Memory Integrity Protection (HVCI) - incompatible driver

What is MEMORY-INTEGRITY-INCOMP?

Memory Integrity Protection (HVCI) - incompatible driver (MEMORY-INTEGRITY-INCOMP) is a medium-severity fault affecting the Windows operating system. Windows Security reports that Memory Integrity Protection is disabled due to an incompatible driver. Another common trigger is cheating software or old anti-cheat. The steps below are ordered to resolve this efficiently.

Common Causes

• Old driver not supporting HVCI (Hypervisor-Protected Code Integrity)
• The driver of the manufacturer of hard drives, card readers or old peripherals
• Cheating software or old anti-cheat

Step-by-Step Fix Guide

• 1
  Open Windows Security → Device Security → Kernel Isolation Details

  Begin with Open Windows Security → Device Security → Kernel Isolation Details; it's the step that resolves MEMORY-INTEGRITY-INCOMP for the largest share of reported cases.

• 2
  Find out the name of the incompatible driver and update it

  For the minority of cases that need more work, the later steps dig into less usual windows instability causes.

• 3
  After updating all drivers, turn Memory Integrity back on

  "After updating all drivers, turn Memory Integrity back on" targets old driver not supporting HVCI (Hypervisor-Protected Code Integrity), one of the documented causes of MEMORY-INTEGRITY-INCOMP.

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