Game Mode and Game Bar in Windows 10: so you can activate them and customize their operation

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You may not know it, but if you use your PC as a platform to play, you have at your disposal an improvement that optimizes the operation of your equipment to better exploit the features of each title. This is the Game Mode (Game DVR), an improvement that debuted in its day with Windows 10 Creators Update"

"The objective of Game Mode is to improve performance in games by optimizing team resources at all times so that they focus on exploiting the full potential of the title in question and nothing is wasted on functions that are not currently needed."

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Game Mode kicks in automatically. Windows knows when you start a game and automatically adapts system resources to the title in question, limiting those resources from being wasted on other tasks that are not currently necessary. It is very useful, but only if you use your computer to play. In short, Game Mode makes the operating system give the game a higher priority and lower the priority of the rest, even pausing services that are not strictly necessary."

"On the contrary, if we access through the Configuration Panel, within the Games and Game Mode section, this only serves to identify if our equipment is compatible with this type of function. "

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And with Game Mode simultaneously debuted the Game Bar, a bar that offers immediate access to a series of basic tools for gamers Through it we will have the possibility of taking screenshots, recording and broadcasting your games, even with the audio and video of a webcam if we have it."

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As we have already mentioned, Game Mode in Windows 10 does not require activation, since it is activated when it detects that we are running a title. However, we can force it to start working by pressing the Windows + G key combination thus avoiding having to access the Configuration Menu, which has also been removed this option."

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When you press Windows + G the system asks if you want to open the game bar. To do this, simply check a box next to the legend Yes, this is a game."

In automatic operation, if the system detects that we are running a game, Windows 10 activates the game mode automatically.

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Once we have the Game Bar on the screen we can access different functions. We can activate Game Mode by clicking on the icon in the shape of a gear wheel and then on the box Use game mode in this game."

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We can know if the Game Mode is active since in the Game Bar the corresponding icon appears colored. "

But we can also make a screenshot, record the video of what happens on the screen or perform _streaming_, something impossible in my case because my equipment is not compatible.

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From the Configuration Menu we can access, yes, to a personalization of the Game Bar so that we can establish which are the keys that give access to the different functions of the bar."

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In summary, the Game Mode is an improvement that allows us to take better advantage of the potential of some titles, yes, as long as we have enough _hardware_ to be able to run them ."