One other day with a “y” in it, one other Home windows replace subject. This time, it is AMD avid gamers complaining about Microsoft’s legendary high quality management.
The September 26 working system replace debuted final week and arrived laden with options, together with a preview of Home windows Copilot (when you have been in a “choose set of worldwide markets”), a brand new backup app, an up to date File Explorer, and extra.
Nevertheless, there’s bother behind the scenes. Along with complaints about efficiency, points with File Explorer, and reviews of wildly absurd Copilot conversations, it seems that Home windows doesn’t take kindly to customers of AMD’s Adrenaline software program and, particularly, their rigorously crafted {hardware} settings.
A prolonged thread on an AMD group discussion board summarizes the issue: when one installs the September 26 replace (aka KB5030310), there’s a probability that basic tuning settings made in Adrenaline 23.9.3 shall be reset after each boot, full with a message warning of an surprising failure.
The issue is extra than simply inconvenient. Along with the ache of getting to retune settings, there’s a non-zero probability the PC would possibly crash on the first signal of the GPU settings display.
Nevertheless, in accordance with the replace’s assist article, “Microsoft just isn’t at present conscious of any points with this replace.”
Sadly, there clearly is a difficulty since uninstalling the replace apparently makes the issue go away for AMD Adrenaline customers. The uninstallation of an replace additionally carries its personal dangers since necessary fixes may additionally be stripped from the system. Whereas KB5030310 is a non-security replace, it additionally contains fixes equivalent to addressing points round search and iCloud calendar and get in touch with synchronization.
Sleuths within the AMD group discussion board have pointed the finger at Copilot and located that turning off the function makes the issue go away. Doing so, nevertheless, requires third-party purposes equivalent to ViVe – a helpful service for energy customers eager to tweak the internals of Home windows however not supported by Microsoft or for the faint of coronary heart.
The Register contacted Microsoft and AMD for remark and can replace if any response is forthcoming. ®
