Security News > 2021 > April > Microsoft pushes emergency fix for Windows 10 KB5001330 gaming issues

Microsoft has released an emergency fix for gaming issues introduced by the Windows 10 2004 and Windows 10 20H2 KB5001330 update.

With this release of the KB5000842 of the Windows 10 preview cumulative update at the end of March and in the subsequent release of April's KB5001330 update, Windows 10 users have been experiencing performance issues when playing games.

"So i rollback to Windows 10 1909 build 18363.1500 and i'dont have any problem with the latest nvidia drivers, even youtube runs smooth without stuttering and vsync works without problems, there's something wrong with windows update," a Windows 10 users reported on the NVIDIA forums.

Last night, Microsoft released an emergency fix for Windows 10 2004 and 20H2 to resolve these issues.

"A small subset of users have reported lower than expected performance in games after installing KB5000842 or later updates. Most users affected by this issue are running games full screen or borderless windowed modes and using two or more monitors," Microsoft stated in the Windows 10 2004 and Windows 20H2 known issues and notifications site.

Using KIR, Microsoft was able to fix the bug for 145 million Windows 10 users after identifying a fix.

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