Microsoft's latest Windows 11 release preview update KB5124010 has received user complaints that the update is causing certain games to crash. Reported by Neowin, multiple user reports claim that Windows 11's latest preview update is causing Battlefield 6, WARDOGS, and some other games with anti-cheat support to crash.
Neowin pointed to several Reddit posts and Steam posts showing users complaining about Battlefield 6, WARDOGS, and EAC games crashing. Some users report just Battlefield 6 crashing on their PCs; others report WARDOGS crashing on their PCs, and some others also reported Battlefield 2042 and Fallout New Vegas crashing with the update.
The workaround is to completely uninstall KB5124010, which reportedly helped several gamers fix their game-crashing issues. There's still no full confirmation that anti-cheat issues are causing these games to crash, but it appears all of the games that are proving problematic with the Windows update do have some form of anti-cheat, whether that be Easy Anti-Cheat or another anti-cheat system.
This is not the first time a Windows update has caused game crashes this year; last month, another Windows 11 update, KB5121003, caused issues with some multiplayer titles, including Arc Raiders and The Finals, causing game crashes. The main culprit with this specific update was an issue surrounding devices and peripherals with RGB lighting that were triggering the crashes with this specific update.
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If you are thinking about installing KB5124010, it might be worth delaying installing the update until Microsoft fixes this issue for those who play PC games with baked-in anti-cheat support.
