Windows Game Mode
Also searched as: game mode
What it does
Prioritizes the foreground game for CPU/GPU scheduling and holds back background interruptions.
The honest verdict
Modest, low-risk benefit on most rigs; larger on busy/background-heavy systems. Compy can toggle it for you. One catch: game-recording software (AMD ReLive, NVIDIA ShadowPlay / Instant Replay) often resets Game Mode to off at every login, so it can refuse to stay on after a restart — that's the recording app, not the toggle.
How Compy treats it
Where it genuinely fits a rig, Compy can recommend it — applied with a snapshot first and a one-click rollback after, like every change it makes.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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