{"id":244933,"date":"2026-10-06T01:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/microsoft-windows-kb5124010-update-crashes-some-games-and-apps"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:31:32","slug":"microsoft-windows-kb5124010-update-crashes-some-games-and-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/microsoft-windows-kb5124010-update-crashes-some-games-and-apps","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft: Windows KB5124010 update crashes some games and apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-windows-kb5124010-update-crashes-some-games-and-apps.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft confirmed over the weekend that some games and applications using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding will crash after installing the September 2026 KB5124010 Windows 11 preview update.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/windows-11-kb5124010-update-released-with-46-changes-and-fixes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KB5124010<\/a> is an optional update that requires users to click the \u201cDownload and install\u201d link, which should reduce the number of potentially affected Windows users. However, it installs automatically on devices running Windows 11 24H2, where the \u201cGet the latest updates as soon as they\u2019re available\u201d option is toggled on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some cases the application can fail to launch, or close without warning. In other cases the application will work normally until certain features are used, such as playing music,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/release-health\/status-windows-11-26h2#applications-which-require-ac-3-audio-decoding-might-close-unexpectedly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microsoft said<\/a> in a Friday update to the Windows release health dashboard. \u201cAffected applications may vary and can include games, media players, and certain productivity applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft confirmed over the weekend that some games and applications using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding will crash after installing the September 2026 KB5124010 Windows 11 preview update. KB5124010 is an optional update that requires users to click the \u201cDownload and install\u201d link, which should reduce the number of potentially affected Windows users. However, it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1495,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-health","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244933","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=244933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}