{"id":10830,"date":"2022-11-30T11:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T11:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/30\/microsoft-releases-bug-fix-for-stuttering-game-performance-in-windows-11-22h2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T11:19:19","slug":"microsoft-releases-bug-fix-for-stuttering-game-performance-in-windows-11-22h2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/30\/microsoft-releases-bug-fix-for-stuttering-game-performance-in-windows-11-22h2\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft releases bug fix for stuttering game performance in Windows 11 22H2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released a fix for the bug causing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/if-youre-seeing-unexplained-stuttering-while-gaming-you-may-want-to-roll-back-the-latest-windows-11-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poor or stuttering game performance<\/a> in the 22H2 update for Windows 11. Known as KB5020044, the fix also addresses a range of other issues and adds numerous features.<\/p>\n<p>The main event for gamers involves that stuttering issue in the 22H2 update, highlighted by Microsoft itself as &#8220;lower than expected performance in some games.&#8221; A fair old way down the release notes for the new bug fix comes this critical entry:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It addresses an issue that affects some games and applications. This issue is related to GPU performance debugging features. This lowers the expected game performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As we reported previously, some games and apps were inadvertently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/if-youre-seeing-unexplained-stuttering-while-gaming-you-may-want-to-roll-back-the-latest-windows-11-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enabling GPU performance debugging features that are not intended for consumers.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Your next machine<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-gaming-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Best gaming PC<\/strong><\/a>: The top pre-built machines from the pros<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-gaming-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Best gaming laptop<\/strong><\/a>: Perfect notebooks for mobile gaming<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a fairly complex issue, with earlier reports suggesting that the issue was related to GeForce Experience software on PCs with Nvidia GPUs, with Nvidia noting that, &#8220;Windows 11 22H2 added new graphics debugging tools which are inadvertently getting triggered and this is leading to some users to see lower performance in games. We are working on a fix.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia even issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidia-issues-hotfix-for-windows-11-22h2-stuttering-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated version of GeForce Experience<\/a> designed to solve the problem back in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Happily, Microsoft has now issued a global fix for the stuttering problem. 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Known as KB5020044, the fix also addresses a range of other issues and adds numerous features.<\/p>\n<p>The main event for gamers involves that stuttering issue in the 22H2 update, highlighted by Microsoft itself as &#8220;lower than expected performance in some games.&#8221; A fair old way down the release notes for the new bug fix comes this critical entry:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It addresses an issue that affects some games and applications. This issue is related to GPU performance debugging features. This lowers the expected game performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As we reported previously, some games and apps were inadvertently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/if-youre-seeing-unexplained-stuttering-while-gaming-you-may-want-to-roll-back-the-latest-windows-11-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enabling GPU performance debugging features that are not intended for consumers.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Your next machine<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-gaming-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Best gaming PC<\/strong><\/a>: The top pre-built machines from the pros<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-gaming-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Best gaming laptop<\/strong><\/a>: Perfect notebooks for mobile gaming<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a fairly complex issue, with earlier reports suggesting that the issue was related to GeForce Experience software on PCs with Nvidia GPUs, with Nvidia noting that, &#8220;Windows 11 22H2 added new graphics debugging tools which are inadvertently getting triggered and this is leading to some users to see lower performance in games. We are working on a fix.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia even issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidia-issues-hotfix-for-windows-11-22h2-stuttering-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated version of GeForce Experience<\/a> designed to solve the problem back in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Happily, Microsoft has now issued a global fix for the stuttering problem. 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