Windows 11's next security feature may cost you gaming performance

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Windows 11's next security feature may cost you gaming performance Starting October 13th, Windows 11 will enable a security feature called Memory Integrity by default. It could slow games by up to 15 percent. Next month's Patch Tuesday falls on October 13th, and with that update, Microsoft will be enabling "Memory Integrity" on all Windows 11 systems that are still receiving updates, according to this Windows IT Pro blog post . Memory Integrity (also known as Hypervisor-Protected Code Integrity, or HVCI) has been around for some time, but it hasn't been enabled yet on many PCs.