Windows 11 is finally here, and although it’s really good, it’s still early for the new operating system with some kinks to work – especially when it comes to playing PC.
Tom’s hardware did a test charge around the game performance on Windows 11, around two security features: VBS and HVCI. Both involve virtualization, so they are particularly heavy on processor performance and can reduce your gaming play performance up to 8% depending on TOM hardware tests.
This is certainly not enough to make your game PC suddenly worthless, and in many games, it’s probably not enough to notice, but you do not want to sacrifice no performance if you are not obliged. Generally, our tips are usually to avoid new versions of Windows for at least the first two weeks of each meaning, but even otherwise, tech svvy players may want to wait.
Fortunately, it does not seem that these features are enabled by default when you upgrade your own PC, but it seems that some PC manufacturers are driven by Microsoft to enable them.
5-8% Is it really this serious?
The PC game is such a broad and complicated world that it is almost impossible to find a value judgment that suits everyone and even the representation of a loss of performance. There will be people who are right at this threshold of 60 fps in their favorite game and losing up to 8% could reach them in the 1950s.
However, if your game PC is already overloaded for the games you usually play – I know my RTX 3090 and Ryzen 9 3900x is much more than ever that I will not need Final Fantasy XIV – you can not even notice . I upgraded on Windows 11 mainly because it was a bright new thing that was pushed into my face as well as sure feeling that I have a powerful hardware that I never really like to fear not Being able to hit this threshold of 60 fps – but I know I’m pretty alone in that.
Most people do not have this level of PC material at their disposal. And if you have a system with a Core Intel i5-9600K, 8 GB of RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, that loss of performance could be a huge case.
Patience, please
In the coming weeks and months, Windows 11 will only make more features and rich, which will make it more difficult to resist the upgrade. At the same time, however, Microsoft will also be work performance optimizations in the operating system because it adds more features.
At present, there is only one characteristic for players and it’s directTreage, which will bring SSD speeds compelling Xbox X series. It is certainly exciting stuff, but it’s not Not as if there are no games that even use this on PC, so it’s not really a reason to jump to upgrade.
At the moment, stick to Windows 10 will not close you play a future PC game, which I know at least. And, I do not know how much directTreat will even be necessary at the beginning.
Because at the end of the day, PC Games supporting Windows 7 and Windows 8 for years in the Windows 10 life, and it’s only when DirectX 12 came out to become really important for PC gamers to put level its operating system. I can not predict the future right now, but I can assume that it’s basically going in the same way for Windows 11.
At present, you do not have to modernize and that Windows 10 is both faster and more stable. So, if all you like to play is to play the best PC games without sacrificing the frame rate, it is probably better to stay on the software established for now. After all, it’s not going anywhere for a long time.