How does Win10 recognize your various games to then allocate or turn off processes to give you more gaming power? I would have imaged we'd be able to select what games to add to this feature so I'm curious how Win10 itself will know what is a game versus editing software for example.
If you have Game Mode turned on and Game Bar activated, you hit Win+G while in game and the game bar will pop up. Click on the settings icon and the very top option is a checkbox that you can check that says "Use Game Mode for this game". That's basically how you add a game to the Game Mode whitelist.
Turn On or Off Game Mode in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Gaming Tutorials
Keep in mind that Game Mode doesn't work in all full screen games.
Awesome! Thank you Blackrose I'll give it a try.
I've turned on the Game Mode, but when I hit Win+G the Game Bar does not appear. I have most everything turned off with the exception of just the Game Mode Button. Do all the various settings have to be on for the Win+G to work?
Did you activate this under the Game Bar settings?
Buz; believe you need both these enabled, then press Win +G in game.
It works only in full screen mode and currently, from what I hear, with about 80 games. Which games are you trying to use it with.?
See this, after Win +G in ROTTR (DX12) with the above two settings and of course Game Mode ON.
I believe Battlefield 1 is 64 bit. It works in that game.
Understood. So essentially Game Mode functionality requires that the recording and broadcasting software be enabled. That's not necessarily what I want it to do because I don't know if the recording will drop frames or tax the CPU while recording. I'm currently using ShadowPlay to record games. I'm currently playing H1Z1 and Civilization VI. In reality I don't really need game mode to help with potential game performance as I play, but my concern would be how much does the "recording" aspect of Game Mode tax a games Frames.
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