Those of you who are gaming on Windows 10 should know that Microsoft has just announced a brand new update for its operating system, an update that addresses certain gaming-related issues such as unlocked framerates in Universal Windows Platform games and applications. Furthermore, it looks like the update will also enable support for both Freesync and G-sync, which is definitely good news as these technologies can enable smooth and stutter-free gaming experiences. It is worth pointing out that developers will need to release their own patches in order to allow games to take advantage of these two features, and it’s likely that Forza Motorsport 6: APEX and Gears of War: UE will be the first titles to receive some attention. As for the lack of exclusive full-screen support in DirectX 12 games, Microsoft has issued the following statement:
“Full screen exclusive mode was created back in the original release of DirectDraw to provide games with enhanced performance when using the entire screen. The downside of full screen exclusive mode is that it makes the experience for gamers who wish to do other things on their system, such as alt-tab to another application or run the Windows GameDVR, more clunky with excessive flicker and transition time. We thought it would be cool if gamers could have the versatility of gaming in a window with the performance of full screen exclusive.
So, with Windows 10, DirectX 12 games which take up the entire screen perform just as well as the old full screen exclusive mode without any of the full screen exclusive mode disadvantages. This is true for both Win32 and UWP games which use DirectX 12. All of these games can seamlessly alt-tab, run GameDVR, and exhibit normal functionality of a window without any perf degradation vs full screen exclusive.”
Apparently, adding a fullscreen mode is not exactly a priority for Microsoft just yet, but maybe adding multi-GPU support for DX12 games is higher on the list. We can only hope.
Yea it would be better for MS to actually get up to speed, instead of forcing people to use the store by making games exclusive. If the store is good enough they won’t NEED to do this
What I can’t stand about the Microsoft store is that you have to go into your registry to change the download destination. I run a 120GB SSD for my boot/Windows drive. After Windows and a few other programs that like to live on drive C:, it doesn’t leave much room.
Thanks for the reminder, I’m down to 9GB on my 120GB ssd after downloading Forza the other day, and I’ve been wondering if it’s possible to change the directory to my D drive. Any chance you remember the reg location?
At settings – system – storage you should be able to change the location of apps and choose where it automaticly installs apps on.
Yea that worked for Forza, which is all I REALLY wanted to move. But for everything else the ‘Move’ button is greyed out or not there at all. Done the regedit thing too so hopefully anything else will now go to D: in future..
As far as I know, if the button is greyed out it’s not an app from the store but something you installed from anywhere else. You can move those yourself with a tool or reinstall. Atleast you can change the default app install location for the store in the settings there which is nice I guess? 😛
The way it is for me: Store apps have ‘move’, and normal applications have ‘modify’. About 95% of all these are greyed out. Both have ‘uninstall’ and about 50% of the system apps are greyed out. God knows who decides which apps get the uninstall option. I can uninstall Feedback Hub, but not Camera or OneNote etc..
Probably because those are default apps installed in windows 10. And that they need to be on the same partition as windows because of the files they use. Like I can’t move/delete camera or onenote either. But I can move or remove xbox one smartglass which I downloaded myself from the store.
You dont need to do anything in the registry bud, when i went to install “Forza” from the windows store, i got a popup telling me i could change the destination of “windows store apps” via the windows settings pane. I did not change the location, so i cant tell you if it works or not, but i would imagine it does when windows itself told me, its under the “default locations” settings, where you set, windows “video” “pictures” and “download” folders, you also set, “windows store apps” i agree its not as easy as it should be, but i can why they have it this way, they are going for a universal platform for all the devices running their OS, so the settings on PC are in the same kind of location they would be if you were on a windows surface or phone, but, without a touch screen, its not as simple to navigate, which is why everyone disliked windows 8.1 so much, that start screen was vile for KB n Mouse users.
Open the Action Center (button next to clock) > All Settings > System > Storage: Under Save Locations, New apps will save to: [Dropdown box to chose drive]
It was disabled for some reason when Win10 released but was enabled in an update sometime earlier this year.
when?