AMD says that Microsoft’s Windows 11 slows down games by up to 15%. The new operating system is currently on thousands of new and existing Personal Computers. There are still some bugs that need to be ironed out, it seems and AMD knows about this.

The company says it will be releasing an update to fix the lag this month, as it finalises testing. Performance on different games are affected, AMD says. Some games show a mild 5% performance drop. While  “games commonly used for esports” can show as much as a 15% drop in performance also.

So what’s causing this lag in performance? The company says Windows 11 increases PC’s cache latency. This has increased to Level 3 with the new operating system, which affects the entire chipset.

This lag doesn’t affect all processors though, AMD says only processors with less than eight cores with 65 watts higher TDP. Recently, AMD released an update to all its chip processor powered laptops and computers.

This update was intended for its Ryzen processors. Cybersecurity researchers found a vulnerability that allowed hackers to leak sensitive information like passwords from the drivers.

Kyriakos Economou, Co-founder of Cybersecurity firm ZeroPeril Ltd is responsible for identifying the vulnerability. AMD afterwards released a patch, citing an Information disclosure. The chip company classifies the hack severity as a medium.

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Hackers were attacking the Platform Security Processor (PSP) found in AMD’s chipset. This chipset stores sensitive information in the memory of the various operating system they ship with.

AMD’s patch known as CVE-2021-26333 prompts users to upgrade their AMD PSP driver 5.17.0.0 through a Windows update. Users can also update their AMD Chipset Driver to version 3.08.17.735.

Simply, press Windows key + S, search for update and select Check for Update. Then look for windows latest update. You will also have to restart your PC to make sure this update is working up to speed.

Back To Gaming

For Desktop gamers, the affected processors are Ryzen 2000, Ryzen 3000, Ryzen 5000, Threadripper 2000, and Threadripper 3000. If this new lag affects your PC and you can’t wait for the update; Microsoft has a 10-day downgrade period to revert back to Windows 11 until the AMD fix arrives.

 

 

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