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I have an older Asus gaming laptop originally recommended for vMix streaming. It still runs Windows 10 Enterprise and works well, but it isn't Windows 11 compatible. What are my best options for continuing to use it safely with vMix?

ASKED BY · Kenny Hamptons · GREENVILLE, ILLINOIS · 26 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:52:27

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TPM workarounds exist to bypass Windows 11 hardware requirements; check Paul Thurrott's site (therott.com) for upgrade guidance; Asus gaming laptops often have NVIDIA GPUs that work well with vMix, or stay on Windows 10 Enterprise with security patches.

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52:26Kenny Hamptons in from Greenville, Illinois. I have an older Asus gaming laptop originally recommended for vMix streaming. It still runs Windows 10 Enterprise and works well, but it isn't Windows 11 compatible. What are my best options for continuing to use it safely with vMix? This is the challenge with Windows and Microsoft has decided that certain computers are not going to be allowed to upgrade to Windows 11 because they must have certain hardware-based support

52:57for the new trusted computing platform or whatever it is. Cordy, what are your thoughts on this? Yeah, there are TP workarounds out there that trusted or TCP or whatever they call it, the trusted computing platform requirement for Windows 11 that you can get around. So do some research there and see if you can run one of those bypass to get you to upgrade

53:21to Windows 11. Paul Therott, I think, did a couple of articles on this. So go to therott.com, T-H-E-R-O-T-T dot com, and take a look there because I think he covers the ability to upgrade. And those Asus gaming laptops, I've had some, and they're great. They have a lot of times 11, NVIDIA, a separate GPU in there. So it'll work well with vMix that are written to support

53:48vmix that are written to support the nvidia uh drivers so uh take a look at that you can still get by with windows 10 enterprise uh it'll still run fine it'll run almost all the i think the vmix software will still run fine on it you know you don't have to worry about vulnerabilities uh so just keep it patched uh with the latest security stuff and you know they're not going

54:12to be releasing very much more security stuff for windows 10 enterprise but uh see if you can bypass that setup and go ahead and upgrade it to 11. All right, next question. Tony Mobley's up next from Ninnan, Georgia. Has there been a conversation about Muse? Not on this show that I'm aware of. I think that's the new Facebook AI, right? Is it not, Craig?

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