

The most significant decrease was in Wolfenstein: Youngblood (Riverside). All games were tested three times then I took an average: FHD (W10) FHD (W11) Forza Horizon 4 105 fps 100 fps Gears 5 81 fps 78 fps Call of Duty: Warzone* 78 fps 74 fps Heroes of the Storm* 100 fps 98 fps Wolfenstein: Youngblood (Riverside) 106 fps 99 fps Wolfenstein: Youngblood (Lab X) 84 fps 83 fps Middle-Earth: Shadow of War 84 fps 84 fpsĪs you can see, there is a little bit of a frame rate drop in Windows 11 compared to Windows 10 in most games. I then tested the in-game benchmarks for several games in both Windows 10 and Windows 11 (games with an * were benchmarked using in-game FPS counters and then averaged accordingly). 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11735H Special Edition quad-core processor.Our test machine has the following specifications: After checking in with Acer PR, they gave us the go-ahead to upgrade for this comparison post.

During our time with it, we were offered the Windows 11 upgrade through the Windows Update page. We recently had the Acer Predator Triton 300 SE gaming laptop for review (which is coming soon). Again, if you choose to, you may be putting your computer at more risk without these enhanced security features. If you find that it is enabled, there are ways you might be able to disable it. So, fortunately, if you’re upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 and are not running in an Enterprise environment, you should be o.k. “It’s a feature mainly intended for enterprise customers to be able to lock down the corporate PCs they drop into their offices and make sure they don’t get compromised.” PC Gamer It basically creates an isolated subsystem that helps prevent malware from screwing your PC. “The issue is Virtualization-Based Security (VBS), a setting introduced into Windows 10 which uses hardware and software virtualisation to enhance the security of your system. This is due to Microsoft wanting to enable Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) in partnership with its OEMs on new systems. We decided to upgrade a Windows 10 gaming laptop to Windows 11 and find out for ourselves.Īccording to PC Gamer, you’ll likely run into performance issues with a pre-built system. While they state that “if you’re a gamer, Windows 11 was made for you,” a recent article over at PC Gamer indicates that Windows 11 can “hobble” gaming performance. Windows 11 is now widely available, and Microsoft is courting gamers with the latest operating system.
