It’s been just a few months since Microsoft launched Windows 11 24H2, however there are nonetheless ongoing points with the model of the OS, lots of which we have skilled ourselves right here at PC Gamer. As every replace rolls by, a collective breath is held and fingers are crossed for fixes—generally they arrive, generally they do not (mentioned the Yogi). Thankfully, it now it appears like not less than just a few of the extra irksome bugs could be quickly ironed out.
The just-released Windows 11 Preview Channel Build 26100.3025 (KB5050094) has just a few new options and enhancements, however given the as-yet buggy 24H2 expertise, I’m extra centered on these “mounted” notes, of which there are a good few.
This construct is an Insider one, which means it is an early model you can entry by signing up for the Windows Insider Program, however these builds do hit the primary launch channel finally.
You can try the complete checklist of fixes your self on the Build announcement, however listed here are a few of the bugs that we’re notably completely satisfied to see getting mounted:
- A disappearing mouse cursor whenever you hover over sure textual content fields in some functions.
- The mouse cursor stuttering when it strikes throughout the display screen.
- Oversaturated HDR in some video games whenever you use Auto HDR.
- Searches repeating for no motive.
- The search field dropping enter focus as you kind.
- Task Manager taking a very long time to shut.
- Snipping Tool screenshots being distorted.
Here within the PCG {hardware} den, a bunch of us have confronted such sorts of points with 24H2, from Auto HDR recreation crashes to audio machine points, stuttering, and extra. I’ve personally confronted animation glitches when minimising and maximising home windows, Nick’s had 24H2-induced graphical points in Chrome, and Andy appears to have had the worst of it, with damaged drivers, disappearing and reappearing notifications, and in-game stutters and hangs.
Some of us have additionally skilled mouse cursor stutters, which looks as if essentially the most irritating and ever-present bug of the lot. And additionally presumably essentially the most baffling challenge of all of them. It’s 2025, so how is it that Microsoft rolled out an replace that breaks one of many most elementary issues to get proper for GUI working methods? (The ‘Small Indie Company’ joke is fruit that is virtually too low-hanging to say.)
Microsoft’s reasoning could be that 24H2 is outwardly a “full working system (OS) swap”. This sounds foolish, given the person expertise is generally the identical however with some AI gubbins sprinkled right here and there. But I suppose we’re solely getting the front-end expertise; an entire low-level redesign may need been wanted to get Windows prepared for the AI PC period.
Whatever the explanation, and nevertheless ridiculous a few of the bugs could appear, not less than new builds try to repair them. Let’s simply hope new bugs aren’t thrown into the combination for good measure—if there’s something that’ll remember to preserve the Windows 10 die-hards from updating, it’s going to be that tiresome whack-a-mole.
