Does Bitlocker affect gameplay?

Question

Encryption

Can you please tell me how critical is the impact of Bitlocker on game performance? And is it possible to somehow unload this case if you install the game on an unencrypted partition of the disk?
Windows 10. SSD with full system volume encryption.
(It seems to me that encryption can affect the loading (launch) of the game, but not the gameplay itself.)

Answer 1

There are games in which the level is loaded into memory and the disc does not affect the game process further.
There are games in which instead of individual levels there is a "seamless" world, and you can drive from one end of the map to the other without noticing any loading (GTA, for example, or most of WOW). In fact, this upload is there, but it is well disguised. And in these cases, encryption can make the download more noticeable.

Answer 2

Does Bitlocker affect gameplay?

Depends on the implementation and on the hardware.
In general, it uses iron-clad cryptography whenever possible, so CPU resources are practically not used when implemented correctly.
If the disk supports - they are not used at all.
Well, a rather strange neighborhood of Bitlocker and GTA - how can this happen ??
On gaming computers, Bitlocker is clearly not needed, and on computers where it is needed, obviously no one is cut into toys.