For everyday use leave your shit on Balanced. 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.įor 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. So maybe high performance for your sweaty 3dmark score. Step 3: On the Settings screen you will see an Xbox logo with the word Gaming next to it. Step 2: From the menu, move up to the Settings link. If you're not running any frame limiter on your game or gpu, you might see a more flat steady average of peak max fps. Step 1: On your Windows 10 computer, click on the Windows icon. I have been personally using high performance and balanced back and forth during gaming, bench marking, and streaming. How to Enable and Disable the Game Mode Actually, you dont need to manually turn on the Game Mode. Everyone should already be on Balanced by default. Use hwinfo and type power in your Windows search bar, click power settings, click additional power settings, there you'll find a list of power profiles that define min and Max CPU utilization during use. Your clock speed was going to normal speed from some other app or background task, probably whatever you were using to observe it.

Update: still false, Per u/hamiltonia, Game Mode would only override this behavior if and only if game mode is enabled AND there is a process running which is identified as being on microsoft's list of known games, or manual entry of a process to the list locally by the user.

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