If you are the kind of PC owner who measures your peace of mind in frames per second, then don’t rush to apply the latest update to Windows 11. The newly released Windows 11 2023 update is causing a lot of bugs and performance issues especially on machines with Nvidia graphics cards. This is according to a number of users on Reddit and elsewhere on the web. The complaints are now widespread enough that there’s definitely something behind them, even if it’s still unclear what it is.
Update: Nvidia has formally resolved the Windows 11 2H23 issues with a beta update to the GeForce Experience app, available for download now. An update to the release version and full Nvidia GPU driver is expected soon. Our original coverage of performance issues continues below.
Early adopters on Reddit and elsewhere are complaining about higher-than-normal CPU usage, resulting in significant stuttering and dropped frames per second in a variety of games. Others report audio glitches and the occasional complete system crash, the dreaded Blue Screen of Death, according to Windows Latest.
Despite the vehement outcry, these issues may only be affecting a small percentage of users. As much as many Windows Insiders have experienced the issue, it wasn’t enough to stop the sizeable update from reaching the general population (or, to be fair, it’s possible that Microsoft engineers decided to kick the can for Nvidia after launch. ). Of course, this would be of little comfort to users who are seeing the problem and don’t have an easy way to fix it.
As widespread as it is, Nvidia is aware of the issue and presumably working on a driver-level fix via an update. Meanwhile, some users are finding relief by terminating the NVIDIA FrameView SDK service in Task Manager and rebooting their system. If the issues persist, you can roll back the 2023 update and wait for these wrinkles to clear.
Update: Over the weekend, Nvidia directly addressed the widespread performance issues, publishing a new beta version of the GeForce Experience app that supposedly fixes the problem. While it’s an odd move to put the fix in Nvidia’s add-on app instead of the GPU’s own default driver package, gamers who suffer from dramatic drops in performance aren’t about to look a gift horse in their mouths.
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The download is also available from within GeForce Experience itself by opening the Settings menu and selecting “Enable Experimental Features”. If you don’t want to use GeForce Experience, Nvidia says a new Game Ready Driver will be released “the week of September 26”.
