Windows 11’s next security feature may cost you gaming performance
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OS vendors are now willing to tax frame rates to harden the kernel by default—Memory Integrity / HVCI going on for all supported Windows 11 machines is that line in the sand. If you ship performance-sensitive desktop software, you need to test against this security posture now, not wait for support tickets from gamers with suddenly-worse benchmarks.
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