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Windows 11 KB5074109 is causing performance drops with Nvidia GPUs

Any word on those Nvidia drivers for Linux? I just want SteamOS on my PC moving forward.

Supposedly better support is coming later this year from nvidia as well.
 

NVIDIA blames recent Windows 11 updates for gaming issues on your PC


To back users' reports, Manuel from NVIDIA's forums said that the company is still looking at the situation, but everything indicates that KB5074109 or the January 2026 Patch Tuesday update is the culprit:

Even though it started after a Windows 11 update, we are looking into it. As far as I know, the only way to resolve it appears to be uninstalling KB5074109.

Since the release of KB5074109, Microsoft issued a few more updates, including two out-of-band releases and one non-security update. The latter delivered quite a lot of useful improvements, including fixes for the bug with black screens:

[Display and Graphics] Fixed: This update addresses black screen issues in isolated multiuser environments, typically after a Windows upgrade.

If your PC exhibits similar bugs, you can try installing the latest non-security updates or rolling back KB5074109 and then pausing Windows Updates until the next batch of updates arrives. To do so, head to Settings > Windows Update > Update History > Uninstall Updates.

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