NVIDIA's investigating FPS drops and visual glitches with its GPUs related to Windows 11 update

NVIDIA has said that it's now looking into problems with its GeForce GPUs caused by the most recent update for Windows 11.

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Windows Latest reports that the January update for Windows 11 is visiting a bunch of glitches on gamers with NVIDIA graphics cards, which includes nasty instances of screen flickering, and being treated to black screen stalls before the desktop eventually appears on boot (or when games are loading).

There's also evidence of visual corruption in some games (Forza Horizon 5 being an example), and other reports point to stuttering in games, and frame rate drops to the tune of 10 to 20 FPS.

These complaints are being seen across both Microsoft's Feedback Hub and NVIDIA's GeForce forums, and on the latter, an admin, Manuel, has replied to one of the pieces of feedback.

Manuel noted of the issue raised: "Even though it started after a Windows 11 update, we are looking into it. As far as I know, the only way to resolve it appears to be uninstalling KB5074109."

So, the admin is making it clear this is not an issue with NVIDIA's GPU driver, but is a problem on Microsoft's side - but nonetheless, Team Green is investigating, presumably to see if it can lend a hand with the solution.

Note that the black screen issues may be cured by applying patch KB5074105, the preview (optional) update which was deployed after the January update (KB5074109) - but the other mentioned problems aren't fixed with that release.

Windows 11 is off to a pretty terrible start to the year in terms of the number of bugs coming through. Let's hope that the February update, which arrives next week (and is in preview now, as KB5074105), has a cleaner bill of health for glitches than this last patch.