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Windows 11 May update causing many conflicts
The May updates are disastrous to my GPU, I got RTX 5090 in March and everything was dreamy until the May updates to Windows 11. When my GPU started failing mid May, I freaked out that it was faulty after re-installing win11 five times and still having errors, I actually started the return process of the GPU thinking it was faulty, until figured out the issue that is. Couldn't roll back drivers after fresh install so that was out of the question and Win11 requires an internet connection to complete installation so kept installing the faulty updates as a matter of course without ability to uninstall these (that needs fixing Microsoft, reinstallation should use the last stable update so people can troubleshoot properly).
The GPU kept failing when working with point clouds, at first I thought its the size of the point cloud but in the end it related to how many points were being displayed on the screen i.e. when I zoomed out to view the entire 3D Space, so even had issues with relatively small point clouds of about 250GB.
How I did figure out that its Win11 and not my GPU was by installing Windows 10 and woah, everything runs smoothly and no GPU issues at all, great but what about windows 11, will the issues ever get fixed.
What is currently lacking is communication from Microsoft on these issues, how do I know they are working on resolving it (hence Win 10 install remains on my machine for the foreseeable). Communication is essential here especially where there are faults and the community is freaking out. I mean I am considering Linux if stability doesn't return to Windows 11, or at least transparency from Microsoft.
Specs
CPU - Ultra 285K
MB - Z890 Aorus Ice Pro (BIOS F16)
RAM - 192GB DDR5
GPU ASUS RTX 5090
Currently running Win 10 build19045 which is stable (waiting to hear of fixes)
Thanks for replying. I had scoured through Reddit and computer forums and found multiple people had issues, mostly around being with the May update and hotfixes. Though, nobody really had any solutions to the problem.
dism /online/cleanup-image /restorehealth, sfc scans and chkdsk, would get dodgy from time to time, and finally after a few hours of this original post, the sfc scans started failing constantly and the in my logs it kept referencing some core library failure and unable to retrieve the necessary files from the internet. At that point, there's a plethora of 10 step guides to fix these things, but no matter what I did, it kept flagging errors.
so once that started flying its error flags, I decided to make a windows11 install usb-drive and do a complete reformat and fresh install on my main system drive. not exactly what I wanted to do, but sure as hell glad I spent the half a week and did it. After the install, I haven't run into any issues.
but yes, I agree.. Microsoft is lacking on being vocal about their updates, to even responding to issues on their own community forum. I think their new coding for doing live updates / fixes that they've been rolling out, to prevent people from having to reset their machines after an update, is screwing with the system core library. the fact that their own dism tool fails to even repair the issue too means something way screwier is going on, and I'm not sure they even know how to fix it yet.
Running Windows 11 now, build 26100.4061... just took reformatting and a complete fresh install to do it.