Microsoft confirms Windows 11 and 10 Patch Tuesday broke DirectX apps on Intel hardware

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While Microsoft's Patch Tuesday or Update Tuesday releases are generally meant to bring security fixes, these updates can often introduce various bugs as well.

Today, the Redmond company has confirmed that its November 2022 Patch Tuesday updates, for both Windows 11(KB5019980/KB5019961) as well as Windows 10 (KB5019959), had broken DirectX or Direct3D-based applications, causing an apphelp DLL file error. On the health dashboard where it describes the issue, the company has explained that the bug affects certain Intel graphics driver versions:


Although, to be fair to Microsoft, the drivers affected by the problem seem to be old as the version which supposedly helps work around the issue was released back in December of 2021 (version 30.0.101.1191). This isn't the only display related problem resolved by the driver though as it fixed a Desktop Window Manager (DWM) bug as well.