News Windows 11 Will Feature Dynamic Refresh Rate on the Desktop

[Admin]

Windows 11 will be the first OS from Microsoft to support dynamic refresh rate, allowing a computer's screen to lower its refresh rate to save power.

Windows 11 Will Feature Dynamic Refresh Rate on the Desktop : Read more

 

[ThatMouse]

GTX 1080 supports WDDM 2.7. No love for our repurposed PC's.

 

[Bandock]

This almost sounds like AMD's Radeon Chill, but for desktop on Windows 11 instead and for controlling the refresh rate instead of just limiting the frame rate. Allowing both the monitor and GPU to use less power and possibly run cooler when it's idle.

 

[salgado18]

• monitor with at least 120 Hz refresh rate
• WDDM 3.0 GPU
• apps built with the tech in mind

Sounds like almost nobody will use this for a long time

 

[hotaru.hino]

The caveats are probably just growing pains for implementing a feature for the first time.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

WDDM 3.0

I think we just found out what the real driving force behind Windows 11 will be.

 

[cgilley]

Windows 11 will be the first OS from Microsoft to support dynamic refresh rate, allowing a computer's screen to lower its refresh rate to save power.

Windows 11 Will Feature Dynamic Refresh Rate on the Desktop : Read more

stupid. Just an excuse to churn the users. In Windows 10, they added key features:

1. power saving - turn off USB devices by default, don't tell anyone. Left engineers and developers ripping their hair out wondering why everything stopped working.
2. Automatic reboots - left engineers and developers sticking needles in MS developers voodoo dolls, cursing their heritage.

Now Windows 11 is on the horizon. Mandatory UEFI nope, no thanks. Messing with the refresh rate - that won't be annoying.

Idea: fix your bugs. Fix your gaping security holes. Polish.