Question about windows performance

[BenasBr]

I saw this somewhere and i want to ask if its true. Does setting Windows for best performance will eat more CPU and less GPU? What about setting it for best appearance?

[Sniperfox47]

3 minutes ago, BenasBr said:

I saw this somewhere and i want to ask if its true. Does setting Windows for best performance will eat more CPU and less GPU? What about setting it for best appearance?

Setting it for best performance turns off all of the pretty compositing settings that require a miniscule amount of GPU processing to display.

 

Setting it for best appearance turns these on.

 

If you have a 12 year old PC that's struggling to run Windows Vista/7/8/10 or an Intel Atom PC that for some stupid reason you installed 64 bit windows on like I did, then setting best performance will help. Otherwise it's such a negligible difference that you likely won't notice anything.

 

Neither setting will affect performance in full screen exclusive games since Windows disables all compositing in those anyways.

 

Neither setting will affect performance in full screen window games running on Windows 8 or 10 since Windows pauses compositing during these apps anyways.

[Mira Yurizaki]

While those options will eat int your GPU a bit and CPU, if you have a  powerful enough computer, they don't really do anything for performance.

 

Also shameless plug since I looked into this a bit: