Windows 10 Game Mode hurts Call of Duty: Warzone performance

Posted on Thursday, May 07 2020 @ 9:53 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

TechPowerUp warns you should not use the Windows 10 Game Mode in combination with Call of Duty: Warzone. This feature, which was introduced with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709), is supposed to increase game performance by prioritizing system resources for the video game, but in this case the Game Mode actually hurts performance.

The Game Mode toggle reportedly causes Warzone to stutter, and sometimes even freeze. Apparently Windows 10 doesn't recognize it as a game. The issue affects users of both AMD and NVIDIA graphics hardware. It has so far been reproduced on the likes of the GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 980, RX 5700 XT, RX 570, RX 480, and R9 290.

At the moment, there's no fix other than manually disabling Game Mode.

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