How annoying are Windows 10's automatic updates? In a new study, a group of UK researchers report that users of Home edition experience unexpected restarts and inconsistent installation times, caused by inappropriate defaults and inadequate notice of pending updates. Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates
The Windows 10 version 1809 update history page alone has over one million page views and counting. Microsoft: You really should bookmark this Windows 10 update history page Researchers say Intel won't be able to use a software mitigation to fully address the problem Spoiler exploits. Microsoft has hit pause on part of its Windows 10 Insider preview program due to a green screen of death glitch that it can't fix.Īll Intel chips open to new Spoiler non-Spectre attack: Don't expect a quick fix Windows 10 previews grind to halt over GSOD bug that Microsoft can't fix KB4482887, released today, enables Google's Retpoline mitigation in the Windows 10 kernel (only for v1809 users). Microsoft rolls out Google's Retpoline Spectre mitigation to Windows 10 users Microsoft intends to enable Retpoline gradually over the coming months. Retpoline is a less taxing mitigation for the same vulnerability.Īlthough KB4482887 does contain Microsoft's implementation of Retpoline, the employee noted it needs to be enabled, which it had not been as of March 3. The employee also addressed speculation that the gaming performance issues could have been caused by this update enabling Retpoline, the Google-developed software-based mitigation for Spectre variant 2.Īs Microsoft noted in a blog this month, the original microcode updates from chipmakers resulted in "larger performance degradation than we'd like on certain processors and workloads".
"As a short-term resolution, users can uninstall KB4482887 to regain performance," Microsoft said, adding that it will provide a resolution in an upcoming update.Ī Microsoft employee said to be on the Windows kernel team fortunately did notice the thread a few days ago and called on affected users to report the issue through the Feedback Hub for Microsoft to investigate.
SEE: 20 pro tips to make Windows 10 work the way you want (free PDF)īut even before Microsoft officially acknowledged the issue on Thursday, that user had figured out that uninstalling KB4482887 and pausing Windows update to prevent it from reinstalling would resolve the problem.
"At first I thought it may have been the latest Nvidia driver so I reverted and tried each of the last four official versions, and the problem was still there." It also felt as though my mouse setting and sensitivity were messed up even though I had been comfortable with the settings I have for quite a long time now," wrote another Reddit user. "I logged in to play some yesterday prior to Season of the Drifter starting this Tuesday and noticed my game was unusually sluggish. While Microsoft has now confirmed the performance issue is due to the update KB4482887, Windows 10 users have for the past two days been trying to figure out the source of the problem themselves, running through other possible suspects like graphics drivers. If you don't move the mouse, game appears fine," wrote one user. Right after installing this update, I launch any of the two aforementioned games, moving the mouse around (yes, mouse movement) causes the game to freeze in one second intervals every time.
"This patch is causing massive lag spikes in older games, like CoD4 and CoD MW2. However, the bug doesn't affect games like the 2018 release, Battlefield V. The problems are reportedly worse on games that are nearly a decade old, like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The update KB4482887 has been creating huge performance problems for some gamers on Windows 10, affecting mouse movements and graphics.Īs reported on Wednesday by Windows watcher Woody Leonhard, there are two very busy threads on Reddit from users who've had problems with Destiny 2 and other games.