Update KB5035853 for Windows 11which began deploying a week ago, appears to be causing problems on PCs using integrated AMD Radeon graphics, both laptops and ASUS ROG Ally portable consoles that run Microsoft’s operating system and which ultimately don’t. they’re more than a standard x86 mini-PC with a Nintendo Switch-like shape.

Affected users report loss of performance due to bottlenecks that did not exist before. Neither AMD nor Microsoft have said anything about it yet, but there are reports on social networks like Reddit from users complaining about a problem with the integrated Radeon graphics present in the red giant’s APU.

To give specifics, but they come from people reporting (which may differ from AMD and/or Microsoft’s official conclusions, should the companies confirm the issue), in some cases it has been seen that the clock frequency is limited to only 800MHz and the turbo mode does not come into play. Other users also report blue screens of death, the messenger they often blame for Windows problems. If we consider that the integrated GPU Radeon 780M is capable of working at a frequency of up to 2.7 GHz, at least in the ASUS ROG Ally, we find an obvious loss of performance that should make a large number of video games unplayable.

Fortunately, the problem has an obvious solution, which consists of going to Windows Settings, then to the Applications section, and looking in the list for the item corresponding to AMD software to launch advanced options, select repair and reboot, then reboot the device itself. Another workaround that has surfaced, although specifically aimed at the ASUS ROG Ally, is to go into the preferences in the AMD Adrenaline application settings and disable the overlay option (overlap) in games, close the app and restart the console.

That Windows 11 is in the news for the incidents it causes is no longer news, and everything seems to indicate that Microsoft has decided to maintain the bad practices around testing that it put in place for the previous version of the operating system at the time. On the other hand, NVIDIA also has its problems, but AMD hardware, both graphics and processors, seems to have been more affected by incidents.