{"id":593296,"date":"2026-08-23T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/593296\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:20:08","slug":"microsoft-blames-rgb-peripherals-for-game-breaking-windows-11-update-still-no-real-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/593296\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Blames RGB Peripherals for Game-Breaking Windows 11 Update\u2014Still No Real Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/351759\/windows-11-august-update-is-breaking-games-microsoft-investigates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TechPowerUp recently reported<\/a> on what appeared to be a Windows 11 update resulting in forced crashes, freezing, errors, and even forced restarts. Microsoft had previously said that it was conducting an investigation into the issue, and the software giant has since found an explanation for the issues users were reporting. According to an update published by Microsoft, the investigation has determined that some interaction between games and RGB peripherals is the cause of the issues.Ongoing investigation indicates that this issue is related to peripherals or internal device components which have RGB lighting features. Such devices may install drivers or code components with file names similar to inpoutx64. In systems where these drivers are found, the issue is then triggered by launching certain games.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/qHUgDLJOskaCh0me.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1707\" data-height=\"960\" data-fancybox=\"g351843\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/qHUgDLJOskaCh0me_thm.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> To resolve the issue, Microsoft <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/release-health\/status-windows-11-25h2#microsoft-has-received-reports-of-certain-games-becoming-unresponsive\" target=\"_blank\">recommends forcefully disabling the inpoutx64 driver via the Windows Registry<\/a>, which is explained in full in an update to the original blog admitting the issues. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has yet to come up with a proper fix for the issue, leaving disabling the peripheral driver disabled as the only recourse, although the company promises that it is working on a workaround. Microsoft itself admits that disabling the input driver &#8220;can result in unintended behavior, such as issues with RGB features on peripherals or components, or issues with the software used to control RGB features.&#8221; If users run into these issues after disabling the driver, Microsoft recommends re-enabling the driver to restore functionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TechPowerUp recently reported on what appeared to be a Windows 11 update resulting in forced crashes, freezing, errors,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":["post-593296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}