Issues with Games Windows 11 24H2

[YahyaMegahed]

Hello everyone,
Firstly, i hope this is the right place for this thread,
I, very recently, upgraded my Windows 11 OS from 22H2 to 24H2
But i think it wasn't the right decision,
Some Apps i use and many games simply won't launch
I'm most interested in "Nvidia control Panel" App that won't launch at all although Nvidia App works just fine.
I'm using Nvidia RTX4060 8 GB "I'm a casual gamer not a serious one.
Regarding games, many games won't launch, for example Deathloop and ROTTR
Resident Evil is another story, RE 2 won't launch, RE 4 loads in Task Manager but doesn't launch RE 3 AND RE 7 works just fine.
Is Windows 11 24H2 buggy or I'm missing something ?

Thank you everyone.

 

[eidairaman1]

24h2 has been a dumpster fire

 

[_roman_]

24h2 is buggy as hell, although some windows fanboys will disagree.

You may look for the software to clean uninstall the graphic card driver. Than try a clean install

My epic games do launch in windows 11 pro 24h2 - but i use a amd processor and amd graphic card.

I have c: ntfs file system corruption and problems with the windows 11 pro 24h2 amd graphic card driver from amd. Also some visual artifacts.

some german newspages wrote several different issues regarding 24h2. windows 11 is in general buggy like hell. My new refurbished notebook which i got could not upgrade from 22h2 to 23h2 or 24h2 without my help. i applied the update manually - to make the version upgrade to 23h2. This was also necessary on my main box some months ago. A refurbisher legal windows 11 pro license on a newly refurbished hardware should instantly do a version upgrade from 22h2. But it did not two weeks ago.

 

[R-T-B]

24h2 is buggy as hell, although some windows fanboys will disagree.

It was out the gate, but all the bugs I'm aware of that remain are nearly all kernel level anticheat issues, which is actually the devs of the anticheats fault, not really a bug.

That said, the "sfc" bug it had out the gate was really bad and should never have shipped.

 

[ir_cow]

24h2 has been a dumpster fire

Yep. Avoid if you can.

 

[Launcestonian]

I've never had a problem with it, new OS install from a few weeks back, all working well even with a game like Dying Light 2 Reloaded Edition using DX11 renderer - smooth as butter @ 3440x1440p 165Hz.
I maybe a sample size of 1 afaik but don't think I'm the only one out there with this experience.

 

[eidairaman1]

I've never had a problem with it, new OS install from a few weeks back, all working well even with a game like Dying Light 2 Reloaded Edition using DX11 renderer - smooth as butter @ 3440x1440p 165Hz.
I maybe a sample size of 1 afaik but don't think I'm the only one out there with this experience.

Yeah and this op is having a problem, glad you aren't but it has been troublesome since its inception.

 

[RootinTootinPootin]

there's a specific 24H2 version that has no issues with the scheduler but its a preview build. I am using it right now and runs all perfectly well. (when I say perfectly well, I used to get around 26-28k 3D Mark cpu scores, all of a sudden on 23H2 and a newer 22H2 build, it started to be around just 21-22k, and on some games I lost a huge rack of FPS, like in COD and on some games CPU Usage went up as well, on this specific build I got my lost performance back)

This is on an Intel System, on my AMD system 24H2 gave it a huge FPS boost, my ROG Ally had a huge uplift on the newer 24H2 build, I used to only get around 45FPS on 17w TDP budget but now I am running all my arcade and RPG games (KOF, SFV, SF6, Tekken 8) alot smother with 60++ FPS and with a much lower TDP budget now at 15w only since, the APU is now working perfectly and not everything runs on the CPU now.

 

[Dr. Dro]

I've never had a problem with it, new OS install from a few weeks back, all working well even with a game like Dying Light 2 Reloaded Edition using DX11 renderer - smooth as butter @ 3440x1440p 165Hz.
I maybe a sample size of 1 afaik but don't think I'm the only one out there with this experience.

