Neowin News Feed for: Hotfix

Nvidia blames Microsoft's Windows 11 KB5066835 for performance issues, hotfix driver out

Sayan Sen — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:10:01 +0000

Nvidia has blamed Microsoft's latest Windows 11 KB5066835 update for performance issues. The company has rolled out a new emergency hotfix driver. Read more...

Nvidia shares Windows hotfix driver 576.66 for FC 25 crashes, browser video bugs, and more

Sayan Sen — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 22:32:01 +0000

Nvidia has released yet another hotfix driver for its GeForce RTX 5000 series graphics cards. This time they fix video playback problems on browsers and more. Read more...

Nvidia shares hotfix driver for Windows Sleep temperature bug, Modern Standby black screen

Sayan Sen — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:26:01 +0000

Nvidia has released a major hotfix drvier to fix Windows temperature issues related to Sleep, as well as a Modern Standby black screen issue, and more. Read more...

Microsoft releases KB5058919/KB5058922/KB5058921 Windows 11 and 10 out of band updates

Sayan Sen — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 06:12:01 +0000

Microsoft has published new out-of-band updates for Windows 11, Windows 10, as well as for Server to fix a Group Policy issue. Read more...

KB5002623: Microsoft fixes Office, Outlook, Word, Excel KB5002700 hangs and freezes

Sayan Sen — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 06:48:01 +0000

Microsoft's busy week of bug fixing on Office and M365 continues as it resolves a major KB5002700 update bug where Office apps would hang or freeze. Read more...

Nvidia releases another hotfix to resolve even more problems with RTX 50 graphics cards

Taras Buria — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 09:16:01 +0000

Nvidia has released another hotfix driver to resolve more issues with the RTX 5000 series graphics cards. Read more...

Nvidia shares Windows Hotfix Driver 572.65 to fix DisplayPort black screen booting

Sayan Sen — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 16:34:01 +0000

Nvidia has released a new hotfix display driver update for Windows 11 and 10 PCs as they were booting up to black screen when using DisplayPort. Read more...

Flight Simulator 2024's first hotfix targets multiple crashing issues, missing cursor

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:52:01 +0000

The Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 development team has pushed out the title's first hotfix, and it targets some of the critical crashing issues being faced by players. Read more...

Age of Mythology: Retold gets its first hotfix update before its official release Sept. 4

John Callaham — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 13:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has released the first hotfix update for it RTS game Age of Mythology: Retold before the official release of the game on September 4. Read more...

Nvidia Broadcast gets fixes for Windows 11 version 24H2

Taras Buria — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:04:01 +0000

Nvidia has issued a hotfix for its Broadcast application running on systems with Windows 11 version 24H2 preview builds to resolve problems with the Nvidia Broadcast virtual camera. Read more...

Nvidia's new hotfix driver for Windows fixes web browsing stutter, VSYNC micro-stutters

Sayan Sen — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 09:44:02 +0000

Nvidia has released yet another display driver update for Windows, though this time, it is a special hotfix driver that is meant to fix stutters and micro-stutters during gaming and/or web browsing. Read more...

NVIDIA Hotfix driver fixes Windows 10 transparency, random BSODs, Alan Wake 2 performance

Sayan Sen — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:02:02 +0000

NVIDIA today has issued a hotfix driver update that fixes multiple bugs and problems with display, gaming, and general annoyance. The driver resolves a Windows 10 transparency bug, random BSODs. Read more...

First Cities: Skylines II hotfix rolls out on Steam, but not yet on PC Game Pass

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:19:04 +0000

Cities: Skylines II developer Colossal Order today pushed out the first update to its city builder. The hotfix carries optimizations aimed at improving performance, but Game Pass players have to wait. Read more...

Bethesda plans "years and years" of updates for Starfield, first hotfix out now

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 15:41:17 +0000

Starfield's first hotfix is out now with performance improvements and bugfixes. Bethesda has also pledged to support the game for "years and years" to bring fixes and new features. Read more...

Nvidia quietly outs 511.72 Hotfix driver to fix G-SYNC fail, CoD: Vanguard bug, and more

Sayan Sen — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 11:16:01 +0000

A new Hotfix driver version 511.72 was released by Nvidia yesterday. The driver fixes G-SYNC-related problems, a corruption bug on Call of Duty: Vanguard, and a launch fail issue on AC: Valhalla. Read more...

Halo Infinite update brings Big Team Battle fixes and other tweaks

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:58:46 +0000

343 Industries has pushed out a small update for Halo Infinite that finally resolves the Big Team Battle matchmaking issues, letting Xbox and PC players jump back into the 12 versus 12 arenas. Read more...

Microsoft issues advisory about new SolarWinds cyberattack

Usama Jawad — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 12:54:01 +0000

Microsoft has issued an advisory about a cyberattack from a Chinese group targeting SolarWinds' products. A hotfix has been released but organizations are still advised to review guidance. Read more...

Cyberpunk 2077 1.12 hotfix addresses the mods-related security vulnerability

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:00:01 +0000

CD Projekt RED has pushed out a hotfix for the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 addressing the security vulnerability that was exposed earlier this week related to exposed external DLL files. Read more...

AMD Ryzen CPUs reportedly get a boost in Cyberpunk 2077 thanks to this unofficial patch

Sayan Sen — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:02:01 +0000

A patch has been released by a Redditor that improves performance on AMD Ryzen CPUs in the extremely popular Cyberpunk 2077 title. The hotfix enables SMT on Ryzen for better CPU utilization. Read more...

Nvidia releases hotfix 431.68 driver to fix disappearing mouse cursor

Steven Parker — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 11:48:01 +0000

If when you are exiting a game your mouse cursor is gone, even for a moment, then you may be affected by a bug that appeared alongside last weeks 431.60 drivers; here's the fix for that. Read more...

