A cumulative Windows 11 update released in October 2025 severely degraded gaming performance on many systems using NVIDIA graphics hardware, with players and independent testers reporting drops in frame rates as large as 50% in some titles — most notably Assassin’s Creed: Shadows — before NVIDIA...
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows has begun exhibiting severe stuttering and dramatic FPS drops on Windows 11 systems after Microsoft’s October cumulative update KB5066835, with independent testing and community telemetry reporting declines as large as 33–50% in demanding scenes — a regression...
Recent weeks have placed Nvidia in a challenging spotlight, highlighting an array of technical issues that have rattled both casual users and enthusiasts within the PC community. The problems range from hardware concerns—like overheating and burning connectors—to intricate software bugs...
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