Question - Win 11 Memory Integrity question...new today upon reboot (1 Viewer)

[Redfrog]

So I just rebooted..and had a Win 11 update, and upon reboot I had a little taskbar shield telling me of a problem. I clicked it and this comes up:



Never seen it before. I went and read the Learn More: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/core-isolation-e30ed737-17d8-42f3-a2a9-87521df09b78 but its nothing I can tell if good or not to turn on. Thoughts? Do you guys have this?

 

[Daxchu]

I've never bothered to mess with it and haven't noticed any issues with it enabled but recently I did see a video on youtube where the guidance was to disable it for some fps boost. Unsure how much it really improves performance to be honest.

There are a bunch of videos you can watch with info on the feature.

 

[durango773]

This is the new rage, silicon (hardware) based data integrity. I dont know about performance hits, but it is the way of the future (part of verified supply chain and system security).

 

[Doc James]

Leave it off

 

[Redfrog]

This is the new rage, silicon (hardware) based data integrity. I dont know about performance hits, but it is the way of the future (part of verified supply chain and system security).

Does this lead to "Hey! We found problem for you (that we caused), But thankfully its insulated by our software/hardware AND we have a fix for you (at a very low affordable cost) !!! Grats! "

 

[Dragonslayer]

I switched it on, times ago, when same message appeared. My feeling is, that it has no effect for eq and mq.

 

[Knightly]

Leave it on unless you see a noticeable difference (it's on by default in new installs). The biggest impact you would see is something like -- you're using a really OLD hardware input device that has specialized drivers that no one has updated in the last 15 year and that device doesn't work when you enable Memory Integrity. Given that, over time, most devices end up using integrated drivers as fallback, that's a pretty unlikely scenario. It's more common in factory environments than home PCs.

As for what it does, high security processes are things like the operating system kernel or your antivirus software. The first attack vector for malware is usually targeting the antivirus software in order to either disable it or work around it. Similarly, in order to prevent removal -- malware (especially rootkits) try to modify high security processes that always run to integrate themselves and make it so that removal is painfully hard. Memory Integrity features work to prevent this from happening.

EQ isn't a high security process and this wouldn't impact MQ in any way. But -- system security is a lot like gearing up in EQ -- every little bit helps.

 

[Redfrog]

Leave it on unless you see a noticeable difference (it's on by default in new installs). The biggest impact you would see is something like -- you're using a really OLD hardware input device that has specialized drivers that no one has updated in the last 15 year and that device doesn't work when you enable Memory Integrity. Given that, over time, most devices end up using integrated drivers as fallback, that's a pretty unlikely scenario. It's more common in factory environments than home PCs.

As for what it does, high security processes are things like the operating system kernel or your antivirus software. The first attack vector for malware is usually targeting the antivirus software in order to either disable it or work around it. Similarly, in order to prevent removal -- malware (especially rootkits) try to modify high security processes that always run to integrate themselves and make it so that removal is painfully hard. Memory Integrity features work to prevent this from happening.

EQ isn't a high security process and this wouldn't impact MQ in any way. But -- system security is a lot like gearing up in EQ -- every little bit helps.

Thanks for helping me understand it a little bit better.