1920x1200 monitor
July 31, 20178 yr Wow, did not even know I had it. The win version # apparently is the key. So I do have it, but how do you know it's engaged? Bob Officially retired
July 31, 20178 yr Author 2 hours ago, N1G said: I had read about this feature early on and there were a number of xp11 user discussions. Most had stated it crashed or did not do a thing for them. Some thought the problems were the nvidia drivers, others said it might be an addon causing xp to crash. Anyway I never really paid much attention after that. Just curious Mitch, did you have any issues, or were there any pre-adjustments that you may have had to make? Bob None, whatsoever, Bob. I just updated to the lastest W10 CU, updated to the lastest nVidia driver suite. Rebooted, loaded up a flight...set the Game Mode as 'aware' of XP11...and let 'er rip. 3 to 4 FPS, on average better, right off the bat. No CTD's...nothing but great performance with lots of trips to the mid 50's for FPS along the flight....mean average of 37-40. Nothing to complain about. XP11 as it is now...is fabulous. I believe that a lot of people don't even have the game mode properly configured or set. You have to tag your flight sim, or whatever else you want it to address and make Game Mode aware of it. It will then remember, and when you run that program or flight sim...it will automatically kick in...and cull unnecessary background proc's for the duration. A great feature...and one that brought me over to Creator's Update.
July 31, 20178 yr Author 20 minutes ago, N1G said: Wow, did not even know I had it. The win version # apparently is the key. So I do have it, but how do you know it's engaged? Bob To bring up the console, you press Windows-G...and then it will ask you if you want to run Game Mode WITH the program (game) you are running. If you tag yes...it will add that game/flight sim to its config..and you don't have to do a think more about it. Set 'n Forget. Game Mode and the nVidia 384.94 driver suite, is just deadly!!!!
July 31, 20178 yr Author 38 minutes ago, Richdem said: Do you need Windows 10 Pro for X-Plane or will Win 10 Home suffice? I think it comes with the Creator's Update, regardless of Pro or Home it is updating. I could be wrong...for I do run Pro.
July 31, 20178 yr Thanks, I was able to choose xp in game mode. Will see if my eyes bulge out when I fly around the KSEA area (-: Bob Officially retired
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