I must have been lucky as well, I am using it since the initial 26100.1 release and I haven't had problems with it. I suppose 10 22H2 remains the most stable OS from MS recently. I kept my business machine on that version. On 26100.2314 right now, stable build. Works well.

My advice to OP is to try to rollback. If you need to reinstall your OS, and your machine is compatible... stick with Windows 10, for now. It's the "safe" option IMHO, 10 22H2 is what I run on my "mission critical" machine (work laptop).

 

[YahyaMegahed]

It seems almost all replies confirm there's issues within 24H2 regarding games,
I just don't understand what it has to do with Nvidia Control Panel.
Also downgrading windows is not favorable to me and i think i'll wait for windows update or Hotfix to be released.
Meanwhile i will ignore the non functional games till issues are fixed and continue playing some other games.

 

[Vayra86]

This is the build I'm using, but, all AMD system. This is a preview build and I'm going to sit here and enjoy it until I run into an issue. So far, flawless.

 

[RootinTootinPootin]

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This is the build I'm using, but, all AMD system. This is a preview build and I'm going to sit here and enjoy it until I run into an issue. So far, flawless.

I am on the same build as well, the next build to that is also a safe one which is not a preview build anymore, any further than those 2 builds its haywire.

 

[Onasi]

When you say “updated” do you mean a WU update or a clean install? Because there were murmurs of some systems not liking the update process. Personally, updated this week and no issues, but in your case you might consider a clean install, if that wasn’t the case, and then using NVcleanstall to install the driver. Should be smooth sailing. As @R-T-B said, on a current up to date stable 24H2 pretty much most of the known issues were resolved and anything that people are randomly complaining about is usually a system specific issue.
And no, there is no consensus of “there's issues within 24H2 regarding games” except for Arrow Lake performance issues, but it’s still unclear whether it’s on Intel or MS.

 

[racecar56]

I have not had problems with 24H2 even after upgrading a few systems to it. The possible exception is I noticed on my main system (refer to my specs) that it got SLOW, especially after I had to temporarily use a Ryzen 3200G during RMA of my Ryzen 9 (very recently). A fresh install fixed this. However it may not have even been on 24H2 so please take that with a helping of salt. But in any case it wouldn't surprise me with MS' wonderful track record...

 

[Banunin]

It's a good thing that at TPU we don't have users who say "use Linux" and yes, I wouldn't recommend the 24H2 to anyone, especially AMD users.

 

[Bill_Bright]

24h2 is buggy as hell, although some windows fanboys will disagree.

Come on! That's not a fair, or accurate (or helpful) statement at all.

It would be the same as saying those claiming it is "buggy as hell" are "Windows haters"!

Just because there are millions of 24h2 users who have reported they have not experienced problems, that does not make them Windows fanboys.

It always amazes me how some expect, demand, nothing short of perfection out of Microsoft, and eagerly condemn them when they don't deliver. I wonder how many can create a 30 million line program without any bugs?

NOBODY likes bugs. Microsoft surely does not like them. While it definitely seems like they could and should do a better job at beta testing before releasing these updates, there is no way any company can test every possible scenario with every possible software and hardware configuration out there.

Let's make sure we put the blame where it belongs. I have worked with developers for over 50 years now. I have not met a single one who did not get upset to learn or discover there was a bug in his or her code. So don't blame the developers because if they had their way, they would not release the code until it was perfect.

So clearly, these premature releases are the fault of the Microsoft marketing weenies and C-level execs who let the marketing weenies call the shots.

As for games, see this: Windows 11, version 24H2 known issues and notifications | Microsoft Learn

 

[dgianstefani]

Zero issues, but then again I don't do upgrade installs because they often break things.

Do a clean install.

Use NVCleaninstall and do a local account.

Shutup10 and a few other tools do the rest.

Don't bother with Home/Pro either, the real "Pro" is LTSC.

 

[Banunin]

Zero issues, but then again I don't do upgrade installs because they often break things.

Do a clean install.

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Use NVCleaninstall and do a local account.

Shutup10 and a few other tools do the rest.

Don't bother with Home/Pro either, the real "Pro" is LTSC.

