{"id":245637,"date":"2026-10-19T22:41:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/microsoft-fixes-game-app-crashes-caused-by-recent-windows-update"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:41:59","slug":"microsoft-fixes-game-app-crashes-caused-by-recent-windows-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/microsoft-fixes-game-app-crashes-caused-by-recent-windows-update","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fixes game, app crashes caused by recent Windows update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-fixes-game-app-crashes-caused-by-recent-windows-update.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused games and Windows 11 apps using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding to crash after installing the September 2026 preview update (KB5124010).<\/p>\n<p>While KB5124010 is an optional update that requires clicking a \u201cDownload and install\u201d link (reducing the number of potentially affected Windows users), it installs automatically on devices 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 Microsoft said when it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/microsoft-windows-kb5124010-update-crashes-some-games-and-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">acknowledged this issue<\/a> two weeks ago. \u201cAffected applications may vary and can include games, media players, and certain productivity applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused games and Windows 11 apps using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding to crash after installing the September 2026 preview update (KB5124010). While KB5124010 is an optional update that requires clicking a \u201cDownload and install\u201d link (reducing the number of potentially affected Windows users), it installs automatically 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":[1509,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245637","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=245637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}