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let's face it adding more Graphics power

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to your system is expensive so it

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shouldn't come then as a surprise that there is no shortage of software

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Solutions out there that promise to

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enhance your gaming experience without

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an investment in more hardware and there

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have been a lot of flavors of software

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secret sauce over the years from

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nonsense like basic programs that just

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close the stuff you have open in the background to more credible Solutions

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like driver updates new apis like direct

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X12 and Vulcan and now Windows 10 game

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mode but is this a truly tasty addition

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to your gaming smorgus board or is it 2017's version of blast

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processing let's find out

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out G skills km780r RGB mechanical

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keyboard features a brushed aluminum top plate on the Fly macro recording and

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different Cherry MX switch configurations learn more at the link

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below so the second major update to Windows 10 called the creators update

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has a plethora of of new enhancements

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but we're going to be laser focused on game mode a feature that Microsoft

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builds as providing a better and more

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consistent gaming experience on Windows 10 by dedicating more system resources

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to your game sounds interesting but how

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does it work well using game mode is

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simple it can be enabled with one click from the settings app then when you load

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your game you open the Windows game bar by pressing the Windows key and G and

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ensure it's enabled for that specific game by clicking the little gear icon

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neat but can something this easy really

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make your gaming experience better and

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more consistent well since Microsoft seems to

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be making two separate claims here we decided to test each one of them

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individually by looking at average frame rates to determine if the experience was

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better overall as well as

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99.9% minimum FPS to judge the

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consistency of the experience for our

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game suite we went with DSX mankind divided ashes of The Benchmark and Gears

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of War 4 we were particularly interested

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in the latter as it's a universal Windows platform game and we wanted to

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see if its supposedly tighter integration with Microsoft Technology

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might make it behave a little differently for our test bed Z we

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actually used three different Hardware configurations which you can see on the

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screen right now the goal here was to represent modern high-end mid-range and

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budget oriented gaming setups so let's

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dive into the results and look first then at how game mode affected average

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frame rates hm not very much the

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difference between game mode and non-game mode benchmarks was only a

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frame or two per second across the board

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and sometimes not even that much with

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the exception of Gears 4 on our high-end

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system though I can't imagine why the vast majority of you would notice or

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care about the difference between 145 and

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154 FPS but as the college educated among

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you well know dips in performance can

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actually be more impactful than average

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frame rates so did game mode prevent or

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lessen slowdowns well we actually did see a

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difference in our minimum frame rates here but unfortunately it wasn't in the

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direction that you yes you Microsoft

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prre may have been hoping for both DSX

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and Ashes performed noticeably worse

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in direct X11 mode and the minimums on

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Gears 4 absolutely tanked on our

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high-end setup switching apis to

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directx12 didn't do us many favors

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except in Gears which did at least improve by 5 1/2 frames on our Core i5

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GTX 1060 system but still that

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precipitous drop on higher-end Hardware

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left us scratching our heads a little bit bit so what exactly is going on here

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did Microsoft management decide that the

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release of Windows Vista was far too long ago and they were overdue to give

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us another astonishingly poorly implemented piece of software well it's

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hard to say for certain but our hypothesis is that the problem actually

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isn't at least entirely the poor

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execution but rather that the overall

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concept as a whole is just kind of at

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its very core game mode is purportedly

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trying to divert more of your system

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resources to your games without

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answering the all important questions of

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one what resources are we talking about

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exactly and two are games really starved

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for them so the largest single defining

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factor in how modern games will perform is how powerful your graphics card is

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and I think it's pretty safe to say that no self-respecting gamer is putting a

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secondary load like Bitcoin mining or

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neural network simulation on their GPU

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in the background while they're playing metr last Light and then even for games

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that are considered more CPU bound they

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still usually don't use up so so much

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CPU time that they're going to be seriously affected by other programs

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running in the background partially because reasonably modern versions of

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Windows going back to 7 already do a pretty darn good job of deciding on the

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most sensible way to divvy up CPU time between all of your different tasks so

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why even bother releasing it then we've got a couple of ideas first up it could

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be that game mode was developed for users that have so many junkware

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applications or even outright malware like viruses running in the background

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that system resources are constantly tied up but we would suggest that in

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that case you probably have bigger problems than a few FPS in League of

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Legends and number two maybe they were

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going after lower end or older Hardware

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but then even our budget setup that included a du dual core CPU and a

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graphics card that doesn't even need an extra power connector didn't benefit

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from game mode to be fair to Microsoft

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our testing wasn't comprehensive so with

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the literally millions of combinations

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of Hardware games and game engines out

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there it's possible that there are folks

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out there having better luck with game mode than we did and we'd love to hear

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from you guys in the comments below but for our part especially in

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light of Microsoft's recent push to force Windows 10 users onto newer

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Hardware platforms game mode really feels like a

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solution seeking a problem for the

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