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Launched at the end of May before seeing its deployment finally suspended temporarily by Microsoft, the May update will soon offer an additional novelty: planning support GPU. We explain how this feature could give a boost to the graphics performance of your PC.
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If it crosses a small area of turbulence, the may update brings a number of significant innovations. Among these new features, support for WDDM 2.7 (Windows Display Driver Model), which does not yet integrate GPU planning… but the thing is on the way, tells us Windows Latest.
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What is GPU planning for?
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The planning of hardware accelerated GPUs, to be completely precise, allows a dedicated graphics card (AMD or NVIDIA) or an integrated graphics part (iGPU present on some AMD and Intel processors) to manage itself and without intermediary its own video memory. What unlock better graphics performance, reduced latency, increased minimum framerate and in some cases improved video playback.
This innovation promises to be promising … but it is not yet fully up to date. As the specialized site explains, GPU planning is not yet supported by the latest drivers from AMD, Intel or NVIDIA. However, it should become general soon.
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A novelty not yet available, but it’s coming soon
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NVIDIA says that it added support for the May update to its latest driver (Game Ready 446.14 WHQL), but support for WDDM 2.7 has only been added to the developer version of the driver 450.99, still in progress of development. As for GPU planning, it is also well added to the 450.99 driver, but is not yet officially supported and may not work, explains NVIDIA.
There is a way to force its installation, after installing the said driver, by cheating with the Windows 10 registry. To do this, go to the directory “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control GraphicsDrivers”, find the mention ” HwSchMode “and change its DWORD value (set to” 1 “to deactivate it and to” 2 “to activate it).
Intel, for its part, has not yet said a word about the support of this novelty for the iGPUs of its different processors, while AMD has confirmed that the thing is well planned … without mentioning a specific deployment window on its drivers graphics.
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