- The Windows 10 playbar would have been struck by a nasty bug
- The game bar crashes when you try to access its options
- For those who have Ryzen 3D V-Cache processors, this means that they cannot configure them properly for the best game performance
The players running Windows 10 with a high-end V-Cache AMD Ryzen V-Cache processor suffer in the hands of an apparent bug that spoils the game bar and hinders these chips accordingly.
PC Game German PC game equipment reports (PCGH) German (via Neowin) that there is a problem with Windows 10 by which the game bar – a superposition that carries a lot of useful game parameters – is blocked when you access the options to configure the Ryzen processors mentioned correctly with a given game.
The high -end Ryzen X3D chips with 12 or 16 cores (such as the Ryzen 9900x3d or 9950x3d) have two chiplets, only one of which has the V 3D cache on the top (which increases the play performance). So, to ensure that these PC games run with the fastest possible image frequencies, it is necessary to report them manually as a game (check “ Remember that it is a game ”) in said options.
If the game bar crashes when you try to access the options, of course, you cannot do it, and therefore, those who meet this bug make their games work by optimage on these particular chips.
Note that these are only X3D models of 12 and 16 cores – the 8 -core versions of 3D V -Cache processors are good, because they do not have two chiplets, and the cache applies to all their nuclei (and obviously other Ryzen processors do not have this playing cache, anyway). Note further than the game bar itself works well; It is simply a question of clicking on the options which cause an accident.
A PCGH publisher says they were struck by this bug – even reinstall Windows 10 did not help as a possible (drastic) remedy – and other players of the website forum also reported the same experience.
In particular, these were people who did not perform Windows 10 Home, but Windows 10 Pro or a business version (which some PC lovers use for the longer support period).
However, Neowin, who has taken up this report, also says that he could reproduce the problem, although he does not specify the version of Windows 10 in this case. (And given that, I imagine that it is not at home – as they would have said – but Windows 10 pro probably).
Analysis: murmur on “sabotage”
Okay, these are only scattered reports at the moment, and it seems that we cannot confirm that Windows 10 Home is not affected. This is a niche problem, then – specific to the Ryzen X3D CPU heavy goods vehicles and Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise versions – but there are enough reports to be worrying.
Is this just a temporary problem that has slipped with a recent version of the game bar, the one Microsoft will burst? Perhaps, but we have not even confirmed the bug yet, so we have ahead of ourselves.
Anyway, it is more fuel for fire for those who suggest, without proof, that Microsoft discreetly sabotes Windows 10 as its end of life approaches, in order to cajolate these pure and hard that stick to the old operating system to switch to Windows 11 (this also presents to these recent extortion technology.
I do not think that no kind of “sabotage” is in progress here, but at the same time, with Windows 10 on the point of slipping in non -record in October 2025, there are certainly fewer reasons for Microsoft to keep the operating system entirely in shape for users – and less impulse in general to investigate more niche problems like this bar with a bar with a bar.
For the moment, we will just have to look at this space – and, obviously, this is not a problem on Windows 11, in case you have not already supposed.
