How To Boost Windows 11 Performance For Heavy Gaming #2023

Bycodemasters Writer

Since Microsoft announced the Windows 11 Operating System, they seem to be very confident about its performance regarding heavy PC gaming. When gamers gave this Windows Update a try they saw some issues just like Crashing, Shuttering & Low FPS.

Since then it has been a big debate. If you too have seen some similar issue in the New Windows 11 by Microsoft. You don’t need to be worried. Because this post is a complete guide about Boosting the Windows 11 for Heavy Gaming.

Let’s begin with a simple step.

1: Modify the power plan 

It is nothing more than some set to decide how your system is going to consume the energy of your battery. Fortunately, Windows 11 has a power plan mentioned as Ultimate Performance, that can have a great effect on your machine.

Follow the following steps to enable it.

    • Press Windows+R key and type the string ” powercfg. CPL ” in the text box and then press Enter.
    • Select the ” Ultimate Performance ” below
    • Now, Click on the start menu and type cmd in the search bar 
    • Left-click on the Command Prompt and click on Run as Administration
    • After that, paste the following command 
  • powercfg -duplicate scheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61
  • Once you have done everything as mentioned simply restart the system and then have a look at the performance.

2: Look for the Latest Windows Updates.

Developers are yet investing their whole time in fixing the bugs, as Windows 11 is quite new. You can be up to date with the latest version of Windows 11 by checking for updates manually.

  • Press the Windows+R key from your keyboard
  • And type Control Update in the search box and then click on OK.
  • Click on the Check For Updates button to look for the latest updates.
  •  If you find some updates available, update them and restart the system “if needed.”
  • Once you are done and restarted the system as well then check the system performance.

If you did not see a big difference then go for the following method.

3: Try to update all of your drivers

Updating to the latest Windows drivers is a proven method to optimize the Windows 11 performance for gaming.

There are many ways to update the Windows 11 drivers. You can simply go to the GPU manufacturer’s official website and look for the newly available driver to update manually.

But if you don’t want to bother yourself by manually searching and updating for the drivers then you can use Many tools to search and Update your system to the latest driver.

Check our list of most efficient tools to search and install the latest drivers with just one click

4:Turn off the VBS (Virtualization Based Security)

It is an option to use a chunk of memory to host other security features.

But it does make the system very secure. It affects the performance generally. If you do not use pirated versions of the games use the originals set up from the trusted source. Then you can turn this option off to increase system performance.

Here is how you can disable it.

  • Press the Windows+R key and type msinfo32 in the text box and press OK
  •  By scrolling down, you will find an option as Virtualization Based Security running.
  • If you saw it was running simply press the Windows key and type Core Isolation once occurred Click to open it.
  • Keep in mind that the Memory Integrity should not be ON

Once all is done, restart your computer to check the performance while gaming.

5:  Play the game as a new user.

Sometimes the particular apps, services & settings result in slowing down the system. If you want to make sure that your PC is facing the same issue. Then you need to play the game as a new user. This simple step will provide you with a complete news experience of Windows 11.

  • Click on Start Menu and search for Other Users
  • Now Select the Add Account inside the Other User
  • Fill in all of the needed info to register the new user 
  • When you have added the New User 
  • Restart the system and Sign in with the info of the Newly Created User.

We hope that this post is going to help you to fix the mentioned issues. And boost up the performance of your system for gaming. You can leave us a comment if you have any questions left in your mind.