Games that refuse to work on W11 24H2

[nomdeplume]

Please fill in any games in your library that:

- Black screen at load with or w/o audio
- Freeze or enter unusably low framerates
- Have very strange game breaking behaviors
- ???

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Dredge
Assassin's Creed Origins

 

[Shrek]

Have you tried other versions of the NVIDIA driver?

 

[nomdeplume]

Have you tried other versions of the NVIDIA driver?

I feel confident a moment's research will prove invaluable to disqualifying any ideas of this nature. Suffice to say everyone is pointing at M$ with one hand and swatting away approaches on their backend with the other.

 

[GerKNG]

W11 24H2 on ARC B580 (everything mentioned works without issues on Windows 10, have not tested 23H2)
i can't launch the Riftbreaker GPU Benchmark with my B580.
i have random massive FPS drops for ~10 seconds and then it goes back to normal in almost every game except a few.
Black Ops 6: unplayable on Arc, not even launching anymore on Pascal (1080 Ti), but flawless on any AMD Card, even my Vega 64.

 

[TommyT]

Please fill in any games in your library that:

- Black screen at load with or w/o audio
- Freeze or enter unusably low framerates
- Have very strange game breaking behaviors
- ???

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Dredge
Assassin's Creed Origins

well i have some problems with my 7600 with the last drivers 24.12.1

-rdr 2 crashing
-metro exodus enc edition also crashing after a min

and myne more games that i didnt test yet.

 

[Macro Device]

W11 Enterprise, build #26100.2605, RX 6700 XT, all driver versions (including the Preview ones) since Q1'23 tested, the outcome is the same.

Complete failures:

• Zombie Smashers X refuses to launch and throws this error:

No matter what I did to it the outcome is either this error or no reaction whatsoever.

• FIFA 09 (a.k.a. FIFA Soccer 09 in the North America) briefly shows up in the task manager, then shuts down without any visible stuff going on. Tested all No-DVDs as well (not only have I bought this game's physical copy when it was first released, they also shut their servers down so it's unplayable with the original .exe), DXVK, compatibility modes, unofficial patches, yadda yadda. Also tried a different display just for the memes. Nothing altered this behaviour.

Shakies:

• Max Payne 2 refused to ignite its launcher and therefore, the core game as well since I couldn't even hit the "Play" button. Fixed via downloading some modified No-DVD (I bought a physical copy ages ago so truck off with your anti-piracy). Now works perfectly fine.

• Postal 2 exhibits intermittent crashes. These usually happen after 2+ hrs pauseless sessions. Happens in like 1 session outta 5.

All aforementioned games caused me zero headache on W10. ZSX and Postal 2 are troublesome on all W11 versions, not only 24H2. Max Payne 2 worked fine on 22H2, never tested on 23H2. Never tested FIFA 09 on W11 older than 24H2.

Surprisingly okay experience:

• Worms: Armageddon. Patched to 3.8.1 of course.

• StarCraft Brood War.

• Grand Theft Auto III.

• Safrosoft RoX.

• FlatOut 2.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

The first one looks like "dependency hell" or Windows 11 stealth-blocked it.

 

[Macro Device]

Windows 11 stealth-blocked it

How do I make sure it's the case? Is this checkable at all?

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

How do I make sure it's the case? Is this checkable at all?

I don't know, but I wonder, especially if it's an old game.

 

[stahlhart]

Game Not Launching (Windows 11, Nvidia Graphics) | TechPowerUp Forums <-- Windows 11 in general, not specifically 24H2, but it does not launch on 24H2.

I also had trouble with all three of the "Assassin's Creed Chronicles" titles. For a brief amount of time, "Aliens: Colonial Marines" was broken, but I managed to fix it this morning. ARMA 2 had launching issues, I think it might have been BattleEye, but not sure. These titles all begin with "A" for a reason: I started at the top of my Steam library, and gave up and rolled the build back to Windows 10 before I got to "B".

