Something to stay up for: Microsoft has been engaged on Low Latency Profile expertise for months, and Windows 11 customers ought to now begin to see the advantages of the brand new function. The newest Patch Tuesday replace can seemingly enhance efficiency throughout most apps and Win32 applications, reasonably than simply the Start menu and different components of the native Windows 11 interface.
Microsoft started rolling out the brand new Low Latency Profile (LLP) function to all Windows 11 customers earlier this week. The change is a part of KB5121003, this month’s Patch Tuesday replace for all supported Windows editions, and will have a big impression on efficiency throughout the Windows GUI, native OS apps, and even third-party software program constructed utilizing conventional Windows APIs reminiscent of Win32.
LLP makes use of a “race to sleep” design to rapidly deal with requests from functions which might be about to launch. The function briefly forces the CPU to spice up its frequency, probably making apps launch quicker.
LLP expertise debuted earlier this 12 months, with Microsoft bringing the function to Windows Explorer quickly after. The August replace expands LLP help to apps and third-party applications, probably enhancing their launch instances. Windows 11 has lengthy confronted criticism over its efficiency in contrast with Windows 10, however Microsoft is now making an attempt to reverse course and win again customers.
After putting in the KB5121003 replace, Windows Latest confirmed that LLP was certainly working as anticipated. Standard Windows apps reminiscent of Notepad and Calculator, net browsers like Chrome, and even the Epic Games Store took much less time to open and render their window content material.
Low Latency Profile is being delivered by way of the Controlled Feature Rollout system, which suggests it won’t arrive on all Windows 11 machines on the identical time. Impatient customers can force-enable the function by way of the ViveTool program.
Despite having a tangible constructive impression on Windows 11 efficiency, Low Latency Profile has been criticized as a “lazy trick” designed to artificially inflate the pace of a poorly optimized OS. Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman has come out in help of the function, explaining that Apple is doing basically the identical factor with macOS and that customers are embracing it. Furthermore, race-to-sleep is a regular function in Arm chips reminiscent of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 and Nvidia’s RTX Spark.