How to optimize the performance of your games in Windows 11

  • Activate 'Game Mode' to avoid interruptions during your games.
  • Disable 'Virtual Machine Platform' if you don't need it to improve performance.
  • Update your drivers regularly to optimize stability and performance.
  • Please use the 'High Performance' plan in the Control Panel for a smooth gaming experience.
Daniel Terrasa

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optimize game performance

If you use a PC with Windows 11 for your sessions Gaming at home, the information we bring you in this article will surely interest you. Because everyone wants the maximum response speed, the greatest fluidity of images. In short: the best experience. Here we explain how to optimize the performance of your games in Windows 11.

Obviously, most of us cannot afford to spend a fortune to have the most powerful computer in the world, but what is feasible is use all the methods we have at our disposal to get the best performance from our PC, whatever it is.

The Tricks that we present to you in this post are very useful to achieve this objective. However, some of them involve taking certain risks with respect to the security or autonomy of the computer (in the case of laptops), as we will explain below.

Activate "Game Mode"

game mode windows 11

We start our list of tips to optimize gaming performance in Windows 11 with an elementary action: activate "Game Mode". This is a function that was already present in Windows 10. When you activate it, we will not notice major changes when playing, although we will experience some improvements.

Although it is usually activated by default, to be safe, this is what we should do:

  1. First we go to the menu "Setting".
  2. Then we click on the section «Games».
  3. There we select "Game Mode" and we activate it by moving the button to the right.

What do we achieve by activating "Game Mode"? Few things, but important. For example, prevent a game from being interrupted at the best moment by automatic Windows updates or system notifications. Very practical.

Disable Virtual Machine Platform (VMP)

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This is another trick we can try.as long as we are sure that we will not need to use virtualization on our computer. If so, we can disable the functionality so that the games run more quickly. This is what we should do:

  1. To start, let's go to Control Panel.
  2. There we click on the option «Programs».
  3. Within this section, we are going to "Programs and characteristics" and then we select "Turn Windows features on or off".*
  4. Finally, a new screen will be displayed in which you must select «Virtual machine platform» to deactivate it.

(*) At this point we will be asked for administrator permissions, you simply have to accept to continue.

Update drivers

This is a very useful tip to optimize gaming performance in Windows 11, although it is actually positive for PC performance in general. We must not forget that, In each new update, the drivers incorporate new functions that will always provide improvements in terms of performance and stability. All the games that we have installed will benefit from this.

Activate the high performance plan

energy panel

Un change in Power Panel can have a big impact on the overall performance of our PC, especially when we talk about Gaming. However, things are a little more delicate if it is a laptop, since this can cause battery life to be drastically reduced.

In any case, if we are willing to take that risk in exchange for enjoying a better gaming experience, these are the steps we must follow:

  1. First of all, let's go to Control Panel.
  2. There we click on the option "Hardware and sound".
  3. Next, we select "Energy options".
  4. There we simply activate the option "High performance".

In addition to this, there is still something else we can do to optimize gaming performance in Windows 11:

    1. Again we go to Control Panel.
    2. There we click on the option "System".
    3. Now, in the side menu, we select "Advanced system settings".
    4. In the window "System properties", let's go to the configuration button "Performance".
    5. We select the tab "Visual effects".
    6. Finally, we choose the option “Tune for best performance” and we click the button "To accept" to apply the changes.

Other tips to optimize gaming performance in Windows 11

Finally, there are some good habits that we should practice (and that are common sense) to keep our PC in shape and always have the best conditions to enjoy games. These are some things we should do:

  • Avoid having browser tabs open by doing downloads while we are playing.
  • Carry out periodic checks to ensure that our PC is free of malware.
  • Turn off the programs set to start automatically on our PC.
  • Always be up to date with operating system updates.
  • Make sure we have enough free space on drive :C of the System.

All of these simple actions will result in an improvement in the overall performance of Windows 11 and will also have a very positive impact on our gaming experience. So it is worth paying due attention to them.


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