Mozilla releases add-on to fix disabled extensions in older versions of Firefox

Steven Parker — Wed, 15 May 2019 10:44:01 +0000

After last week pledging to support older versions of its Firefox browser that were affected by the disabled add-on certificate signing, Mozilla has now released extensions that fix versions 47 to 65. Read more...

Nvidia releases 430.53 hotfix drivers, fixing high CPU usage bug introduced with last update

Vishal Laul — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 09:54:01 +0000

Nvidia today released its GeForce 430.53 hotfix drivers, fixing the high CPU usage bug that was introduced with the last driver release. There are a few other bug fixes included as well. Read more...

Windows 10 snags one more update, fixes firmware update error for Surface 3 & Pro 3

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 19:42:01 +0000

After a flurry of updates and hotfixes, it looks like Microsoft is in no hurry to cool down, with another update already being pushed out to Windows 10. It also fixes a update error for Surface. Read more...

Microsoft pushes out yet another hotfix for Windows 10

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 23:32:01 +0000

Head of the Insider Program, Gabriel Aul, has announced that Microsoft is pushing out yet another hotfix (KB3074674) for all insiders using Windows 10 Build 10240. Read more...

MetroTwit comes out of retirement, but only for SSLv3 hotfix

Steven Parker — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:00:01 +0000

The POODLE bug knows no bounds and has even affected the MetroTwit app, and as a result, the developers have decided to issue a hotfix for the retired Twitter client - but this is probably a one-off. Read more...

AMD Catalyst 11.1a Hotfix

Steven Parker — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:33:10 +0000

AMD has released a new build of their Catalyst software suite. This particular software suite updates both the AMD Display Driver, and the Catalyst Control Center. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide... Read more...

Microsoft warns of critical unpatched Windows Shell vulnerability

Tom Warren — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:30:04 +0000

Microsoft issued a security bulletin on Friday to warn customers of a 0-day exploit involving the Windows Shell. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in Windows Shell when parsing shortcuts (.lnk). The flaw can... Read more...

3DMark Vantage Hotfix Released

Fri, 23 May 2008 03:33:03 +0000

3DMark Vantage received some strong feedback on some of the choices made during the development. There were also some small but annoying bugs found only after launch. A hotfix to polish things up was announced... Read more...

Vista "Out of Memory" Error When Copying Files Hotfix

Steven Parker — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:41:32 +0000

You just can't seem to throw enough memory at Vista. There have been a number of issues that Vista users have reported relating to copying and moving data, especially large numbers of files. Often there... Read more...

Get a hotfix -- without having to call Microsoft...

Steven Parker — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:50:20 +0000

You now can obtain a hotfix without having to interact with a single soul ( no phone calls etc.. ) Easy and convenient. Take for example my previous post for the netlogon DCR -... Read more...

Researcher: PatchGuard hotfix stitches up benefit to MS

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:08:42 +0000

Microsoft has come under fire for quietly releasing a fix to its controversial PatchGuard kernel protection software in order to improve the performance of its Virtual Server 2005 product. PatchGuard is a much-touted security addition... Read more...

Critical Windows Hotfix Causes Problems

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:36:32 +0000

A Microsoft patch meant to fix critical security flaws in Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is causing trouble for some users, the company said Friday. The patch was released... Read more...

SMS 2003 SP1 Hotfix

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:42:02 +0000

If the computer name of a Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 SP1 Advanced Client is changed, the delta hardware inventory that is created following the rename will be rejected. This causes a resync, or... Read more...

Hotfix for Windows Small Business Server 2003: KB 833992

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 16:26:13 +0000

POP3 Connector Fails to Download Mail with Windows Small Business Server 2003 This download address a particular way mail downloads can fail when using the POP3 connector in Small Business Server 2003. This... Read more...

NTSC-J, PAL, and SECAM TV Tuner Hotfix for DirectX 9.0b

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:47:28 +0000

DirectX 9.0b was released on 7/23/03 to address the MIDI security issue identified in bulletin MS03-030. A small number of non-security fixes were also included in the release. One of these fixes caused several TV... Read more...

NTSC-J, PAL, and SECAM TV Tuner Hotfix for DirectX 9.0b

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:20:13 +0000

Quick Info File Name: DirectX9b-KB825116-x86-ENU.exe - Download Size: 289 KB - Date Published: 9/4/2003 - Version: 9.0b Overview DirectX 9.0b was released on 7/23/03 to address the MIDI security... Read more...

Windows XP and SP1 Kernel Rollup Hotfix Package

Tom Warren — Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:03:56 +0000

Thanks A-KO for this.....A kernel rollup hotfix package is available for Windows XP and Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1). The kernel rollup hotfix package replaces the hotfixes that are listed below: ... Read more...

Windows XP HotFix Q820291 - New Icon Location

Steven Parker — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 11:30:35 +0000

This just in from Warp2search (Thanks Gregg) The new Fix from MS for Windows XP seems to hide more then we thought it would do... Besides I was talking to my friend Olcay... Read more...

Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 SP1: Hotfix for Bug #82101

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 24 May 2003 09:14:44 +0000

Quick Info File Name: Q821014.EXE - Download Size: 7151 KB - Date Published: 5/23/2003 - Version: 2000 SP1 Overview This release also contains a Hotfix that is required by... Read more...

Microsoft pulls hotfix Q811493

Steven Parker — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 16:40:45 +0000

or rather moved it from Critical Updates to Windows XP in Windows Update. Thanks Large for his post in BPN on our forums. Microsoft is revising a security patch for Windows XP systems... Read more...