We've tested a selection of games on the current release build of Windows 11, with VBS off and VBS enabled (though not actually running) and the impact is obvious. Far Cry New Dawn is the outlier here, which barely shrugs at VBS, with just a 5% reduction in frame rate. But Horizon Zero Dawn drops by some 25%, Metro Exodus by 24%, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider by 28%. Interestingly, the 3DMark Time Spy score only dropped by 10%.
https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-11-pcs- ... rformance/
I just ordered a new Lonovo gaming laptop and it’s supposed to have Windows 11 installed. If you upgrade from Windows 10 to 11, this VBS is not on by default. But brand new installs will at some point have it and OEMs are gonna have it enabled standard over the next year. Hopefully they come up with a fix or a registry edit to disable it. Otherwise I might have to buy a copy of Windows 10 and clean install it on my new laptop. So basically if you have an RTX 3000 series card, it could perform similar to it’s RTX 2000 series model predecessor. It of course will kill the performance of a 2000 series card as well and so on and so forth.
Hopefully I’ll get the laptop with an early version of 11 that doesn’t have it enabled. I have a few months before it comes. There has been speculation that maybe OEMs will somehow exempt it for their gaming laptops specifically. It could kill the point of buying a new gaming PC.. at least one from an OEM. Otherwise you are paying today’s prices for last generation’s GPU performance. They need to get this sorted out.
