Microsoft has launched an emergency Home windows 11 24H2 replace to deal with an incompatibility problem triggering restarts with blue display of demise (BSOD) errors on methods with Simple Anti-Cheat.
The out-of-band replace (KB5063060) is a revised model of the Home windows 11 KB5060842 cumulative replace launched throughout this month’s Patch Tuesday after many purchasers reported experiencing system reboots and IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSODs tied to ntoskrnl.exe or EasyAntiCheat_EOS.exe crashing on computer systems working numerous video games, together with Fortnite.
Microsoft mentioned on Tuesday that the emergency replace addressed a compatibility problem and rolled out to “a restricted set of those units” working Home windows 11, model 24H2.
Nevertheless, the corporate did not initially share what {hardware} or software program configurations had been affected and what affect KB5060842 had after being put in on incompatible PCs.
Sooner or later later, Redmond revealed that the problems solely impacted units working Simple Anti-Cheat, a massively standard anti-cheating service put in with lots of of multiplayer video games (together with Apex Legends, Conflict Thunder, Useless by Daylight, ELDEN RING, Rust, Squad, NBA 2K25, and lots of others) to forestall dishonest whereas enjoying on-line.
“This replace addresses an incompatibility problem the place Home windows would possibly restart unexpectedly when opening video games that use the Simple Anti-Cheat service,” Microsoft mentioned.
“This replace downloads and installs routinely from Home windows Replace and Microsoft Replace on units with Simple Anti-Cheat put in and on units that haven’t put in KB506842 but,” it added.
If you cannot set up the KB5063060 out-of-band cumulative replace by way of Home windows Replace, you may set up it manually on x64 and arm64 methods after downloading it from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.
Microsoft additionally positioned a compatibility maintain in October to block Home windows 24H2 upgrades on Intel Alder Lake+ and vPro methods due to recognized points inflicting Simple Anti-Cheat blue screens with “MEMORY_MANAGEMENT” errors.
On Tuesday, Redmond launched safety updates (KB5060842 and KB5060999) for 66 vulnerabilities in Home windows 11, together with a publicly disclosed Home windows SMB privilege escalation flaw (CVE-2025-33073) and an actively exploited Net Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) zero-day (CVE-2025-33053).
The July 2025 Patch Tuesday Home windows updates addressed ten vital vulnerabilities, eight permitting attackers to realize distant code execution on unpatched units, and the opposite two enabling them to escalate privileges.
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