Microsoft is adding a “Game Mode” to Windows 10 that’ll optimize the system for playing video games. We’ve known for a week or so that this feature was coming soon, and now Microsoft is starting to explain how it’ll work.

When a system goes into Game Mode, it’ll “prioritize CPU and GPU resources to your game,” according to a video Microsoft released today. The mode’s goal is supposed to be improving each game’s frame rate.

Microsoft is actually building a bunch of gaming functions directly into Windows, some of which aren’t strictly part of Game Mode. That includes a toolbar, called the Game Bar, that you can pull up at any time by pressing “Windows + G” to get shortcuts for taking screenshots, recording video, and broadcasting to Beam…

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