You may have other features and it is important to consider the weight of the game package.Įdited by moderator as the text was embedded in a single line. But this situation happened to me with online games, and pre-installed, like the sims. If one program is running then the PC simply cannot find where to cut something in order to optimize it. The gaming mode is most effective when the computer has to cope with many tasks at once - the installed Game Mode turns them off or takes them into the background and leaves all the power of the processor and video card for games. Your game can 'fly' on a powerful computer and the game mode is not needed at all, I have an old computer.Īnd I noticed that a powerful computer does without a mode, but the 'so-so' hardware option when starting the game is accompanied by the shutdown of most programs and processes. For everyday gaming, you should be locking frame limit respective to your monitor refresh rate so your gpu isn't over working at 100 the whole time, thus giving you a smoother frame rate.

There are other requirements here, you see. But other than that, the only benefit to doing high performance mode 24/7 is using your computer as a space heater to keep the house warm. Use hwinfo and type power in your Windows search bar, click power settings, click additional power settings, there youll find a list of power profiles that define min and Max CPU utilization during use. I also tested on the example of the game diablo 2 runes, which I described above in the comments. I can also add that there are some features of this mode.

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