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Azuwi Aug 15, 2024 @ 7:47am

valorant windows 11

it said it want enable UEFI in bios or something , after done that , what does it actually do on the pc other then let u play valorant ?

should i revert back to old settings after im done playing valorant ?

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Crashed Aug 15, 2024 @ 10:52am

Originally posted by Azuwi:
YES i have them both on and it works im asking what it does to the PC other then let u run valorant...

can i just leave it on will it reduce the FPS in other games or let it run PC on some weird settings with ffrape drops? ? should i return it to normal when im done play valorant??

does everyone here use UEFI BIOS??

Secure Boot does impose greater driver signing requirements. If none of your drivers have any issues loading with it on, then there is no drawback, unless you want to dual boot to an operating system that doesn't have a signed bootloader.

Enabling TPM has no ill effects unless you have an AMD board with the TPM stutter bug. Likely the anti-cheat is asking for it so it can read the module's unique serial number and track it for HWID bans. On the Windows side, Windows uses it to store the secrets needed for BitLocker/Device Encryption if enabled, and is needed to secure Windows Hello PIN.

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AD Aug 15, 2024 @ 10:59am

Originally posted by Azuwi:
Okay . so i can just keep it on.. maybe i was delusional when i felt windows took longer to start after i turned it on.. or that discord took longer to start up then usual.

If it affects anything, my guess is it would only be the boot times, and even then, I don't think it will a noticeable impact... or at least nothing significant. Computers are rather fast, after all. My laptop, which has secure boot turned on, starts in a few seconds (guess, 10 to 20 seconds). I would leave it on, it's not going to break performance.

On the upside, you are a lot safer to malware that tries to infect the Windows boot process with it turned on.

Also remember that causation isn't correlation. It might have been that Discord started slower, but it wasn't because of secure boot.

Last edited by AD; Aug 15, 2024 @ 11:00am

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Azuwi Aug 15, 2024 @ 11:30am

Originally posted by Crashed:
Originally posted by Azuwi:
YES i have them both on and it works im asking what it does to the PC other then let u run valorant...

can i just leave it on will it reduce the FPS in other games or let it run PC on some weird settings with ffrape drops? ? should i return it to normal when im done play valorant??

does everyone here use UEFI BIOS??
Secure Boot does impose greater driver signing requirements. If none of your drivers have any issues loading with it on, then there is no drawback, unless you want to dual boot to an operating system that doesn't have a signed bootloader.

Enabling TPM has no ill effects unless you have an AMD board with the TPM stutter bug. Likely the anti-cheat is asking for it so it can read the module's unique serial number and track it for HWID bans. On the Windows side, Windows uses it to store the secrets needed for BitLocker/Device Encryption if enabled, and is needed to secure Windows Hello PIN.

is this only for *new* drivers you trying to install (in future) or also for drivers you currently already have installed on your pc? like audio driver, video graphic card driver etc.

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AD Aug 15, 2024 @ 11:51am

Originally posted by Azuwi:
Originally posted by Crashed:
Secure Boot does impose greater driver signing requirements. If none of your drivers have any issues loading with it on, then there is no drawback, unless you want to dual boot to an operating system that doesn't have a signed bootloader.

Enabling TPM has no ill effects unless you have an AMD board with the TPM stutter bug. Likely the anti-cheat is asking for it so it can read the module's unique serial number and track it for HWID bans. On the Windows side, Windows uses it to store the secrets needed for BitLocker/Device Encryption if enabled, and is needed to secure Windows Hello PIN.

is this only for *new* drivers you trying to install (in future) or also for drivers you currently already have installed on your pc? like audio driver, video graphic card driver etc.

I don't know exactly how it works, but anything that is needed for the OS to boot will be affected by secure boot. It seems logical drivers would be affected, no matter if "new" or "old". That said, Windows has supported secure boot since Windows 8 I believe, so it's not a new thing and drivers are likely made with this in mind. In other words, I don't think you need to worry about your drivers not working. If you haven't run into problems, it's very likely fine.

EDIT.

Thinking about it a bit more, I don't think it affects all drivers. Some drivers run in user space, as in not in the kernel and not as firmware, so my guess is secure boot doesn't matter to those drivers. More info:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/gettingstarted/user-mode-and-kernel-mode
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/bringup/secure-boot

Last edited by AD; Aug 15, 2024 @ 11:55am

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Crashed Aug 15, 2024 @ 8:16pm

Originally posted by Azuwi:
Originally posted by Crashed:
Secure Boot does impose greater driver signing requirements. If none of your drivers have any issues loading with it on, then there is no drawback, unless you want to dual boot to an operating system that doesn't have a signed bootloader.

Enabling TPM has no ill effects unless you have an AMD board with the TPM stutter bug. Likely the anti-cheat is asking for it so it can read the module's unique serial number and track it for HWID bans. On the Windows side, Windows uses it to store the secrets needed for BitLocker/Device Encryption if enabled, and is needed to secure Windows Hello PIN.

is this only for *new* drivers you trying to install (in future) or also for drivers you currently already have installed on your pc? like audio driver, video graphic card driver etc.

The requirements are for all drivers you have installed. If your Device Manager shows no items going into error state after you enable Secure Boot, then all your drivers are validly signed.

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Azuwi Aug 15, 2024 @ 10:38pm

Originally posted by Midori:
Unless you have very old hardware, or a very old OS, there is zero reason to disable UEFI. I'm quite surprised it was off for you to begin with.

same me too. maybe its disabled by default when setting up a new pc?

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