- Newest replace for Home windows 11 24H2 packs a few nifty fixes for players
- A type of is the essential treatment for some PC video games locking up fully
- The opposite repair is extra tenuous, however a patched reminiscence leak can also be associated to points with some video games
Home windows 11 24H2 simply bought a significant repair for players in its newest elective patch, and Nvidia GPUs ought to now be extra steady with the working system, because it irons out issues with sure PC video games crashing.
That is KB5058499 which is a preview (elective) replace and brings with it a ton of latest options, as I mentioned yesterday.
Extra essential than any of that for players, although, are a few fixes tucked away on the backside of the discharge notes which I ignored and Home windows Newest was keen-eyed sufficient to identify.
Crucial treatment here’s a patch for the graphics kernel in Home windows 11 24H2, of which Microsoft observes: “Mounted: A problem the place some sport titles develop into unresponsive after upgrading to 24H2.”
The bug in query causes some video games to easily lock up when they’re launched, a nasty glitch certainly for affected titles.
As for the opposite treatment associated to gaming, that’s a extra tenuous one, but it surely includes a reminiscence leak bug within the ‘Enter Service’ which in response to Microsoft impacts distant desktop utilization and different conditions that aren’t prone to be encountered by the typical Home windows 11 person.
Nevertheless, Home windows Newest argues that this reminiscence leak is perhaps the reason for enter lag with the keyboard and mouse in some PC video games, too – or at the least that this bug might be a part of the explanation for that.
This situation with enter lag can even provoke blue display crashes with ‘reminiscence administration’ errors, we’re informed, but it surely’s principally guesswork that the repair carried out with this elective patch for Home windows 11 is a part of the treatment right here. That might be the case, although, and if that’s the case, this can be a helpful double-whammy of helpful patching for players.
Evaluation: Nvidia’s to not blame (this time)
What’s fascinating right here is that the blame for the bug which causes video games to lock up with Home windows 11 24H2 was positioned on the door of Nvidia by many. As Home windows Newest factors out, even when Nvidia launched a brand new graphics driver that cured ‘stability points’ with Home windows 11 24H2 – again in April – issues with video games turning into unresponsive continued, and Workforce Inexperienced caught the flak for not resolving the state of affairs.
It seems, then, that this was an issue within the Home windows 11 kernel (the central code for the OS) that Microsoft wanted to tinker with, so these venting their wrath immediately at Nvidia weren’t being honest to the GPU maker. Though that mentioned, it’s comprehensible why of us jumped to conclusions, seeing as Workforce Inexperienced has undoubtedly had large issues with its graphics drivers ever for the reason that launch of the most recent Blackwell era – and the thorny points plaguing these GPUs proceed.
At any fee, hopefully this would be the finish of the matter, at the least so far as the 24H2-related crashing goes (fingers and toes very tightly crossed). In the event you’ve been struggling by the hands of those bugbears, the one means you’ll discover out is by putting in the elective replace.
After all, preview updates might be fickle themselves, and probably nonetheless buggy, which is why they’re elective. So, you’ll be able to wait till this preview replace turns into the complete June cumulative replace, which might be launched on June 10. Or, if one in every of your favourite video games is bugged so it doesn’t work in any respect, you’ll doubtless wish to danger it and seize the preview replace for Could proper now.
