Windows 10 could get a ‘Game Mode’ that focuses your rig’s processing resources on gaming

Today’s average gaming PC is more powerful than a PlayStation 4 or an Xbox One, but chances are that you probably also have several pieces of software taking up your processing power on your computer while you game. But Microsoft may have something in the works that could fix that.

The latest version of Windows 10 from Microsoft includes a dormant feature called “Game Mode” that will shift your PC’s CPU and GPU to prioritize the game over everything else (as first spotted by Twitter user h0x0d, who has uncovered Windows features before). By allocating resources away from background apps, games should perform better than when they are sharing compute cycles with Apple’s software update tool or whatever the hell else is running on your machine.

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