Microsoft’s 24H2 replace for Windows 11 has been rolling out in suits and begins, which appears applicable—as some customers, together with myself and different members of the {hardware} staff, have been beset by all kinds of unusual points since set up, together with sport stuttering, crashes, and audio gadgets mysteriously disappearing.
Microsoft has been logging most of the varied recognized points on its Windows launch well being web page, and the newest entry pertains to Auto HDR. Some customers have been experiencing incorrect sport colors with “sure show configurations” and even full-on crashes in some video games.
Microsoft has utilized a compatibility maintain on gadgets with Auto HDR enabled, which means that these gadgets is not going to be supplied the choice to put in 24H2 through the Windows Update launch channel in the event that they have not put in it already.
However, that is removed from the one 24H2 bug doing the rounds this vacation season. Second on the listing is an entry mentioning audio points with a “restricted set of gadgets from one producer” specifically gadgets utilizing Dirac Audio with cridspapo.dll.
Again, Microsoft says it is put a compatibility maintain on affected PCs—however each myself and my colleague, Nick Evanson, have had audio gadget points since putting in the replace, and neither of us makes use of Dirac Audio. In my case I’ve had audio gadgets disappear, refuse to modify over (which is enjoyable for conferences!) and odd crackling.
All of that is straight post-update, which for me additionally broke lots of my drivers and required me to reinstall them manually. Oh, and my Windows notifications hold disappearing and reappearing en masse, too.
Polling the {hardware} staff for odd PC experiences since putting in the replace reveals but more bizarre behaviour. Our Jacob Fox has skilled animation glitching when minimising and maximising particular person home windows, which a fast Google search reveals appears to be an ongoing challenge for a lot of customers.
He’s disabled animations totally to repair it, so spare a thought for poor Mr Fox this vacation season along with his barebones Windows expertise.
Nick has ongoing points with Chrome, which (straight after the set up of 24H2) sometimes freezes web page rendering midway via, leaving the underside half caught in place however the high half nonetheless lively. And as for myself, it is not simply audio and notification points which have me scratching my head.
I observed odd stuttering and hangs in video games that ran easily pre-update, together with Diablo 4 and No Mans Sky, each of which normally run constantly at over 100 fps on my machine. Spending a night scouring boards for a repair (not precisely my favorite option to spend an evening off), I observed that some folks had been recommending turning off quick startup and disabling hibernation to unravel the difficulty in sure video games.
And would not you already know it, that is labored for me too. These are anecdotal experiences in fact, however I’d say it was value a strive should you’ve skilled odd hitching and micro stutter points since putting in the replace your self.
All this, and I have never even bought to the Ubisoft debacle, through which 24H2 was prevented from being despatched out to machines with sure Ubisoft video games put in on them, like Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, with a purpose to forestall crashing. Ubisoft has been releasing hotfixes to unravel the issue, however sure video games are nonetheless but to obtain a repair.
Previous points have included the 24H2 audio bounce scare bug, the Western Digital SSD BSOD bug, and a borknado of different pre-public launch issues.
So, it appears 24H2 continues to trigger complications for a lot of. I am unable to keep in mind a time a significant Windows replace did not trigger widespread points, besides. this newest patch appears to trigger greater than most.
So this is hoping Microsoft squashes these bugs sooner somewhat than later. I’ve video games to play over the vacations, you see, and I’d somewhat not spend my time without work scouring the boards for but extra hackaround fixes.
