24H2 crashing games - working on a fix?

Hello,

My name is Eric, and I’ll try to help.

It sounds like you’ve already taken several good steps to troubleshoot the issue. The crashes you’re experiencing with the 24H2 update have indeed been reported by others, and rolling back to 23H2 has been noted as a temporary solution while Microsoft works on a fix. Here’s what you can do in the meantime:

1. Check for Updates

Make sure your system is fully updated, including optional updates under Windows Update. Microsoft often releases patches to address widespread issues after major updates.

2. Disable New Features Temporarily

Since you mentioned Auto-HDR and multi-threading, it might help to disable other new features introduced in 24H2 to see if it resolves the issue for games not covered by DirectX changes.

3. Submit Feedback to Microsoft

Open the Feedback Hub app in Windows (just type Feedback Hub in the Start menu) and report this issue. Be as detailed as possible, including the games affected, your system specs, and steps to reproduce the crash. The more reports Microsoft receives, the faster they’ll prioritize a fix.

4. Test DirectX Versions

As you found with POE2, switching to DirectX11 can help. For other games, check the graphics settings and select DirectX11 if available.

5. Consider Rolling Back

While waiting for a fix, rolling back to 23H2 is a viable temporary workaround if gaming performance is critical for you. To roll back:

• Go to Settings > System > Recovery

• Select Go back (if the option is still available within 10 days of the update).

If it’s been longer than 10 days, you might need to create a bootable drive with the 23H2 ISO and perform a clean installation.

If none of these options resolve the issue, let me know. We can explore other potential solutions, like advanced diagnostics or tweaking system settings further.

Best of luck, and I hope Microsoft releases a fix soon!

– Eric

When is the fix coming? There are so many people having issues with gaming on windows right now and I'm basically SOL because I've gone past 10 days and can't roll back without doing a completely fresh install of 23H2. That's ridiculous. I can't play a single round of Call of Duty without the good old DirectX error crashing my game. I spent $3000 on a nice computer and now I can't play games on it. The primary purpose of my machine. What the heck Microsoft.

I'm sorry for the problem as long as Microsoft is making billions of dollars a day, there is no need for them to help you as long as you are on the web as you are tracked, bill gates check is doing better then the people suffering. As best bet is to just reinstall it over and over again to keep busy and some frustration and distraction as you are wasting you time with Windows 11 home or pro!!!! thank you for surfing on this web, we will wait until 2025 so 23h2 November will expire and we will continue with more issues in the future. As already windows 24h2 has much much more problems, we will like you to not hack and crack windows as the money to the company is doing very will in the stock markets. Please just join us in the stock and buy more stocks so the company of windows will be around for a long time just slacking off with customers and Operating Systems.

Sincerely Bill Gates and the Microsoft Company Co.

(There been problems since Windows Vista has been created. as the problems cont. through Windows 8,10,11 If you need more problems please just buy the Original Disk (199.99 Yeah!!) and spend money for nothing)

I'm having the same issue.. and I can't find a copy of 23h2 anywhere to rollback too...

I even tried a fresh install of windows to no avail

I had huge problems as well with 24H2 on a bunch of games, and some games froze the system completely, forcing me to reset the computer. For us gamers, that version is unusable and has been so ever since the update rolled out, and so far nothing from Microsoft to address it, literally nothing, except for the typical Microsoft support baloney saying that something is wrong on our end and just giving us a list for troubleshooting and calling it a day.

I was lucky I had the option to roll back to 23H2, which solved all issues. If they still think we will update in the future without addressing the problems with games, I'll just roll back to Windows 10. I'm so frustrated with how unconcerned they are about the whole thing and drag their feet.