Bishopow that Home windows 11 is out, the arduous strategy of fixing the brand new working system’s bugs can start. The OS obtained its first Patch Tuesday replace earlier this week, and now one other replace is rolling out to Home windows Insiders within the Beta and Launch Preview channels. It fixes an extended record of early issues with Home windows 11.
The headliner here’s a repair for an issue affecting L3 cache latency on AMD Ryzen processors. In accordance with AMD, the bug can scale back efficiency by 3–5 p.c. The Home windows 11 replace launched earlier this week might have truly made the issue worse, however at the very least a repair is imminent.
The L3 latency bug is certainly one of a pair of issues that AMD recognized with Home windows 11 earlier this month. The opposite Home windows 11 drawback AMD recognized, which may stop high-core-count, high-wattage Ryzen chips from appropriately assigning work to the processor’s quickest particular person cores, shall be mounted through an AMD driver replace.
The Launch Preview Insider channel is often a Home windows replace’s final cease earlier than public distribution. A put up shared on Reddit suggests that the Home windows replace is being focused for launch on Tuesday, October nineteenth, whereas the AMD driver replace for the opposite drawback needs to be launched two days later, on the twenty first.
Different bugs addressed within the Home windows 11 replace embody one which prevented some upgraders from seeing the brand new Taskbar or utilizing the Begin menu, a PowerShell bug that may refill a storage quantity with “an infinite variety of youngster directories” whenever you attempt to transfer a listing into its personal youngster listing, and a variety of issues that would trigger freezes, crashes, and slowdowns.