Windows 11 is getting faster, smoother, and more "console-like" for gaming

[acrossthestars]

Microsoft has now reached the point with Windows 11, where the Windows Explorer is such a lethargic, bloated piece of bug-infested, AI-slop-riddled trash, that it has to be pre-cached as part of the boot process, just to be approximately as responsive as it used to be on Windows 10. Their current operating system stack is competing with its immediate predecessor...and losing. Simultaneously, they are now feeling so threatened by Valve's SteamOS platform, that they are trying to optimize Windows 11 for gaming.

They really needs to pick a lane, because their one operating system cannot serve both interests. Gaming requires direct user input, which contravenes the imperative to make Windows operate autonomously with Copilot using voice commands. How Microsoft thinks nobody will notice this blatant contradiction is anyone's guess.

 

[koblongata]

Go! go! go! SteamOS!! XD

 

[LimyG]

It is a false positive - most likely triggered from the fact that the script that edits to the registry.
It's disheartening that you have to use third party powershell scripts to disable "features" you don't want.
Windows - for the sake of a computer you only use for office applications, browsers and gaming could be 1 fifth of the size and use less than half the memory if Microsoft didn't impose such massive data gathering for the sole purpose of selling your data

OK, thanks. I was pretty sure it was false. Thanks for confirming.

Also I agree with the rest of your post. Cheers.

Edit: I guess everyone agrees with it. What a bloated telemetry mess of code. There is a core OS in there somewhere. Be nice to have just that. Isn't that what OSs are supposed to do!

Let the user interact with software, and facilitate software/drivers etc to work properly with the hardware. That's all that I would want from an OS. All the software I want to install on my own terms, what I want. Nice not to be spied on while doing so too.

I'll dream on. (or powershell script it to something resembling an OS.)

 

[LimyG]

The only way MS could increase performance on their buggy W11 labyrinth of a code is to stop all the shenanigans in the background and then game devs could actually use the full resources of the hardware.

That's true, but they won't.
I guess it's powershell scripts!?!

 

[Coisa]

Funny. PC's have had the reputation of being faster all these years didn't it? Until Windows started dicking around with gaming.

 

[LimyG]

Funny. PC's have had the reputation of being faster all these years didn't it? Until Windows started dicking around with gaming.

Yes, it's incredible. HW properly matched, and even off the shelve PCs/Laptops are considerably more capable than just a few years back. DDR5, AMD CPUs etc.

However, it doesn't make windows more snappy. (and nothing can make it less annoying except tweak/scripts etc.)

Seems that the massive telemetry co-pilot, A.I. resource hog slows PCs down approx equal to the extra speed we should all be enjoing. Those with new HW.

It sucks.

 

[Win7User]

Any popular OS is gonna end up bloated in the end, as more people latch onto it, needing it to do more and more for security or other features.

windows is inevitable.

If, you purchase a Beelink Mini computers, they don't add any bloatware. I was surprised to say the least...

 

[Coisa]

Win 11 is getting faster??? Baloney! I actively use 3 desktops at home and 1 laptop to travel. I recently bought a laptop and built a desktop to comply with Win 11 obsolescence upgrade. My oldest PC is a AMD 2700x w/ Radeon RX 590xt. I just upgraded in in Oct from Win 10 to 11. Win 11 effectively killed much gaming at 1080P on it. Another desktop AMD 5800x w/ Radeon RX 6750XT just upgraded to 11. Win 11 made it run slower overall and gaming is now choppy, sometimes needing reboots after moving from graphics editing to gaming. Both these machines ran perfectly, even speedily, without performance issues before the upgrades. I'm tinkering with drivers but the improvements in speed after applying them are minimal

 

[sks9988]

"Windows is faster for gaming!"

This message brought to you by Microsoft Copilot.

 

[ioliveirafarias]

Too little, too late. I'm already giving up from windows amd the PC platform.