Microsoft has launched an emergency Home windows 11 24H2 replace to handle an incompatibility subject triggering restarts with blue display of demise (BSOD) errors on programs with Simple Anti-Cheat.
The out-of-band replace (KB5063060) is a revised model of the Home windows 11 KB5060842 cumulative replace launched throughout this month’s Patch Tuesday after many purchasers reported experiencing system reboots and IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSODs tied to ntoskrnl.exe or EasyAntiCheat_EOS.exe crashing on computer systems working varied video games, together with Fortnite.
Microsoft stated on Tuesday that the emergency replace addressed a compatibility subject and rolled out to “a restricted set of those gadgets” working Home windows 11, model 24H2.
Nonetheless, the corporate did not initially share what {hardware} or software program configurations had been affected and what influence KB5060842 had after being put in on incompatible PCs.
In the future later, Redmond revealed that the problems solely impacted gadgets working Simple Anti-Cheat, a massively widespread anti-cheating service put in with tons of of multiplayer video games (together with Apex Legends, Warfare Thunder, Lifeless by Daylight, ELDEN RING, Rust, Squad, NBA 2K25, and plenty of others) to forestall dishonest whereas enjoying on-line.
“This replace addresses an incompatibility subject the place Home windows would possibly restart unexpectedly when opening video games that use the Simple Anti-Cheat service,” Microsoft stated.
“This replace downloads and installs mechanically from Home windows Replace and Microsoft Replace on gadgets with Simple Anti-Cheat put in and on gadgets that haven’t put in KB506842 but,” it added.
If you cannot set up the KB5063060 out-of-band cumulative replace by way of Home windows Replace, you may set up it manually on x64 and arm64 programs after downloading it from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.
Microsoft additionally positioned a compatibility maintain in October to block Home windows 24H2 upgrades on Intel Alder Lake+ and vPro programs due to recognized points inflicting Simple Anti-Cheat blue screens with “MEMORY_MANAGEMENT” errors.
On Tuesday, Redmond launched safety updates (KB5060842 and KB5060999) for 66 vulnerabilities in Home windows 11, together with a publicly disclosed Home windows SMB privilege escalation flaw (CVE-2025-33073) and an actively exploited Net Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) zero-day (CVE-2025-33053).
The July 2025 Patch Tuesday Home windows updates addressed ten essential vulnerabilities, eight permitting attackers to achieve distant code execution on unpatched gadgets, and the opposite two enabling them to escalate privileges.
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