24H2 crashing games - working on a fix?

So far I've found a few workarounds, such as turning off a couple of the cpu cores from the games that are having trouble. Doing this avoids having to do a hard reset, as you can still operate on Windows to force closing the app.

Turning off multi-threading, if the option is available, has also worked for me, although it causes severe loss in performance.

What I'm expecting is a permanent solution from Microsoft now, as this is a long standing problem that is affecting thousands (or millions) of users, and that has gone on for too long. I was hoping too see a statement, at least acknowleding the problem and committing to solve it as soon as possible.

Apparently this is a bug introduced in Directx12 with the last Windows patch, 24H2, can anyone confirm?

Having to roll back to 23H2 at this point would be a disappointment as well as a lot of work. If I can even find a .iso to roll back to.

Yes, as far as I know it's due to the 24H2 patch, people who have rolled back seems to have resolved the problem.

Thank you, I'm familiar with the CPU and multi-threading workaround (and using deprecated DirectX11 works as well if your game supports that) but I'm looking for a proper fix from Windows since the whole point is why do we have to find all these "workarounds"methods instead of Microsoft fixing the root problem

I have the same issue. It's not my hardware; certain games are affected. I can rebuild the system, but 24H2 is automatically upgraded. Microsoft should have tested this more. I have read about other people having the same issue, so count me in as one who asks that this gets patched ASAP.

It's making playing games intolerable. If I could roll back to 22H2 or 23H2, I would not have these issues.

In-game freezing forces a hard shutdown and restart.

I have the same issue. It's not my hardware; certain games are affected. I can rebuild the system, but 24H2 is automatically upgraded. Microsoft should have tested this more. I have read about other people having the same issue, so count me in as one who asks that this gets patched ASAP.

It's making playing games intolerable. If I could roll back to 22H2 or 23H2, I would not have these issues.

In-game freezing forces a hard shutdown and restart.

I'm "sitting" on 23H2 and machine is working fine. Attempted to upgrade 24H2 numerous times but kept getting the BSOD which disappeared after a second or two with no chance to read it all and find out what the problem is. Used Macrium Reflect to roll back to 23H2. Sounds like you have "Get the latest updates as soon as they are available" in Windows Update selected if you are getting "but 24H2 is automatically upgraded." I had that selected but now it's off. Updates are all paused for 5 weeks to stop anything coming in and I ocasionally turn the updates back on to get Microsoft Defender it's updates, then pause all updates again.

My machine is working fine on 23H2 - I know that's no help to you.

Windowslatest.com states "Microsoft promises it’s working on a fix and will share more details in January when the engineers return to work."

Just proving Microsoft has a policy of release it and let the public do fault finding for us.

Same shambles with Flight Simulator 2024 which was released before it was ready as well.

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