Had some other stuff to deal with so I only really started playing around with the Gigabyte RTX 5090 Aorus Master yesterday.
I'm on a fresh system based on a Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi 7 running a Ryzen 7 9800X3D with a fresh Windows 11 Pro 24H2 install.
So at first my benchmark scores weren't all that hot and I was wondering what was going on.
Had to dig around for a bit to find the culprit on this one: Windows Virtualization Based Security or VBS.
The old ways to disable VBS no longer seem to do the job completely on 24H2.
Eventually, I found that that in addition to the other tricks, you are now supposed to use Regedit to set:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard\Scenarios\WindowsHello\Enable to 0
.. for VBS to finally be gone completely.
And hoo boy what a difference that makes for this class of system:
I'm on a fresh system based on a Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi 7 running a Ryzen 7 9800X3D with a fresh Windows 11 Pro 24H2 install.
So at first my benchmark scores weren't all that hot and I was wondering what was going on.
Had to dig around for a bit to find the culprit on this one: Windows Virtualization Based Security or VBS.
The old ways to disable VBS no longer seem to do the job completely on 24H2.
Eventually, I found that that in addition to the other tricks, you are now supposed to use Regedit to set:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard\Scenarios\WindowsHello\Enable to 0
.. for VBS to finally be gone completely.
And hoo boy what a difference that makes for this class of system:
