Microsoft’s February cumulative for Windows 11, shipped as KB5077181, lands as a broad stability-and-security repair but arrives with a complicated aftertaste: it formally addresses the Nvidia “black screen” crashes and several gaming regressions introduced in January, while simultaneously being...
NVIDIA has publicly confirmed it is investigating a wave of gaming problems that many users began seeing after Microsoft’s January cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5074109), and early vendor triage points squarely at the update as the most likely trigger: in multiple cases uninstalling KB5074109...
NVIDIA has opened an investigation after a wave of reports tied to Microsoft’s January 2026 Windows 11 update (KB5074109) described black screens, screen flicker, visual corruption and measurable frame‑rate losses on GeForce GPUs, and early community troubleshooting suggests uninstalling the...
Nvidia has acknowledged it’s investigating a wave of gaming problems that began appearing in Windows 11 after Microsoft’s January 13, 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109), with community reports describing black screens, visible artifacts in games, and measurable frame‑rate regressions on some...
The AI application boom is no longer a future conditional — it’s a present-tense force reshaping cloud economics, infrastructure strategies, and the competitive dynamics between platform owners and chipmakers, with Microsoft and NVIDIA emerging as the two most consequential winners in this phase...
USB hardware IDs can look cryptic, but in this case the mystery resolves cleanly: the device reporting as USB\VID_0955&PID_9000 is the NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) — the virtual audio endpoint NVIDIA installs to provide HDMI / DisplayPort audio output — and the usual fix is to...
NVIDIA’s GeForce Game Ready Driver 399.07 is an official, WHQL-signed Windows 10 (64‑bit) release — published on August 27, 2018 — and it is available in both desktop and notebook variants; the package includes targeted game fixes and a broad supported‑products list that explicitly covers many...
NVIDIA’s blunt advice — uninstall the April 2021 Windows 10 update (KB5001330 / KB5000842) if you see lower gaming performance — put a spotlight on a recurring tension in the modern PC ecosystem: when a security or quality update destabilizes real‑world workloads, what do vendors tell users to...
IO Interactive’s long-anticipated James Bond prequel, 007 First Light, has finally surfaced with official PC system requirements — and the headline is as much about what the studio confirmed as what it left out.
Background
IO Interactive announced a firm launch window shift for 007 First Light...
The AI infrastructure wars are no longer a forecast — they are the single largest capital race in modern technology, and the companies that supply the compute, the clouds, and the specialized silicon are already reshaping markets, policy and investor portfolios around the world.
Background: what...
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...
A high‑profile benchmarking video from Gamers Nexus — conducted on a Fedora‑based gaming image called Bazzite and covering modern GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD — argues that Linux gaming is no longer niche and, in many real‑world cases, is good enough to be a practical alternative to Windows for...
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...
NVIDIA’s rapid hotfix has largely undone a striking drop in GPU performance that surfaced after Microsoft’s Windows 11 October 2025 cumulative update (KB5066835), restoring frame rates for many GeForce users while exposing fragile dependencies between OS patches and graphics-driver behavior. The...
Nvidia’s emergency GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 581.94 has restored substantial gaming performance for many Windows 11 users after an October cumulative update (KB5066835) caused dramatic frame‑rate drops and stuttering in a variety of titles. Background
The problem began after Microsoft’s...
NVIDIA has issued an emergency GeForce Hotfix Display Driver — version 581.94 — to address a measurable drop in gaming performance that many users began seeing after Microsoft’s Windows 11 October 2025 cumulative update (KB5066835), offering a rapid mitigation while vendors investigate the...
NVIDIA has acknowledged that a recent Windows 11 cumulative update — published as KB5066835 in mid‑October 2025 — is the likely trigger for measurable drops in gaming performance on a subset of GeForce systems, and the company has issued a targeted GeForce Hotfix Display Driver, version 581.94...
NVIDIA has issued a targeted GeForce Hotfix — version 581.94 — to address a measurable drop in game performance that many users began experiencing after installing the Windows 11 October cumulative update (KB5066835), with the company explicitly stating the hotfix “addresses: Lower performance...
Nvidia has published a targeted GeForce Hotfix — version 581.94 — to undo a measurable gaming performance regression traced to Microsoft’s Windows 11 October 2025 cumulative update (KB5066835), offering a short-term mitigation for players who saw lower FPS, worse frame pacing, and increased...
Nvidia has issued an emergency GeForce hotfix to address a sudden drop in gaming performance tied to Microsoft’s Windows 11 October cumulative update (KB5066835), acknowledging that some games have been running slower or suffering worse frame pacing after that patch — and urging affected users...