Windows Game Mode On or Off?

[nbhall68 106]

Does anybody have any experience with this?  The recent advice on the Internet has been to keep it off because if causes problems (stutters, etc) in some games.  But I'm not sure what the current status is of "game mode" on Windows 10.  It's a cool idea (reducing background tasks and such) but I've never really seen a positive review of it.

Does anybody run with this on and have you had it on in MSFS 2020?  What has your experience been with it?

My primary interest in game mode is the built-in FPS counter but there are plenty of other ways to do that so if game mode is questionable then I'll probably just opt for something else.

 

[dpcnh1 44]

Well it's likely to vary from system to system anyway so the best thing to do is give it a try.  Fly for a while with it on and then with it off.  See if you notice a difference on your system.

[MrFuzzy 2,118]

As far as I know, Game mode helps only in case you have a very slow CPU, such as i3 / Ryzen 3.

With anything better than 4 logical cores it does more harm than good, anyway it takes only a few minutes to try it... let us know.

[Slowhand 1]

Just had a try on the fly with developer mode on. Game mode on of off, made no significant change in FPS for me. I leave it off.

Edited September 6, 2020 by Slowhand

[Ixoye 1,821]

I have it set to off after recommendations here at the forum, but I can't say I've noticed any difference.

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,798]

I have it off and set priorities in Process lasso instead.

[bobcat999 8,473]

I have a 1080Ti and have also never noticed any difference with either game mode on or off, or with the new windows GPU reduce latency setting on or off.

'threaded optimisation' on or off in Nvidia control panel is another ambiguous one. 
I don't think I have seen any difference any way, but some people swear it should be off, and some say on!  I leave mine off for now, but I am not sure I have ever heard anyone explain what it actually does.

[Romeo_Tango 143]

3 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

I have it off and set priorities in Process lasso instead.

Hi.

Could you share your Process Lasso configuration re MSFS? I've heard it helps MSFS but that it has to be configured properly or it makes matters worse.

Thanks.

PS. I now use MSFS exclusively in VR mode (HP G2)

Edited January 3, 2021 by Romeo_Tango
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[captain420 3,099]

You don't need process lasso to set the priority. The default task mgr works as well.

[Sphynnx 91]

1 minute ago, captain420 said:

You don't need process lasso to set the priority. The default task mgr works as well.

After restart, does it still work? 

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,798]

25 minutes ago, Romeo_Tango said:

Hi.

Could you share your Process Lasso configuration re MSFS? I've heard it helps MSFS but that it has to be configured properly or it makes matters worse.

Thanks.

PS. I now use MSFS exclusively in VR mode (HP G2)

Basically set process priority high, IO priority high and power to bitsum high performance and locked MSFS to CPU cores 1 to 5  then did something similar for trackIr except locked it to CPU O .

Never really tested it though so cannot say  what difference it made if any.

 

[Romeo_Tango 143]

2 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Basically set process priority high, IO priority high and power to bitsum high performance and locked MSFS to CPU cores 1 to 5  then did something similar for trackIr except locked it to CPU O .

Never really tested it though so cannot say  what difference it made if any.

 

Thank you Glenn.