Hi everyone,
TLDR; Are you using Windows 11 and is performance worse than when you used W10 or good / better now?
I’m building my first computer soon and I’m looking into what operating system to buy. I play a lot of OW so I’d like that to run properly. I’ve seen on the forums that OW had performance issues with Windows 11 compared to Windows 10. The recommended system requirements as stated by Blizzard are:
Recommended Specifications
Operating System
Windows® 7 / Windows® 8 / Windows® 10 64-bit (latest Service Pack)
Does this mean Windows 11 will not run Overwatch properly and I should just get Windows 10 and upgrade at a later stage?
I’m getting an AMD CPU and GPU (5600x and 6700xt, RAM = 32 GB) if that matters when answering the question.
The reports of performance issues with W11 on the forum here seem to be from October when it was just released and there were loads of bugs. I do not know if they are current and I can’t compare it to my current computer (horrible laptop which is dying). I just checked Hardware Unboxed’s video on Windows 11 vs 10 and the games there had performance increase. (Not sure if i can post links, youtube search: [AMD Ryzen: Windows 11 vs. Windows 10, Faster Gaming Performance] )
I’m not looking for discussion on my PC parts, just would like some user case experiences with Windows 11 and Overwatch, other game experiences which are relevant can of course be included in the discussion whether to get Windows 10 or 11.
Thanks for your time 
Windows is like StarTrek movies.
Only get every second version.
98 was good, ME was garbage, XP was great, Vista sucked, 7 is good, 8 was awful, 10 is good.
9 didn’t exist for some VERY funny reasons, it was renamed to 10, two week after one of the heads of Microsoft went on stage to say they were NEVER going to monkey around with version numbers again.
Now I’m not saying 11 will be awful, but 11 will be awful.
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I haven’t upgraded yet, heard that there’s some issues with Windows 11
Performance between the two is likely nearly identical for most users outside of some corner case configurations. The reason to choose one over the other is far more likely going to come down to which user interface you prefer.
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11 is still holding back the overall performance of hardwares and as an extra only a few selected hardware and their drivers can run Win 11 so i wouldn’t risk updating a license key because theres no turning back.
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You can get win10 and upgrade it to win11 for free. Heck, you can upgrade to it from win7.
If you are really planning to go win 11 however make sure your pc actually meets the requirements for win11 since for the moment win11 has hardware security requirements and old hardware is simply not compatible. (Microsoft however may drop those if they want to push win11 to everyone)
On the other side, if you are using older windows with new hardware, make sure there are actually drivers for it.
Performance wise, it seems like win11 is worse than win10 at the current point in time.
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I’m not upgrading a key unfortunately, I have to buy a new one since my laptop came with windows from an OEM and I won’t be able to use it for the PC that I’m going to be building. From what I’m gathering it would be wisest to just get Windows 10 and I will be able to get a free update at a later point then corrrect?
The hardware I’m getting is all new / released relatively recently.
Ryzen 5600x CPU an x570 Mobo and 6700xt graphics card are the most important parts
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Now thats a good question. I know theres a site which can decide if your device can run 11 or not but i don’t remember its name. You can even choose the hardwares you have/will get there.
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I’m sure it should be able to run it, the video I mentioned earlier used a AMD processor from same generation as well as a motherboard from the same chipset. Theres no way Windows will not support recent generation CPU’s on recent OS system upgrades haha.
If its good is another question which im hoping to answer with some more research, just checking the options. If people state W11 is garbage with OW, the game I play most, theres no point in continuing to explore haha
Yes. I bought win 10 OEM key for cheap and then upgraded to win 11 on my other PC.
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Thanks for your input guys! I’ll just get Windows 10 then. I like this operating system already. If windows 11 ends up being revolutionary or extremely good i’ll just update then haha. For now it seems like its not worth it yet then.
I personally wouldn’t get it before they haven’t fixed the performance issues.
If that happens before there is a new and better version?
Who knows 
I would say a flatout “no”. To windows 11. For me,
If I could run 7 still and not have to worry about some of the games requiring certain extensions that are only allowed to RUN on Windows 10. I’d be back on 7.
Windows uses what is known as “product steering” in order to force people to buy the latest and “greatest” (NOT) OS. and unless someone has a “kernel mod” done, most of the time running new stuff on legacy operating systems is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT. I’ve seen a few "cracked’ versions of Windows XP running some of the modern stuff. But let me tell you this. The work that goes into making something WORK on old legacy stuff, is too time consuming and just better off waiting until there are decent mods for it.
Eventually windows 11 will be forced on us. By their first major OS patch or their second. Just because they want people to spend ANOTHER 200 bucks on a copy.
Right now I run WuBx64 for my Win10 OS as a direct kernal mod. I got sick of the psychopaths at Microsoft spying on my computer, hogging resources, and all in the name of “telemetry”. Whilst 18-26% of my resources are dedicated to something else OTHER than my computer running what I want it to execute. Including ALL of that background BLOATWARE that installs on a weekly or even daily basis. Bloatware taking up nearly 200-300 GB of hard drive space, mind you!
So if you want to do 10, do it, if you want to do 11. Do it! Just do your research and find out if it is a good Gaming Operating system. If I was to give a comparison performance between the operating systems. Windows 7 utilizes resources much better than 8, 10 or even 11. But 8 did start getting better about spreading tasks out between multiple cores better than 7 in SOME asepcts. (some). And certainly XP was only good about that if you had Windows Xp 64 bit edition.
If you are still reading this. Yes, I was that tech person that forced Windows XP 64 bit to run games like WoW. because I wanted a better experience and at the time Windows 32 bit was 3.75 (ish) GB of ram supported. So the kewl kid on the block that I was NOT, I had Windows 64 bit running my 6 GB of RAM. 
VR performance seems to be bad under windows 11 for now(especially with oculus)
I get the same fps under windows 10 aswell as windows 11(althought seem to get less frame spikes in certain games under windows 11)