Windows 11’s 2022 Update is wreaking havoc with Nvidia GPUs

If you’re the sort of PC proprietor who measures their peace of thoughts in frames per second, don’t be too fast to use the newest replace to Windows 11. The just-released Windows 11 2022 Update is inflicting numerous bugs and efficiency points, notably in machines with Nvidia graphics playing cards. That’s in keeping with a number of customers on Reddit and different spots across the internet. The complaints are actually widespread sufficient that there’s undoubtedly one thing behind them, even when it isn’t clear but fairly what it’s.

Early adopters on Reddit and elsewhere are complaining of higher-than-normal CPU utilization, leading to vital stuttering and a drop in frames per second in a wide range of video games. Others report audio glitches and the occasional full system crash, the dreaded Blue Screen of Death, in keeping with Windows Latest.

Despite the vehement outcry, these issues is likely to be affecting solely a small proportion of customers. However many Windows Insiders skilled the issue, it wasn’t sufficient to cease the sizeable replace from heading out into the final inhabitants (or, to be truthful, it’s attainable that Microsoft’s engineers determined to kick the can right down to Nvidia post-release). Of course, that will be little consolation to the customers who are seeing the problem, and don’t have a straightforward solution to repair it.

However widespread it’s, Nvidia is conscious of the issue, and presumably engaged on a driver-level repair by way of an replace. In the meantime, some customers are discovering aid by killing the NVIDIA FrameView SDK service within the Task Manager and rebooting their system. If troubles persist, you’ll be able to roll again the 2022 Update and look ahead to these wrinkles to be ironed out.