Increase FPS with Vt-d off

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Hi guys just came across this post, decided to give it a try and guess what?
Maybe it really works?
Vt-d on
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Vt-d off

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I simply hook up a keyboard and adjust the setting in BIOS
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Hello everyone,
I can confirm it, started Lords of the Fallen (2023) without moving, changing anything and had 30-33fps.
After disabling vt-d I had 38-40fps. Same settings, same position etc.
 
Someone posted an improvement on Reddit for Forza Horizon 5 from 40 to 62fps.
 
Virtualisation for the win! It chomps a lot of CPU power.
I think this should be disabled by default. Better performance out of the box.
 
Works in spider-man and horizon zero dawn too. Slight boost in Diablo 4. Also a huge boost to Farcry 6 and trepang2… so… looks like a boost for just about everything
 
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It works can confirm helldivers 45 fps with on 50 FPS with off.
Edit don't touch virtualization kills fingerprint reader if you dissable
 
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hello, which one need to disable in BIOS?
intel virtualization technology, or VT-d or both? because the screenshot above showing intel virtualization is disabled and VT-d eneabled


thanks
 
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Yes, this is a somewhat known issue on normal Windows PCs too. Windows 11 22H2 or newer enables "Virtualization-based Security" (VBS) with "Hypervisor-Protected Code Integrity“ (HVCI) by default, if the BIOS is set accordingly. It protects against attacks which are mostly of theoretical nature, but also slows down the CPU somewhat, so i always turn it off like so:

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Or disable the virtualization in the BIOS, for AMD it's AMD-V/SVM, for Intel it's VT-d.

The things it protects against are usually not something that a normal end-user would need protection against. The much bigger risks come via social engineering, well-made spam mails that lead to false clicks and entering of information, not doing updates of critical software and/or the OS, stuff like that (at least on a PC).

I saw a test on a Ryzen, enabling "Memory integrity" / HVCI costs around ~7% of performance, in certain games it can even be considerably more. Not only that, even the SSD performance goes down a bit. So i would never enable HVCI. The VBS feature (simple "Core Isolation" without Memory Integrity) is ok, but not HVCI with its performance decrease, knowing how unlikely an attack from that angle is.

By the way, these somewhat unnecessary features are perhaps the main reason for Win11's ridiculous requirements regarding CPU models. They marked a lot of older (but good) CPUs as officially incompatible, just because they don't support these features.
 
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