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Core Isolation can cause driver instability

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Software Windows 11
Just a heads up that this may be an issue if you are having driver timeouts, freezing or crashes.

For a couple of months, I was battling something with my PC just not sure what it was. I would get occasional and random freezes requiring a startup. I'd get driver timeouts in some games (not all). So I did the usual: rinse and replace the GPU driver, sfc, DISM, new BIOS, changed the monitor cable, reseated the memory and graphics card, reinstalled a fresh Windows, clean boot to check for conflicts. Nothing. Every startup I was getting Event ID 28 kernal errors. Something was wrong but I couldn't flush it out. Felt like the graphics card driver somehow.

Not so. Some brainy chappie at Microsoft Support when I reached out to them inquired whether I had Memory Integrity and Core Isolation enabled. I did. Then the penny dropped. Windows Defender was on occasion refusing application access to the driver via Core Isolation. When I disabled it the error messages were gone. No more freezes or driver timeouts.
 
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