Microsoft Offers Fix for Windows 11 Gaming Performance Issues

Microsoft is offering Windows 11 users a preview of an update that fixes some gaming performance problems. The software maker originally warned of issues with lower than expected performance in some games earlier this month, after some Windows 11 users that had upgraded to the latest 2022 Update (22H2) noticed problems. From a report: "Some games and apps might experience lower than expected performance or stuttering on Windows 11, version 22H2," said Microsoft at the time. "Affected games and apps are inadvertently enabling GPU performance debugging features not meant to be used by consumers." While Microsoft didn't list the exact apps and games experiencing problems, the company did block the Windows 11 2022 Update for systems with affected games and recommended people not upgrade. That safeguard was removed around a week ago, and now Microsoft has issued a full fix. If you're running the Windows 11 2022 Update, you can check Windows Update and find a KB5020044 update preview that you can install.

The endless beta

[ozzymodus12]

I'm still unsure what advantage one can receive by using Windows 11. 10 works great for business and gaming.

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[drinkypoo]

Nothing worth upgrading for. The benefit of Windows 10 is being able to conveniently use DirectX 12 which works fine on Win7 and Win8, but you have to work your way around the blocks Microsoft put in the way to prevent it — they know nobody would bother with 10 if they weren't strongarmed into it. But the only technical benefit of Windows 11 is improvements to WSL. Unlike DX12 that might actually involve kernel improvements — DX12 is literally just some libraries, and the driver support.

Or you c

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[jwhyche]

I've had a few "real" gamers ask me if they should switch to windows 11. My response has been universally only if you like round windows. Windows 11 looks nice but doesn't really bring anything technical to the table to help gamers.

Re:The endless beta

[iampiti]

A tangible benefit of Windows 11 is a process scheduler that knows about the assymetric ("big-little") cores in Intels 12th and 13th Core CPUs. It can schedule threads better than Win 10 and thus make better use of the resources.
There's also likely a few more but I do agree with you that Windows 10 is very close to 11. Also 11 has a few drawbacks like the removal of some features (can't "ungroup" windows of an app in the taskbar and consequently can't show labels on the taskbar) and performance regressions in some built-in apps.
So all in all, I wouldn't use Win 11 yet.

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[drinkypoo]

Hmm, forgot about the scheduler upgrades. I suspect they could be easily backported though, if they cared, based on the short amount of time between the releases of Windows 10 and 11. I don't mess with Intel any more, though. The last Intel processor I bought new (and not in some ultra-cheap used system) was a Slot 1 P2-400... and the last one I bought used was a Core 2 Duo. AMD is expected to release processors with efficiency cores next year, but I suspect my el cheapo 1600AF will hold me for a while. My

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[thegarbz]

But the only technical benefit of Windows 11 is improvements to WSL.

Sure. If that's all you care about that may be your only technical benefit. You've clearly not researched actual changes (I mean other than reading whining about the latest UI moves).

Or you could run Linux

Yeah because the solution a couple of games having performance issues on one specific version of Windows which is fixed is to install an OS which has performance issues as well as compatibility issues across the board.

Look let's wait for the year of Linux on Desktop before we pretend that it is the optimum gaming OS shall we? S

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[drinkypoo]

Yeah because the solution a couple of games having performance issues on one specific version of Windows which is fixed is to install an OS which has performance issues as well as compatibility issues across the board.

No one, including you, has a clue what you're blathering about here, except for the compatibility issues — running Windows software is still a minefield, and it's true that there are occasionally superior Windows drivers for some things than there are for Linux. However, most of those devices are shitty PSCs, and virtually all of the rest are specialized hardware that most users will never lay eyes upon so long as they live.

Linux offers superior performance to everything else that offers its functiona

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[guest reader]

Linux offers superior performance to everything else that offers its functionality

Was that a sarcasm? Sure, Linux has great performance, but only if you create your own tuned distribution and run it without graphical user interface. Linux on phones probably means Android, which is just ugly mess (try to compile it from scratch).

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[drinkypoo]

Let me go backwards here

Linux on phones probably means Android, which is just ugly mess (try to compile it from scratch).

Yes, trying to build Android is ridiculous. That's not Linux's fault, though. Building Linux is usually not too bad.

Linux offers superior performance to everything else that offers its functionality

Was that a sarcasm? Sure, Linux has great performance, but only if you create your own tuned distribution and run it without graphical user interface.

I've done a lot of dual booting over the years, and while historically what you say was very true, today it is the exact opposite. Whether nvidia with the binary driver, or AMD with the open driver, today you will get better graphics performance on Linux even with X11 than you will on Windows. Whether you're talking about Vulkan or OpenGL, or one of the well-supported D

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[Billly Gates]

Since when does it offer performance and reliability improvements in gaming compared to WIndows?

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[Billly Gates]

DirectWrite is sweet and will give console like performance in instant loading times. Nvidia is also experimenting with it's own CUDA AI IO driver for professional server work loads.

The IO stack in 11 supports it. Windows 10 it does not. It explains why much faster NVME sticks vs SSDs do not offer quick booting which 11 will solve in loading game architecture.

Windows 11 has much better container and VM support and GPU access in WSL for machine learning and other things that 10 lacks.

Re: The endless beta

[phinn888]

Win11 works awesome on my build, 5800X / 3070. For having tabs in file explorer alone Iâ(TM)d never go back to tired Win10.

Minesweeper runs very slowwwwww

[xanthos]

or so I hear.

Not a "preview"

[mrobinso]

FYI, "2022-11 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5020044)" is listed in windows update, but not listed as a "preview".

Installed the update.

[Petersko]

Just... don't. It's a fucking train wreck. My formerly stable system is now chugging awat at 20-50% CPU utilization when doing absolutely nothing but running task manager. The primary culprit is "System" - the kernel. This is new behaviour. I use my system for audio work, so I'm very aware of its performance.

This is the first time in about a decade that I got fucked by an update... but boy howdy, it's a good one.

I've got your fix for W11 gaming issues...

[wernercd]

... it's called Windows 10. 11 can die in a fire.

Hardware reserved memory ..

[takionya]

A section of memory is hardware reserved for Windows Gaming. Is this available for third party games?

Solitaire

[Stephen Chadfield]

The only game in town.