Windows 11’s VBS Feature Reportedly Cripples Gaming Performance by Up to 28 Percent

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Similar to its predecessor, Windows 11 will include a security setting called Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) that utilizes hardware virtualization to increase system security and reduce vulnerabilities in the operating system. New tests are suggesting that VBS can still have a dramatic impact on gaming performance, reducing frame rates by as much as 28 percent in select titles such as Shadow of the Tomb Raider under certain configurations.



VBS is enabled by default on fresh Windows 11 installs, according to an article from UL benchmarks:



In our testing with pre-release builds of Windows 11, a feature called Virtualization-based Security (VBS) causes performance to drop. VBS is enabled by default after a clean install of Windows 11, but not when upgrading from Windows 10. This means the same system can get different...

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