Windows 11's 22H2 is wreaking havoc on Nvidia-based gaming systems (heads up)

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Windows 11's 22H2 is wreaking havoc on Nvidia-based gaming systems​


Nvidia users may want to avoid this update, at least for now​




Published: 24th September 2022 | Source: TechSpot | Author: Mark Campbell​

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Windows 11's latest update is causing problems for systems with Nvidia GPUs

Microsoft has started to roll out their 22H2 update for Windows 11, releasing the update to over 190 countries earlier this week. As is normally the case with Windows updates, the release of Windows 11's 22H2 update is causing issues for some users, with this update bringing problems to users of Nvidia graphics cards.

Windows 11's 22H2 update has been causing framerate for Geforce GPU users, resulting in stuttering in many games, audio issues in others, and full system crashes in one cases. Gamers who have reported these issues have claimed that rolling back Microsoft's 22H2 update for Windows 11 has fixed these performance and stability issues.

So far, these gaming related issues only appear to be impacting gaming systems with Nvidia GPU hardware, and the good news is that not all Geforce-powered gaming systems appear to be affected by these bugs. Even so, users of Nvidia GPUs should probably avoid Microsoft's 22H2 update, at least until the update has had these issues ironed out.
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Both Nvidia and Microsoft are now aware of the issues affecting gamers with Windows 11's 22H2 update, which means that updates to Windows 11 and/or updates to Nvidia's Geforce GPU drivers should arrive sometime in the near future to address these performance/stability issues.

Gamers who are affected by the performance issues that are present within Microsoft's 22H2 update for Windows 11 should roll back the update to restore the performance and stability of their systems.
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Nvidia states this to do if you have this problem :-

NVIDIA Support

nvidia.custhelp.com nvidia.custhelp.com
 
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This has been mentioned in the nvidia thread, the windows 11 thread(s) and now its own thread :p

It was fixed within 2 days and everyone using GFE will have seen the update prompt anyway. Calm down and have a tea!
 
Other people use OBS and MSI Afterburner combination for game recording and system stats info.

But what's bloated about GFE? It's got some of the stuff built in that OBS has for streaming/social connection etc but other than that it is quite useful especially for seeing game settings vs "optimum" and you can change them with one click then restore back (useful for testing optimum vs your custom settings without having to mash around in-game menus one by one) and launching installed games directly from GFE. It also has a built in driver checker/updater that just works fine.

When open, GFE consumes less than 250MB RAM too and CPU usage is <1%

So I'm not seeing where the bloat is that people keep mentioning on forums.
 
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mrk said:
Other people use OBS and MSI Afterburner combination for game recording and system stats info.

But what's bloated about GFE? It's got some of the stuff built in that OBS has for streaming/social connection etc but other than that it is quite useful especially for seeing game settings vs "optimum" and you can change them with one click then restore back (useful for testing optimum vs your custom settings without having to mash around in-game menus one by one) and launching installed games directly from GFE. It also has a built in driver checker/updater that just works fine.

When open, GFE consumes less than 250MB RAM too and CPU usage is <1%

So I'm not seeing where the bloat is that people keep mentioning on forums.
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We just don't want it. :)
 
mrk said:
Calm down and have a tea!
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That's a tiny amount of memory though! I mean who on this forum has a system running GFE that is used for anything other than gaming, and thus will have at least 16GB RAM, more likely 32GB?!

People have been OK with their Chrome/Firefox browsers using over 1GB RAM with just a handful of tabs open by comparison lol.
 
mrk said:
Other people use OBS and MSI Afterburner combination for game recording and system stats info.

But what's bloated about GFE? It's got some of the stuff built in that OBS has for streaming/social connection etc but other than that it is quite useful especially for seeing game settings vs "optimum" and you can change them with one click then restore back (useful for testing optimum vs your custom settings without having to mash around in-game menus one by one) and launching installed games directly from GFE. It also has a built in driver checker/updater that just works fine.

When open, GFE consumes less than 250MB RAM too and CPU usage is <1%

So I'm not seeing where the bloat is that people keep mentioning on forums.
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GFE is not bloated, it's just spyware. Everything you do within GFE and within NVCP (and possibly even in-game) is sent back to Nvidia (i.e. telemetry). I do not consent to Nvidia collecting such data, so I don't install GFE (and I use the cleaned versions of nvidia drivers from Guru3d, so no telemetry or related crap there either). OBS and Afterburner are much better at protecting user privacy, they don't send mountains of telemetry back to the developer. Also OBS/Afterburner are just better quality software, easier to use and more capable.
 
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Is there a source that shows them doing this kind of massive spying like you say? I've seen the GFE telematry talk before, Majorgeeks did a side on it and showed:

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For all intents and purposes even today it appears to be telemetry based on crash reporting and general driver stuff rather than something malicious, even still, you can easily disable crash reporting etc, like I have using Microsoft Autoruns:

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Had no issues with the quality of GFE game recordings or other stuff. Quality seems to be no different to what people upload from OBS. I just prefer the GFE app for my kind of minimal usage for the sake of quickly keeping drivers updated and the simplicity of high quality game recordings at native res with no system impact (which OBS does anyway too).
 
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mrk said:
Is there a source that shows them doing this kind of massive spying like you say?
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That's not how this works. Assume everyone is trying their hardest to invade your privacy until proven otherwise (there's too much profit at stake for them not to try in most cases), that's the only way to effectively preserve your privacy.

Use resource monitor, look at GFE outbound connections and bandwidth when playing with settings. Notice anything?

Try blocking GFE in your firewall. When I did this several years ago, quite a few features (that shouldn't require net access) stopped working. OBS/afterburner are blocked by firewall and continue to work just fine.

It's possible GFE has cleaned up its act in the years since I used it, but I doubt it and I have no incentive to try it to find out.
 
So don't install it? It's not bloatware for most people, hence why a lot of people use it.

I'm not buying the whole spying thing. Nothing I have seen so far points to malicious spying. The onus is on you to show that it is malicious spying or something like that, not the other way round.
 
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