You’ll need to do this separately for every game that isn’t on Microsoft’s whitelist (which will be updated periodically). Open the Settings portion of the Game Bar and you’ll find an option to activate Game Mode.
Those will be turned on by default,” Gammill told Rock Paper Shotgun.īut you’ll be able to enable-or disable-Game Mode for any game at any time by pressing Win + G to bring up the Windows Game Bar while you’re playing it. “We will have what we call kind of an approved list or whitelist of games that we feel super-comfortable about and we want to enable out of the gate. You’ll need to enable Game Mode in the new Gaming options found in the Windows 10 Creators Update’s Settings. See the Xbox logo in the center? Those are the new Gaming settings, where you can enable Windows 10’s Game Mode. UWP is more of a contained package, and you know where it starts and stops.” Microsoft
Update: Since theres apparently no way to resolve this issue without the use of external tools, Ive just used AutoHotkey to create a simple script to specifically minimize WoW:z:: WinMinimize World of Warcraft return Causes Alt+Z to minimize the game, just look at the AHK documentation to see how to. “You could have a number of Windows services running, we don’t know if that’s part of the game or not, that the game’s calling into. The same thing also occurs in Windows 10. “There’s no way at the platform level to really know where a game starts and stops,” Gammill told PC Gamer.
