- Home windows 11’s February 2025 cumulative replace has arrived
- It packs a bunch of cures together with the decision of an Auto HDR bug that was messing up colours and inflicting video games to crash
- Essential audio fixes are additionally current, and the remedy for a nasty drawback with webcams
Home windows 11 has a brand new cumulative replace, and it brings forth some necessary fixes for bugs which were annoying a great many individuals.
Bleeping Laptop noticed the discharge notes for the February 2025 replace for Home windows 11 which emerged yesterday and ought to be accessible on PCs now. That is patch KB5051987 for Home windows 11 24H2, however for those who’re nonetheless on 23H2, it’s KB5051989.
The replace cures one of many (many) bugs that players have discovered significantly irritating, whereby colours are tousled by the Auto HDR characteristic. This has now been resolved, as have the crashes in video games that had been being reported as a result of this concern, as properly.
One other main repair right here is for the bug that killed the audio output of these utilizing an audio DAC (digital-to-analog converter) with their PC, though this affected different customers too (you had been simply extra prone to run into the issue for those who use a DAC).
DAC or no DAC (I really feel a gameshow concept approaching), the bug has been squashed with the brand new replace, as has one other audio glitch which precipitated a ‘This system can not begin’ error to seem (although that was a much less widespread drawback, and never one I’ve heard of earlier than).
Lastly, bear in mind the points with USB webcams the place they weren’t being detected correctly? You possibly can kiss goodbye to these digicam woes, too, as Microsoft tells us that this bug (brought on by the earlier January 2025 cumulative replace) is now a factor of the previous.
Evaluation: Fixing the holes the place the bugs get in…
It’s possible you’ll recall that the Auto HDR repair arrived within the preview replace for January (an optionally available affair on the finish of final month), so the excellent news is that it hasn’t precipitated any issues within the closing testing phases, and so can now be utilized to Home windows 11 PCs throughout the board.
Moreover, it’s price noting that the compatibility maintain which was placed on PCs that will’ve been affected by this bug has now been lifted, so in case your laptop was prevented from grabbing 24H2 as a result of this gremlin, it’s best to be capable to get the massive replace quickly.
Whether or not you’ll need to make that leap but is one other query, in fact, as 24H2 has proved fairly problematic by way of numerous bugs manifesting since its launch.
Hopefully we’re over the worst of all that, although, and as we are able to see right here, Microsoft is now working at a good outdated tempo to resolve the miscellaneous glitches which have affected Home windows 11 customers who’ve moved to the newest model (which is now underway with a wider rollout).
