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Windows 11's new update reportedly makes some PCs 'super slow' and stops Valorant loading

Some Valorant players can't get into the game thanks to a conflict with the Vanguard anti-cheat, and the slowdown issues here sound nightmarish.

Windows 11's update for August is reportedly slowing down some PCs, and in other cases it's failing to install, plus for gamers it's interfering with Valorant's anti-cheat system. There are a few other posters echoing this general sentiment, and as mentioned at the outset, KB5041585 also seems to mess up Vanguard, Valorant's anti-cheat system, at least for some players who are getting the following error: "A driver cannot load on this device." On the one hand, you want the latest security patches from the update, but on the other, some of the performance-related issues sound pretty nasty, which makes it tempting to wait at least a little bit to see if Microsoft is going to smooth things over.

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