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Looks like Halo Custom Edition 1.0.10 should be OK. (DirectX 9)

The last patch was in 2014, back in the Windows 8.1 days, but the game soldiers on and runs very well on Windows 11.

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

Space Marine 1 crashes right away, not even an image is displayed, just a black screen and back to the desktop.

Ryzen 5700x and Radeon 7900xtx.

 

[N3utro]

None. Works well.

 

[R-T-B]

I feel confident a moment's research will prove invaluable to disqualifying any ideas of this nature. Suffice to say everyone is pointing at M$ with one hand and swatting away approaches on their backend with the other.

It's really Kernel Level anticheat breaking things, but well I guess it doesn't matter why. It still "doesn't work" to the end user and the only commonality is 24H2.

How do I make sure it's the case? Is this checkable at all?

If it uses SecuROM DRM that's been stealthblocked for a while. Beyond that I don't know. And no, SecuROM isn't just for CD copies.

 

[taka]

No problems here. And i play a lot of games on Steam, Epic and cracked.

 

[Ruru]

Homefront is not launching, though it MAY be a PhysX issue, remember that it was a somewhat problematic game even in the W10 days.

 

[KrazyT]

Homefront is not launching, though it MAY be a PhysX issue, remember that it was a somewhat problematic game even in the W10 days.

Maybe try an old version of PhysX ?
It's the solution to "fix" Dragon Age Origins. (on Win 10 at least)

 

[Ruru]

Maybe try an old version of PhysX ?
It's the solution to "fix" Dragon Age Origins. (on Win 10 at least)

I'll do that when I'll get home. I think that worked before as well.

 

[Vayra86]

Have yet to meet the first one... I'm sorry, but I really can't join in on the 24H2 woe fest, apparently. Do I have a magical build?!

 

[nomdeplume]

It's really Kernel Level anticheat breaking things, but well I guess it doesn't matter why. It still "doesn't work" to the end user and the only commonality is 24H2.

Partly, it's responses from software companies (and retail) who continue selling a product without making any concessions. Be that months long silence followed by statement they will not be examining any potential solutions. Or making a clear statement at POS informing potential buyers their PC may not run this game. For topical reasons I'll leave off at this.

 

[AVATARAT]

Please fill in any games in your library that:

- Black screen at load with or w/o audio
- Freeze or enter unusably low framerates
- Have very strange game breaking behaviors
- ???

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Dredge
Assassin's Creed Origins

Because I have AC Origins, I started testing this problem and the game started freezing and the error is in ntdll.dll.
After some research I found that the problem is known, interestingly the problem is with the Ubisoft launcher and if you stop it** after launching the game everything works fine.
Maybe the Steam community guy is right and this is another Ubisoft shit
**The game need to be in Borderless window, it freeze in Fullscreen mode.

Links:
Microsoft
Steam

 

[R-T-B]

Partly

Almost entirely at this point. If you aren't in the kernel, you can't usually crash the OS. At least not without trying pretty hard.

This is why Microsoft cracked down on driver signatures, hard. Drivers live in the kernel.

 

[nomdeplume]

No offense but I'm already aware of all this.

Restarting in Safe Mode and jumping through numerous hoops in order to gain unstable access to limited performance is pretty solidly into refusing to work category. Microsoft itself is in the gaming business, I'll remind. Everyone involved is and lives in the modern Western world with full access to their facilities. If I wanted to discuss OS functions as they pertain to kernel level anti-cheat it stands to reason this would be located somewhere other than gaming.

GOG version of Yakuza: Like a Dragon is a pain on 24H2. Once properly set up --- works flawlessly and thus wasn't listed above.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

I haven't ran into anything but I also don't usually replay old stuff.

 

[R-T-B]

If I wanted to discuss OS functions and kernel level anti-cheat it stands to reason this would be located somewhere other than gaming.

I mean kernel level anticheat exists exclusively in gaming but fine, I guess. Your thread.