{"id":243136,"date":"2026-08-25T01:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/microsoft-shares-temporary-fix-for-windows-11-gaming-issues"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:21:57","slug":"microsoft-shares-temporary-fix-for-windows-11-gaming-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/microsoft-shares-temporary-fix-for-windows-11-gaming-issues","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft shares temporary fix for Windows 11 gaming issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-shares-temporary-fix-for-windows-11-gaming-issues.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has shared a temporary fix for ongoing gaming issues caused by Windows 11 updates released during the August 2026 Patch Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On impacted PCs, users reported games crashing or failing to launch, as well as game freezes, \u201cEXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION\u201d errors, and even unexpected system restarts.<\/p>\n<p>When it confirmed it was investigating this known issue on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/microsoft-august-windows-updates-may-cause-gaming-issues-reboots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microsoft said<\/a> it affects games like ARC Raiders, MARVEL T\u014dkon: Fighting Souls, and The Finals on systems running Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has shared a temporary fix for ongoing gaming issues caused by Windows 11 updates released during the August 2026 Patch Tuesday. On impacted PCs, users reported games crashing or failing to launch, as well as game freezes, \u201cEXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION\u201d errors, and even unexpected system restarts. When it confirmed it was investigating this known issue on [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243136","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=243136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}