Friday, November 23rd 2018
Microsoft Halts Windows 10 October Update Rollout Yet Again, Affects Only Some Intel Users
Microsoft has blocked rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update on systems using Intel Integrated Graphics with specific driver versions. Apparently audio playback, when using a monitor connected to the IGP, will no longer work after the upgrade to October Update.
According to Microsoft, the underlying reason for the issue is that "Intel inadvertently released versions of its display driver [...] to OEMs that accidentally turned on unsupported features in Windows."
If you want to work around this, then check your Intel driver version using GPU-Z. If you see "24.20.100.6344" or "24.20.100.6345", just upgrade your graphics drivers and you should be good to go.
Source:
Microsoft
According to Microsoft, the underlying reason for the issue is that "Intel inadvertently released versions of its display driver [...] to OEMs that accidentally turned on unsupported features in Windows."
If you want to work around this, then check your Intel driver version using GPU-Z. If you see "24.20.100.6344" or "24.20.100.6345", just upgrade your graphics drivers and you should be good to go.
49 Comments on Microsoft Halts Windows 10 October Update Rollout Yet Again, Affects Only Some Intel Users
Is that what we call bugs these days?
One cannot expect this from non technical users, but nonetheless... There is so much hate going around when someone f**** up, it disgusts me.
Take NVIDIA RTX and M$ october update as examples. People can't wait for a reason to hate. Just a wonderful reminder of what human beings really are.
Cheers.
And let's not forget these companies represent the top of the food chain, either... this performance isn't really representative of it.
I have had the notorious desktop stutter/hang issue on a notebook with intel igpu and nvidia dgpu hybrid graphics, it has taken M$ + Intel a lot of time to fix it but they did it in the end. One of the solutions was to rollback to a previous win 10 version. I chose to use only nv gpu instead.
I’d say that’s a good reason for hate to be flowing around on MS. Especially if you have thousands of lines of code to compile correctly.
Honestly, the bottom line will never change. If you release something it better be good. And you'd better be on the money with fixing what isn't good, and every day you fail to do that, you can expect that it costs you money and goodwill. That's how the world works, and not the way you propose it does, by being apologetic towards one another because its oh-so-difficult to do it right. If its too difficult, you're doing the wrong job or the job is managed in the wrong way. End of story. Nvidia's RTX is another shining example of it. Every day we haven't seen a nice bit of content to convince us this is truly worthwhile, is a day Nvidia takes flak for their ridiculous plan.
- breaking the OS at login screen (login then black screen forever)
- breaking compatibility with various anti-virus software
- breaking compatibility with document encryption software
There's zero excuse for a company not to have a QA department, especially a behemoth like Microsoft.
Real men do it in production!
The only thing I've noticed, though, is that one of the recent minor updates brought back my normal sound levels, which I lost sometime around 16xx updates (and it's not related to the new headphone virtualization function).
Maybe by the time 1809 finally gets released they'll include fixes for blurry icons in the taskbar and nagging notifications...