{"id":243034,"date":"2026-08-22T01:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/microsoft-blames-windows-gaming-issues-on-rgb-lighting-devices"},"modified":"2026-08-22T01:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:15:34","slug":"microsoft-blames-windows-gaming-issues-on-rgb-lighting-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/microsoft-blames-windows-gaming-issues-on-rgb-lighting-devices","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft blames Windows gaming issues on RGB lighting devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-blames-windows-gaming-issues-on-rgb-lighting-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft says ongoing issues causing games to crash or fail to launch after installing the August 2026 Windows updates may be caused by peripherals with RGB lighting.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/microsoft-august-windows-updates-may-cause-gaming-issues-reboots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microsoft explained<\/a> when it confirmed it\u2019s investigating on Wednesday, this known issue affects games like ARC Raiders, MARVEL T\u014dkon: Fighting Souls, and The Finals on systems running Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the release of Windows updates on August 11, 2026 (KB5121003) and later, Microsoft received reports of issues involving inability to run games as expected,\u201d Microsoft said on the Windows release health dashboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft says ongoing issues causing games to crash or fail to launch after installing the August 2026 Windows updates may be caused by peripherals with RGB lighting. As Microsoft explained when it confirmed it\u2019s investigating on Wednesday, this known issue affects games like ARC Raiders, MARVEL T\u014dkon: Fighting Souls, and The Finals on systems running [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}