Your fancy RGB lights are officially breaking Windows 11 games
Microsoft has discovered that your overpriced glow-in-the-dark keyboard is apparently the reason your games keep crashing. It is almost impressive how a billion-dollar OS can be defeated by a lightbulb.
After the latest rounds of Windows 11 updates, players found themselves staring at EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION errors instead of their favorite titles like ARC Raiders or The Finals. While Microsoft is busy pointing fingers at third-party hardware, the actual culprit seems to be a file called inpoutx64.sys. This driver, often bundled with flashy lighting software, is apparently too sophisticated for Microsoft's current kernel updates to handle.
Embark Studios, clearly tired of waiting for a fix, suggested that users manually delete system files to stop the carnage. This isn't the first time the company has struggled with basic stability, having previously clashed with Easy Anti-Cheat and Auto HDR, proving that even a simple light show is enough to throw a wrench into the entire Windows ecosystem.
The sheer irony of a multi-billion dollar operating system getting taken down by a driver designed to make a mouse glow neon pink is peak computing. If high-end gaming hardware is now considered 'incompatible' with the newest OS just because it has LEDs, maybe it is time to admit that the software side is held together with digital duct tape and hope.
Source: Microsoft
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