Windows 11’s 23H2 update has been out for a little while now, but some users have reported a noticeable drop in gaming performance since installation, which seems somewhat fitting for an update released on Halloween. If you’ve yet to install it, the good news is that Microsoft has currently placed the update on compatibility hold for a different issue which hopefully means both problems might be fixed by the time it becomes available again. 

For those of you experiencing this issue and don’t want to rollback to a previous version however, there is a supposed fix. The bad news is, it’s a little complicated.

Via HotHardware, Reddit user BNSoul reported that their system slowed down in benchmarks by around 5-8% with the update installed, and their games were also affected by random stuttering that was fixed by rolling back to the previous update version, 22H2.  

After contacting Microsoft they were given a set of instructions that supposedly fixed their curr…