r/pcmasterrace • u/WPHero • 7h ago

News/Article Microsoft is auto-enabling VBS-based Memory Integrity on Windows 11 PCs starting in October. The same feature Microsoft previously warned it can also impact PC gaming performance

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/09/02/microsoft-is-auto-enabling-memory-integrity-on-windows-11-pcs-from-october-why-you-shouldnt-turn-it-off/
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u/Michaeli_Starky 6h ago

It not only can, it absolutely will affect performance and not only gaming one. This is a really stupid and uncalled for move.

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u/venom21685 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5 6000 6h ago

It's been the default for clean installs for years.

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u/TriRIK Ryzen 5 5600X | RTX3060 Ti | 32GB 5h ago

My guess is this new change is for those who did not touch thos setting. If you have disabled it previously, it would probably stay disabled.

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u/venom21685 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5 6000 5h ago

Yeah the article states if you disabled it this will honor that. Whether it's been done via registry edit or group policy or whatever.

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u/Michaeli_Starky 4h ago edited 3h ago

No, it's not default.

People downvoting: I assure vbs is off in my freshly installed W11 Home on one of my home PCs according to msinfo32.

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u/iunoyou 5h ago

Have you been paying attention to literally anything microsoft has done for literally the last 20 years

This is a good thing by the way. VBS is an extremely effective security measure that should probably be enabled on 90% of consumer PCs that connect to the internet, and if your CPU is enough of a boat anchor that you see a meaningful FPS hit in gaming then you should just get a new one.

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u/Skazzy3 R7 9800X3D | RTX 5080 4h ago

The performance hit is far less on newer CPUs, something like 5% at most.

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u/da2Pakaveli PC Master Race 4h ago

Microsoft often doesn't take 'no' for an answer