- Windows 11’s Cumulative Update in February 2025 has arrived
- It packs a number of couriers including the solution of an Auto HDR bug that messed colors and got games to go down
- Important sounds are also present and the cure for an ugly problem with webcams
Windows 11 has a new cumulative update and it brings some important fixes to bugs that have annoyed many people.
Bleeping computer discovered the release notes for the February 2025 update to Windows 11, which appeared yesterday and should be available on PCs now. This is Patch KB5051987 for Windows 11 24h2, but if you are still on 23h2, it’s KB5051989.
The update cures one of the (many) bugs that players have found seriously frustrating, where colors are messed up by the Auto HDR feature. This has now been resolved, just as the crashes in games reported because of this issue, too.
Another major solution here is for the error that killed the audio output from those who use a sound DAC (Digital-to-Analog Convert) with their PC, though this also affected other users (you were just more likely to run into the problem , if you use a DAC).
DAC or no DAC (I feel a games show idea that comes on) the error has been squeezed with the new update, just as another audio error that has caused a ‘this device cannot start’ the error to appear (even if It was a less common problem, and not one I’ve heard of before).
Finally, remember the problems of USB webcams where they were not discovered correctly? You can also kiss goodbye to these camera -onde as Microsoft tells us that this error (caused by the previous January 2025 cumulative update) is now a saga of the past.
Analysis: Fasting the holes where the errors come in …
You may remember that the Auto HDR -FIX arrived in the preview of updating for January (an optional affair at the end of last month), so the good news is that it has not caused any problems in the last test phases, and so can Now applied to Windows 11 PCs everywhere.
In addition, it is worth noting that the compatibility set on PCs that would have been affected by this error has now been lifted, so if your computer was prevented in Update soon.
Whether you want to make this leap yet, of course, is another question, as 24H2 has proven to be quite problematic with regard to different bugs that manifest themselves since the launch.
Hopefully, however, we are over the worst of all that and as we can see here, Microsoft is now working at a fair old pace to solve the various errors that have affected Windows 11 users who have moved to the latest version (as is now in the process of a wider rollout).
