Just upgraded my OS to W11 (I know I'm late 🙃) and found by accident something called, 'Game Mode'.  At first I only saw a slight improvement when I turned it on because I was in the sim at the time, had Edge opened, and a few tabs open on top of that.  Then I stumbled across the reality that when using 'Game Mode' I couldn't start FS with IE or other apps running (found this out after closing FS).  I guess it made since but seeing we've all been around and know full well some of the OS features brought out are not fully thought out/realized and leave allot to be desired.  Not this time, GM actually made a difference, so it seemed when I got back into the sim.  I found noticeable improvements in areas that have third party scenery (said this in another thread).  What just got me tonight is when I tested in VR there was a serious improvement in smoothness.  I could turn up the settings where I couldn't before and still have a smooth experience.  So the advantage is noticeable and just like what others have said Windows 11 offers a slight improvement over Windows 10's performance, but you stack that on top of the 'Game Mode' feature and it's all the more better.  I guess you could say after all this time of 11 being out I held off because, 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'.  Go figure, after all the MS OS's I've had in the past this one actually made an improvement outside of a larger footprint on my HD.  Now I have to get used to not using programs on my PC while MSFS is running (exception being FSRealistic and add-on companion programs of that nature).🍺

 

Footnote: If this is already known and discussed I totally missed that conversation.😳 Didn't see anything about this in the W11 forum.

Edited July 25, 20232 yr by Dillon

FYI, I posted this outside the W11 discussion we're already having in case in the future someone does a search on this feature it's easier to find.  Mods can you move this to the W11 forum?  I'm sure this has been discussed in the W11 forum but I found nothing when doing a search.😶  This feature warrants further discussion or at least a mention in our community.

I think "Game Mode" is necessary to use with AMD for best performance, I'll try it again, I haven't tried having it enabled since i moved over to Win-11.

I have game mode enabled,but didn't notice a difference.

I think it needs to on for 4xxx series cards