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One of the features of the Windows 10 Game Mode is that it raises the thread priority of the application. This proved incredibly useful for me in some games - m
by artimaeis 9y ago
One of the features of the Windows 10 Game Mode is that it raises the thread priority of the application. This proved incredibly useful for me in some games - most notably GTA 5 - and in a lot of other games it didn't seem to do anything at all. I'm pretty thankful for the feature - because manually raising the thread priority every time I open the application was a very unnecessary pain.
- revelation 9y agoWindows has raised the thread priority of the foreground program since at least 95...
- vonmoltke 9y agoThat mechanism only boosts the priority of whatever thread is actually attached to the window in the foreground. This doesn't matter for single-threaded applications (obviously), but means the background threads can get lower priority than the main threads of other applications.
- komali2 9y agoHow is that different than ctrl + shift + escape, selecting the program, and clicking "high priority?"