Every so often Windows is getting more and more bloated with each update or iteration. Leave muh gaming performance alone damnit!



I remember Windows 7/8 Pro consuming around 0.7GB of RAM on my machines. Now it's almost 2GB on W10, for what? Why let some non-critical task consume CPU cycles. I don't get it. While it can be argued that having something running in the background improves responsiveness of said "apps". What if I don't ever use them?



You have proper 3rd party programs that are far more useful and use less system resources.



I sometimes wish I could cut the OS up and just keep what I need to run it. I'm sure this sounds like Linux probably. I'm not willing to deal with the lower gaming performance though.



Around the time Vista was released people were making their own versions of Windows XP for "gaming" that cut out the bloat or most likely haphazardly made registry edits that most users were completely unaware of what they do as those kinds of releases never had any proper documentation. I wonder why that isn't a thing anymore. You can make a cut-down W10, but that only goes so far.



I wonder a lot how much Windows can get faster if abstraction layers and what-not were replaced by a more efficient system. Because what it looks to me is something what is Bethesda Game Studios are doing... just piling more stuff on top of something that was purpose built, later on made into big project with new things but at the cost of efficiency.



I'm sure this sounds like another whiny post. If it does to you, move on.

Posted on Mar 8th 2019, 17:43 Reply