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In this case gaming could be a lot better if they spawned a minimal VM for just the game and hibernated the rest of the OS. It would solve a lot of the windows
by CoolGuySteve 9y ago
In this case gaming could be a lot better if they spawned a minimal VM for just the game and hibernated the rest of the OS.
It would solve a lot of the windows gaming bullshit like Cortana popping an alert or filesystem indexing kicking off in the middle of Battlefield 1.
I'm not sure Microsoft's patchwork of fueding PMs will actually allow for something like that to happen but I can always dream.
PS: Apple already has technology to migrate GPU frame buffers across processes so that you can render video in one sandbox and display it in another. I used to work on it. Microsoft could be doing something similar.
- WorldMaker 9y agoIt's basically how the Xbox One already works.
- dogma1138 9y agoWDDM is doing the same each application gets its own virtual memory address space.
- Const-me 9y ago> if they spawned a minimal VM for just the game They don’t even need a full-blown VM, windows 10 has pico processes. That’s how windows subsystem for Linux works: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/05/23/pico-process-overview/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/05/23/pico-process...