If any impact on your latency, download, or upload speeds is simply too much for your gaming experience, there are other options. Split tunneling is a VPN feature that lets you decide which applications send their data through the VPN's tunnel and which send data outside the tunnel as normal. If, for example, you want to secure all your web traffic, but your game of choice can't take the strain of a VPN, you can simply omit its traffic with split-tunneling. The downside is that this approach will not secure all of your information. You need to decide which information you're comfortable transmitting without a VPN's added protection and what you want encrypted. Having to make that choice is not ideal, but it is better than having no choice at all.