Recent Windows 10 Patch Brings Good, Bad Performance News For PC Gamers

A fix is on its way, but if you want to maximize performance, you may want to uninstall the patch if it’s already on your PC.

- Mark Hachman

Here’s a conundrum for PC gamers: A recent Windows 10 patch solves some of the Spectre mitigation issues, increasing performance—but a new, separate issue means that your GPU and mouse performance may be slower than normal.

The KB4482887 patch (go.pcworld. com/kb44), issued March 1, enables “Retpoline,” a technique for helping reduce the performance hit of the Spectre mitigations Microsoft previously rolled out. But WindowsLatest (go.pcworld.com/ wnlt) also noted a catch: One of the known issues with the patch involves graphics and mouse performance degradation on certain games.