Hardware Accelerator and Game Mode

[AceMVP8]

I was trying to figure out if I should have hardware accelerator on and game mode off or on. I see some people say yes and some say no in the windows 10 21h2 optimization guides for gaming and performance.  I have a Ryzen 5 3500 6 core 6 thread cpu. A Gtx 1650 4gb ddr5 and (2×8) 16 gb of 3200 gskill ripjaws 5. Any input would be greatly appreciated. 

[Crunchy Dragon]

I've never used Game Mode and I've never had any issues with performance in games that are optimized.

[GuiltySpark_]

Game Mode, as we discussed at length in another thread today, is entirely useless, especially for a Ryzen 5. On the 12 core and up CPU's it would half the CPU cores but even then, since Ryzen 3000 it hasn't been useful in any way. 

 

I see 6 cores and 6 threads, that's what a Ryzen 3500 should have, game mode is not enabled. 

 

I don't know what you specifically mean by "hardware accelerator" so I can't really help there.

[SkilledRebuilds]

With HAGS (Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling)

Depends game to game, Nvidia or AMD and few other factors like how good your hardware already can scale with other Hardware (Fast Ram for example)

 

In CODMW BR. my FPS rose, in RDR2 it did nothing..

 

As its a simple tickbox/reboot, compare yourself.. its real easy.

 

Not sure on game mode...maybe game mode for Windows is a "set some things the same as everyone else" parity mode for WinStore Games/Android ports.. maybe it's WinUpdate pause enabled and such while playing WinStore games...
 

[GoodBytes]

Try and see. 

Enable the feature, run benchmark, run games where you can accurately repeat what you are doing, look at the average FPS, look at the 1% lows, and make a decision.

 

Game Mode was designed for UWP games, and for Win32 ones help a bit low end CPUs by stopping stuff like indexing. This is in summary. And keep in mind, when I say low end, I mean low end, back when this feature was introduced.

[Alex Atkin UK]

17 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

Try and see. 

Enable the feature, run benchmark, run games where you can accurately repeat what you are doing, look at the average FPS, look at the 1% lows, and make a decision.

 

Game Mode was designed for UWP games, and for Win32 ones help a bit low end CPUs by stopping stuff like indexing. This is in summary. And keep in mind, when I say low end, I mean low end, back when this feature was introduced.

I believe its also supposed to stop Alt-Tab from working and generally prevent background processes from stealing focus such as notifications, so it can be useful.

[AceMVP8]

On 4/10/2022 at 10:58 PM, Alex Atkin UK said:

I believe its also supposed to stop Alt-Tab from working and generally prevent background processes from stealing focus such as notifications, so it can be useful.

Thanks for the advice. Trial and error. Thats probably the only way to see if it does anything. 

[Alex Atkin UK]

5 hours ago, AceMVP8 said:

Thanks for the advice. Trial and error. Thats probably the only way to see if it does anything. 

I honestly can't even remember if I have it enabled or not, probably not then I guess.