LTSC there are fewer bugs, because it is a version for companies, something less domestic, so it is stronger in terms of durability unlike the common versions for home to pro

 

[adilazimdegilx]

Instead of upgrading, try a clean install. Upgrading cause all sorts of problems on 24h2. Nvidia app is now 1.0, you might wanna switch on that anyway. Control panel's days are limited.
There is also a Ltsc version available now which is debloated and faster.
If you don't have a Ryzen CPU, you might wanna stay on 23h2 though. There isn't a good reason to upgrade.

 

[Onasi]

LTSC there are fewer bugs, because it is a version for companies, something less domestic, so it is stronger in terms of durability unlike the common versions for home to pro

I wish this myth would die already. No, there is zero actual difference in terms of OS itself between editions, it’s all the same NT core. The Enterprise just has some more flexible policies available, LTSC is frozen in terms of major updates and the IOT version is stripped down of utilities/apps. That’s it. All the bugs that were present in the Home/Pro releases affected the Enterprise one exactly the same and were fixed exactly the same way via a KB update.

 

[Banunin]

Eu queria que esse mito morresse logo. Não, não há nenhuma diferença real em termos de SO em si entre as edições, é tudo o mesmo núcleo NT. O Enterprise só tem algumas políticas mais flexíveis disponíveis, o LTSC está congelado em termos de atualizações importantes e a versão IOT é despojada de utilitários/aplicativos. É isso. Todos os bugs que estavam presentes nas versões Home/Pro afetaram o Enterprise exatamente da mesma forma e foram corrigidos exatamente da mesma forma por meio de uma atualização KB.

No Windows 10 era diferente, então a Microsoft conseguiu piorar as versões comum e LTSC?

English Please

On Windows 10 it was different, so did Microsoft manage to make the common and LTSC versions worse?

 

[Onasi]

On Windows 10 it was different, so did Microsoft manage to make the common and LTSC versions worse?

It wasn’t different on 10 either, all LTSCs were identical fundamentally to the base releases they were based on (RTM, 1607, 1809 and 21H2). People seem to mistake the lack of software bloat for being a fundamentally different OS build, which it isn’t.

Again - LTSC is just essentially debloated out of the box and is frozen in terms of feature updates. That’s it. There’s nothing else going on under the hood, no “special sauce” making it fundamentally “better”. You can take a regular Pro image and configure and tweak it to the same identical state.

 

[Banunin]

Não foi diferente no 10 também, todos os LTSCs eram fundamentalmente idênticos às versões base nas quais eram baseados (RTM, 1607, 1809 e 21H2). As pessoas parecem confundir a falta de inchaço de software com uma construção de SO fundamentalmente diferente, o que não é.

Novamente - o LTSC é essencialmente desbloated pronto para uso e congelado em termos de atualizações de recursos. É isso. Não há mais nada acontecendo sob o capô, nenhum "molho especial" tornando-o fundamentalmente "melhor". Você pode pegar uma imagem Pro regular e configurá-la e ajustá-la para o mesmo estado idêntico.

ok

 

[YahyaMegahed]

I think we're being side tracked here,
Forget about the different editions.
By "upgraded" i was referring to a clean installation.
I never update from within the OS.
I did clean install after disabling SATA and Network controllers in UEFI, created a local account and installed the latest graphics driver before connecting to the internet, So i think there should not be any interference or misconfiguration or something.
Also i used Iobit Driver Booster to update all drivers, install missing ones and install missing gaming components like MS XNA, Open AL.
So what's the problem, i'm really confused.

 

[dgianstefani]

I think we're being side tracked here,
Forget about the different editions.
By "upgraded" i was referring to a clean installation.
I never update from within the OS.
I did clean install after disabling SATA and Network controllers in UEFI, created a local account and installed the latest graphics driver before connecting to the internet, So i think there should not be any interference or misconfiguration or something.
Also i used Iobit Driver Booster to update all drivers, install missing ones and install missing gaming components like MS XNA, Open AL.
So what's the problem, i'm really confused.

Don't use driver boosters.