24H2 crashing games - working on a fix?

Anonymous
2024-12-24T02:49:25+00:00

It seems to be a known issue but seeing as there are no fixes yet, maybe you need more people to bring up the problem.

Ever since the 24H2 update, games have been freezing up the entire computer, forcing a hard-reboot with no other solutions.

And yes, I've tried re-installing/updating graphics driver, and pretty much every solution offered so far with no avail (some mention turning off Auto-HDR, some mention disabling multi-threading options in-game, etc.).

The only solution on specific game, POE2, that has worked is playing it on DirectX11 instead of DirectX12.

Apparently the issue is easily resolved by rolling back to 23H2, but instead of the users having to resort to finding a way to downgrade their updates, is there a fix coming from Windows any time soon?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Windows update

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-19T02:55:20+00:00

    0 crashes since going back to windows 10..all these not working answers are pointless, users tried everything except the obvious- use windows 10. Games are stable

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-20T02:58:59+00:00

    it's absolutely unacceptable that this hasn't been fixed yet. this **** is actively harming hardware

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-13T20:14:26+00:00

    I have deactivated all Win 11 gaming improvements.

    That means:

    Win key + X > System > Play > Deactivate game mode.

    Graphics > Deactivate optimization for windowed display mode.

    Below: Advanced graphics settings > Deactivate hardware accelerated GPU planning

    It helped me in Diablo Immortal

    I had no problems with 24H4 in other games

    You should then restart your PC

    Hope that helps you too!

    Caution: If hardware accelerated GPU planning has been deactivated, it no longer works in new games for Nvidia frame generation DLSS and for AMD FSR!

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-13T13:48:13+00:00

    unbelievable how many months have passed without MS even considering fixing their update, my laptop and desktop are sluggish, crashing on games, backscreens, and i have to shut down using the button since nothing responds, i am stressing my hardware are you going to pay the cost? and still after the rollback the useless update notification is still there, are you for real? you are distributing an update that causes so many issues and there is no official response on when on what to do? have you become such a trash company with useless testers and more useless coders? FU and your update.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-12-29T13:24:10+00:00

    Haha, 'when the engineers return to work", that shows how much they care about their users.

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