Currently, Nvidia has been on the forefront of dangerous information. Other than melting and burning energy connector troubles, the corporate’s GPUs have additionally been plagued with different issues like lacking ROPs, and disabled 32-bit PhysX. And this is not accounting for all of the black screen-related driver and software program points that the corporate is regularly fixing with hotfixes.

Other than these points, it seems like Nvidia’s GPUs are someway not enjoying properly with the newest Home windows 11 Canary channel builds resulting from some form of battle with DirectX 9 because the D3D9 DLL file is crashing. Whereas Microsoft has not blamed Nvidia for this, from the person feedback who’re going through the issues, that is what appears to be the case.

What is occurring as a consequence is that numerous functions together with video games and recreation launchers, PowerPoint shows, browsers, and sure web sites, amongst others are failing to launch. Primarily, it’s affecting something that makes use of DirectX 9.

Folks discovered success by changing the D3D9 DLL recordsdata contained in the System32 and SysWOW64 system folders within the affected builds with ones from earlier builds. However earlier than doing that, it’s also important to disable the Nvidia GPU from the Gadget Supervisor.

Affected customers took to the Suggestions Hub to complain about this subject. A person Mauxx G on the thread wrote:

Properly, after attempting among the issues talked about right here, I’ve discovered some options

1. Disable Nvidia GPU (Protected) Go to machine supervisor and disable Nvidia (do not uninstall) The dangerous factor, video games will go dangerous efficiency
2. Substitute the libraries (insecure) First acquire administrator permissions to the next recordsdata PowerShell console in administrator mode takeown /f C:WindowsSystem32d3d9.dll takeown /f C:WindowsSysWOW64d3d9.dll Then change them with secure variations (I used those from construct 27788.1000 obtainable from [URL], they’re in [windows.iso

Microsoft perhaps initially thought it would not take too long to resolve it, but later the company’s engineer Jennifer G updated the response on the thread to add that the issue continues to persist:

Appreciate your patience – we understand the issue and are working on a fix. If needed, you may want to rollback the build

UPDATE: Unfortunately we’re still working on a fix, and you will continue to have this issue with 27808

As such, with the latest Canary channel build, 27808, Microsoft has added the bug to its list of known issues.

[NEW] We’re investigating a d3d9.dll crash which is inflicting a number of apps to fail to launch beginning with Construct 27802 for some Insiders.

Fortunately, that is an Insider Program bug and does not but have an effect on basic customers. We’ll replace this submit as soon as extra particulars can be found.