Windows 11 is “finally definitely” fast with 24H2 on PC which is not officially supported

It’s not unfair to say that a large portion of the Windows enthusiast community has a bit of a grudge against Microsoft regarding the system requirements for Windows 11. Some features like TPM 2.0 and modern processors have been made mandatory for that the operating system is working legitimately.

But to the delight of users, Microsoft had claimed that Windows 11 was designed to get the most out of the hardware, even briefly detailing how this was done. However, complaints persisted that this was not the case and as a result the Windows developer team said in a Reddit Q&A that they were focusing on improving performance in 2022, especially when it comes to user interface.

Still, many weren’t as happy with the performance. Neowin also tested the performance differences between Windows 11 and 10 last year on properly installed in-place upgraded PCs, and truth be told, we didn’t notice much of a gap between the two operating systems. exploitation, except on a few occasions.

However, our systems were relatively excellent and the experience may vary depending on device type. A Reddit user claims that the upcoming Windows 11 feature update for 2024, version 24H2, works fine on his decade-old Celeron processor, an N2940, which belongs to the Bay Trail family. It is not officially compatible with Windows 11.

User Bambamito apparently tested the performance of Windows 11 and Windows 10 on his system, which, besides the slow Bay Trail chip, only has 4 GB of system memory, an SSD and a hard drive. They say:

increased performance experience! at least in my experience. opening explorer is much faster (opens in one click without hesitation: same SSD because I never reinstalled), scrolling in Chrome is smoother and playing YouTube videos loads faster ( I’m still watching on 1080 by the way)… the overall fluidity of the user interface has increased.

On unsupported very low-end devices, Windows 11 24h2 definitely offers increased performance in terms of user experience and smoother.

The user unfortunately didn’t provide any concrete data to back this up, although we have no reason to believe why he would lie with such a claim.

Other people on the thread agreed with this take. For example, user iamfromreallife says:

Yes, I tried Windows 11 on and off and always found it slow and always came back to win 10. Now 24h2 and this thing finally seems fast. Only the desktop switch animation needs work. I finally deleted my win10 partition.

Another user, Irosemary, says:

I had also tried the W11 24H2 preview and found it very fast and snappy. It finally felt like a mature operating system.

I’m using a state of the art computer (7800x3d + 4090 liquid cooled) and W11 has never been this snappy before 24H2.

Keep in mind though that such user complaints have often surfaced from time to time, like what happened with 22H2, and it is often not possible to properly verify these things.

However, compared to 22H2 or 23H2, the 2024 feature update has a big change when it comes to bypassing OS requirements. Microsoft makes instructions like PopCnt and SSE4.2 mandatory, so very old PCs won’t be able to bypass them.

On the support side, AMD users, in particular, can expect a decent performance boost on Windows 11 24H2, with the latest OS updates and firmware updates installed.