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?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-18T11:41:39+00:00

    Are you kidding me? After telling it to NOT update to 24H2, I even disabled updates to not accidentally update to this broken update, and today I woke to to the computer having installed it anyway. I gave it a chance and hoped they had fixed the problems but no, my computer still crashes when trying to play games. This time for some reason I can't roll-back to 23H2. I've had it with the ignorance of Microsoft not treating this more urgently and forcing a broken update on us. Considering going back to Windows 10 just so I can play my games.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-18T17:11:38+00:00

    I had the same problems, and have submitted a report to microsoft.

    How will we know if it is safe to install 24h2 again?

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-19T13:42:00+00:00

    I had the same problems, and have submitted a report to microsoft.

    How will we know if it is safe to install 24h2 again?

    I think we'll only find out when one of us tries it again - but even then it might appear to work but who knows what's lurking in the shadows.

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  4. 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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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-20T16:52:49+00:00

    This is an absolute scandal, more months go by, Microsoft does absolutely nothing to fix the **** 24h2. THEY DID NOTHING. WINDOWS 11 ON THIS VERSION IS **** **** I CAN'T PLAY COD I CAN'T PLAY PATH OF EXILE 2 BECAUSE IT CONSTANTLY CRASHES. I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING AND YOU DON'T EVEN GIVE THE **** THE POSSIBILITY TO INSTALL 23H2. CONGRATULATIONS I'M GOING TO WINDOWS 10 **** WINDOWS 11

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