It sounds like a great idea, but really this just sounds to me like a big fat dumb workaround, on an otherwise very popular system that doesn't handle these things as good as it could.
Looks to me like actually improving the core system would be a better way of going about it. Works for (literally) everyone else too.
[QUOTE=mastersrp;51726013]It sounds like a great idea, but really this just sounds to me like a big fat dumb workaround, on an otherwise very popular system that doesn't handle these things as good as it could.
[B]Looks to me like actually improving the core system would be a better way of going about it. Works for (literally) everyone else too[/B].[/QUOTE]
What core system are you even talking about?
What they're doing with Game Mode is the closest thing you'll get to a performance increase on the OS level, by giving scheduling priority to your game, without compromising the ability to use the OS in the background.
Hell, even current-gen consoles do it like this, the PS4 and Xbone both have 8 cores, but one is reserved for the OS when a game is running. Obviously you can dedicate all resources to the GPU on a console OS, but if you'd do the same on a windows machine you'll probably crash all other programs drawing to the screen.
[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;51726263]What core system are you even talking about?
What they're doing with Game Mode is the closest thing you'll get to a performance increase on the OS level, by giving scheduling priority to your game, without compromising the ability to use the OS in the background.[/QUOTE]
Improved general schedulers, the ability to switch between them or indeed a system intelligent enough to automatically switch between them, is one of the ways to improve performance. I'm guessing that's what they're aiming for down the line.
However, this is, in the short time, far from being the only reasonable solution to such a massive problem, another one of them could be to reduce the massive fuckwaste of callstack abstractions just to make anything happen at all. I get that security is a big bonus of having a massively complex system but that's only incidental.
What I'm really worried about here is that Microsoft, once again, will leave their core system (being anything between and including the kernel, and user space, although sometimes also things in between and above) an unusable slow mess.
I realize that a lot of people are satisfied with the better performance of Windows 10 but I can't help think that this is a truth based on falsehoods.
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