K-Lite Codec Pack Update. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. Malwarebytes AdwCleaner. GameMode for Windows 10 1. Booo 2. Not Geeky 3. Average 4. The difficulty comes in finding a way to introduce a consistent workload on a system. Game Mode is in early beta, and that they're still looking at the feature and a variety of ways to make it better. That means all the testing I've done so far probably won't even be representative of what Game Mode offers in six months.
Which is good, because the feature needs work right now, but bad because it means early testing is just that: early. For this first round I opted to ignore the potential for Game Mode to help more when a system is running 'dirty' and instead see if it can improve performance even when there's not a bunch of extra junk in the way.
I did fire up a few utilities just to produce a bit of extra load, specifically, I ran MSI Afterburner and left the monitoring tab open, and I ran Task Manager and left that up. Both of these utilities put a very small load maybe a few percent at most on the system, but at least they're a consistent load. The test hardware consists of a shiny-new Kaby Lake testbed, which you can see in the boxout.
The reasons for the limited testing will become apparent as soon as you see the charts. Finally, since I wanted to really get a good idea of whether Game Mode is helping or I'm just seeing minor variations between runs, I tested each game five times and averaged the results after checking for outliers. That makes the figures I'm reporting more statistically significant than if I were to only run each card once, though it doesn't make the results practically significant.
Starting with the Core iK, it shows no benefit to Game Mode in the games I tested, with four showing equal to slightly lower performance percent slower with Game Mode on , and one game, Hitman, showing a clear drop four percent lower average, and 10 percent lower minimum fps. Hitman is a bit of a surprise, since it tends to be one of the few games that shows much in the way of scaling with CPU performance. I actually expected it to be a case where Game Mode would help, but clearly that didn't happen.
Of the other four games, The Division does show slightly better minimum fps, but everything else is a wash or slightly worse. Swapping out the CPU for a slightly lower clocked dual-core iK, Game Mode doesn't look quite so bad… or maybe it does.
Two of the games, Ashes of the Singularity and GTAV, now show a minor percent increase in both average and minimum fps. The other three all show a drop, though in the case of The Division it's negligible percent. Gears of War 4 is now down percent, and Hitman goes from bad to worse, showing an even larger percent drop in performance. I didn't find any situations with either GPU using an iK where Game Mode provided a meaningful improvement, and the Ti in particular appears to be the bottleneck in nearly all cases.
There are situations like Hitman where Game Mode is clearly getting in the way, but everywhere else the change in performance isn't particularly noteworthy. One thing you also need to be aware of with Game Mode is that it requires using the Windows Insider preview builds. Game Mode can also be enabled for individual apps through the Game bar. On the Game bar, click on the button with the gear icon and tick the option Use Game Mode for this game.
See the screenshot below. Once you enable the option, the operating system will dedicate system resources to prioritize the selected game and improve your gaming experience. What's new in GameMode Windows 10 1. GameMode Windows 10 was reviewed by Catalin Chelariu. Load comments. GameMode Windows 10 1. All rights reserved.
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