MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weight Polaris Windows Core

Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by CoolGuySteve on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:40AM (#16258510)

In this case gaming could be a lot better if they spawned a minimal VM for just the game and hibernated the rest of the OS.

It would solve a lot of the windows gaming bullshit like Cortana popping an alert or filesystem indexing kicking off in the middle of Battlefield 1.

I'm not sure Microsoft's patchwork of fueding PMs will actually allow for something like that to happen but I can always dream.

PS: Apple already has technology to migrate GPU frame buffers across processes so that you can render video in one sandbox and display it in another. I used to work on it. Microsoft could be doing something similar.

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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by Const-me on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @04:00AM (#16263879)

> if they spawned a minimal VM for just the game

They don’t even need a full-blown VM, windows 10 has pico processes. That’s how windows subsystem for Linux works: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/05/23/pico-process...

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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by WorldMaker on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:53AM (#16258629)

It's basically how the Xbox One already works.

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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by dogma1138 on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:59PM (#16261007)

WDDM is doing the same each application gets its own virtual memory address space.

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