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Microsoft 'will be enabling VBS on most new PCs over this next year' and that can tank PC gaming performance by around 25%

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.

Update….

So Tom’s Hardware did their own tests. They tested Windows 11 with a i7-11700K, i7-10700K, Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 7 3800X. They used an RTX 3090 to eliminate a bottleneck at the GPU. They saw an average performance drop of 5% on Intel and 4% on AMD… with the highest drops 7% and 8% respectively. The older generations fare worse than the newest CPUs in performance drops.

Benchmarked: Do Windows 11’s Security Features Really Hobble Gaming Performance?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tomsha ... benchmarks

They also show you how to check if these performance killing features are turned on and tells you how to disable them. So it looks like this is an easy fix.

How to Disable VBS and Speed Up Windows 11

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tomsha ... windows-11