Nvidia rushes out a GPU fix, blaming Windows 11's October update for sluggish performance in games

• Nvidia GPUs have been suffering since the Windows 11 October update
• The Microsoft patch meant some PC games ran slower than expected
• Nvidia has deployed an emergency hotfix to resolve these issues

Nvidia GPU owners who've been having problems with sluggishness affecting some games in the past month now have a fix for these performance woes in Windows 11.

Windows Latest reports that Nvidia just released a hotfix – outside of its normal stream of graphics driver updates – which resolves "lower performance" levels with some games after Windows 11's October patch (codenamed KB5066835).

Now, this is only happening with some games, and Nvidia is keeping things vague here, in terms of "lower performance" and exactly what that might mean – presumably slower frames rates, and less-than-smooth gaming as a result.