Windows 11 22H2: Microsoft launches a patch that fixes performance issues in video games

Good news for gamers. With a patch, Microsoft has fixed video game performance issues in Windows 11 22H2a claim from some affected players.

When the Redmond company released the 2022 update to its operating system, it was quickly forced to make a “protection hold” due to some problems with the news, according to what was outlined in the report published on the Redmond website. xataka.

The report explains that users who have problems with video games or some applications have an optional update available through windows update, indeed the patch in question, called KB5020044 and that promises to solve these problems.

As Microsoft OS netizens well know, as this is an optional update, it can only be obtained manually. In case you know how to install it, you just have to go to Windows Update and click on Check for updates.

What’s new in the patch

In addition to improving performance in games, this patch has other improvements, such as new OneDrive hosting overlimit alerts, easier setup and activation of Windows Spotlight, and fixes various security and performance issues.

Earlier, Microsoft had released an update that reduced the loading times of some games by more than half and also drastically lowered the load on the processor.

The update brought us version 1.1 of the technology DirectStoragereleased in March of this year, which allows graphics card shaders to directly access your NVMe SSD without going through processor processing, meaning faster loading in games.

DirectStorage also reduces the load on the processor and makes the GPU handle it directly, improving performance.

To demonstrate how powerful the upgrade is, Microsoft shared a comparison which shows that, previously, it took a PC 2.36 seconds to load 5.65 GB of game resources, with the processor running at 100 percent.