Windows 10 PC games level up with FreeSync, G-Sync, and unlocked frame rate support - garciasuccall

After launching in a in earnest sad state, Personal computer games sold-out through Windows 10's Windows Entrepot now suck a little less with the addition of support for G-Sync and FreeSync monitors, as well as the ability to disable Vsync to unlock in-spirited couc rates.

And before you ask, yes, those features are indeed common in Personal computer gaming—which helps to drive home just how hobbled Personal computer games created as universal Windows apps were at launch. The Windows Store and universal Windows apps are designed to behave more like flying app stores or the Xbox than orthodox Personal computer programs, for exercise, sandboxing apps and preventing past software from tinkering with game code. That improves security, but removed or s of PC gaming's key advantages, such as the ability to run game mods, graphics enhancement software, and fles rate monitors like FRAPS.

Those limitations persist in situ but today's display-focused improvements are wanted indeed. Nvidia's G-Sync monitors and AMD's FreeSync monitors synchronize the refresh timing between your graphics card and your display, creating a sublimely smooth and tear-free experience. Gravely, it's good engineering science, and it's great to see Windows Store apps embrace it.

The fact that Windows Shop apps didn't financial support unlocked frame rates (or disabling Vsync, to put it another way) from the start was a farce to begin with, merely the nightmare's ending with Tuesday's update. Unfortunately, existing games packaged as universal Windows apps testament need to be updated to support the feature. Microsoft says Gears of War: Ultimate Edition and the recently released Forza Motorsport 6: Vertex will add unlocked frame rate support "in the very near future"—though since Forza Apex was released just last week, you'd think out that would've shipped with hold for this update already lurking in the game's encipher.

Ironically, crossbred laptops that have both interracial and discrete graphics (show: Microsoft's own Surface Christian Bible) don't yet work with unlatched put rates due to a bug. Womp womp.

*Forza 6: Apex* leave be unitary of the first Windows Store games to support unlocked frame rates.

The Windows 10 update that adds unlocked frame rate and FreeSync/G-Sync support will start a gradational wrap out later today, or you can download information technology immediately here once it's live.

Don't expect an update that adds support for privileged fullscreen mode in games, even so. PC gamers complained that Windows Store games lone support borderless fullscreen mode, which traditionally offered inferior functioning to exclusive fullscreen modal value since it didn't give your graphics card dedicated access to the secret plan. But tucked away in a note at the worst of a release about this update, Microsoft says:

"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 inside way disadvantages. This is true for both Win32 and UWP games which use DirectX 12. Whol of these games can seamlessly alt-tab, run GameDVR, and display normal functionality of a windowpane without any perf debasement vs full screen exclusive."

The impact on you at home: This update shows Microsoft staying true to its hope that it'll ameliorate the lacklustre feature set of PC games sold American Samoa universal Windows apps, and will be doubly wanted in Microsoft-published games that are only available via the Windows 10 Window Store, like Gears of War and Quantum Breaking. But since Windows Store apps continue to suffer from close to glaring drawbacks, we'd noneffervescent recommend purchasing Personal computer games like Ascent of the Tomb Raider on platforms corresponding Steam clean for now—though if Microsoft ever manages to bring universal Windows games up to feature parity with games oversubscribed as traditional PC programs, the addition of Xbox One cross-buy/get over-save features could be a killer feature for the Windows Store.