Fall Creators Update Feature Focus: Gaming
- Paul Thurrott
- Aug 31, 2017
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The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update offers some nice refinements to the gaming functionality that Microsoft previously provided in earlier releases.
Remember, the original Creators Update was a “big bang” release for gamers, adding such functionality as Game Mode, Mixer (originally Beam) game broadcasting, and simpler-than-ever screenshot and game clip recording and sharing from the Game bar.
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With the Fall Creators Update, Microsoft is building on these advancements. Here’s what you can expect.
Game bar improvements
The Windows 10 Game bar gets a number of nice improvements in the Fall Creators Update. Key among them are:
Game Mode toggle. Previously, you had to access Game bar settings in order to enable or disable Game Mode. Now you can do it directly from the Game bar.
HDR screenshot capabilities. The Game bar’s screenshot functionality now includes support for HDR.
Game settings improvements
Gaming settings—available from Settings > Gaming—has likewise been updated in the Fall Creators Update. Under Broadcasting, the new option “Broadcast game audio only” is enabled by default, so that your system sounds are not streamed as you broadcast. And you can also specify your broadcast language.
Also, Game Monitor, an anti-cheating platform, has been renamed to TruePlay, but it is still disabled by default.
Finally, a new Xbox Networking page in Gaming settings can help you find and resolve networking and other issues that might get in the way of your online gaming.
GPU monitoring in Task Manager
As I mentioned previously in Fall Creators Update Feature Focus: Task Manager, the Windows 10 Task Manager has been updated to track GPU performance, just as it did previously for the CPU, RAM, disk access, and networking. So each GPU in your PC will show up individually in the Performance tab, and you can see which processes are accessing which GPU, and how much, in the Processes tab.
