Microsoft can’t be said to be on the move with its latest desktop operating system, and after the licensing mess, we reiterate that Windows 11 23H2 causes performance issues in at least some video games. Unfortunately, this is not the first time this system has caused problems on this front, rather it happens quite often.

User Anant Acharya on the official Microsoft forums collected data on the latest occurrence of performance loss in video games in Windows 11. This person said that he has a 2020 HP Pavilion gaming laptop, so it is a high-performance device.

Acharya said that before receiving Windows 11 23H2, his HP Pavilion laptop was able to reach 130 frames per second in games like Valorant, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Grand Theft Auto 5, three titles that weren’t realistic. particularly demanding in terms of hardware requirements, the first because it was designed that way and the other two because they are quite old. On the other hand, he also stated that he was able to achieve 80-90 frames in newer triple-A games such as Forza Horizon 5 on high graphics settings.

This good experience with Anant Acharya came to naught after he received Windows 11 23H2 and you will experience sharp drops in frame rate and problems with stutterwhich, depending on the user version, are not caused thermal throttlinG, as you have not experienced any significant temperature changes after applying the update. The expected good temperatures are enhanced by a cooling base and an air-conditioned room.

One user’s report may not be news in itself, but if others are reporting the same thing, there may be a problem with the software. In addition to Anant Acharya’s message, a user named BNSoul posted this on Reddit A clean install of Windows 11 23H2 provided 5 to 8 percent less performance than 22H2. in almost all the tests she performed.

BNSoul also found problems with stutter and others related to performance, so he finally decided to go back to Windows 11 22H2 to restore the best performance of his computer, which consists of a GIGABYTE Aorus X570 Elite motherboard, an AMD Ryzen 5800X processor, 32 GB RAM at 3800 MHz , a graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 and two 2TB Samsung 980 Pro SSDs.

In this situation, The Redmond giant was forced to respond and provided a solution which involves first resetting Microsoft Defender with a few PowerShell commands, restarting the computer, and then enabling CPU virtualization support in the BIOS settings. You then need to open Windows Security and enable “Memory Integrity” in the “Kernel Isolation” setting, which also requires a computer restart to start the hypervisor and enable virtualization security. Let’s leave the PowerShell commands published by BNSoul:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.SecHealthUI -AllUsers | Reset-AppxPackage

After editing his original report, BNSoul commented that After using the recipe that Microsoft provided, she was able to restore the best performance in general which I got in Windows 11 23H2 at the processor level, while the graphics card was able to go 3 to 5 percent faster.

While this is a problem with a solution, it cannot be denied that it is somewhat complex for an operating system with a reputation for being easy.