In October 2024, Microsoft launched Home windows 11 model 24H2 with fairly an extended listing of identified bugs and improve blocks. Ever since, Microsoft has been slowly patching these bugs and lifting blocks one after the other. Now, the corporate is eradicating one other improve block, letting extra Home windows 10 and Home windows 11 customers improve to the most recent model forward of the upcoming finish of Home windows 10 help.

The block in query impacts PCs with Simple Anti-Cheat, an anti-cheat answer embedded in lots of widespread video games, corresponding to PUBG or Fortnite. In keeping with the official documentation, the compatibility concern impacts techniques with Intel’s Alder Lake+ processors and the vPro platform with Simple Anti-Cheat drivers launched earlier than April 2024. Affected techniques crash to the blue display screen of dying (now black display screen of dying) with the “MEMORY_MANAGEMENT” error. Nonetheless, blue screens of dying don’t happen if video games don’t use outdated drivers which are current on the gadget.

The improve block was positioned on September 30, 2024, and now, almost ten months later, Microsoft has lifted it. As of July 24, 2025, affected techniques can lastly set up Home windows 11 model 24H2 through Home windows Replace. Notice that Home windows Replace would possibly nonetheless immediate you to replace video games that use an incompatible Simple Anti-Cheat model.

Compatibility points with Simple Anti-Cheat are solely current in Home windows 11 model 24H2, so if you’re operating older Home windows 11 variations or Home windows 10, there shouldn’t be any crashes, even with outdated drivers.

Home windows 11 model 25H2 is coming in a few months, however its predecessor nonetheless has a number of improve blocks in place. There are compatibility points with Intel Good Sound Know-how drivers, hanging apps that use the digicam, audio output losses on PCs with Dirac Audio, and sprotect.sys driver points.