Author: Chris Hoffman / Source: How-To Geek
Windows 10’s April 2019 Update contains a change that causes some PC games to crash Windows with a blue screen of death. Not all games have fixed the problem, but Microsoft has confirmed it’s releasing the update anyway.
Okay, let’s be fair here: Most affected PC games have fixed the problem and won’t freeze your system.
But some will, and we don’t know which. This change feels like a betrayal of Microsoft’s commitment to backward compatibility. It’s especially galling considering Windows 10 users have no way to opt out of these updates if they play an affected game.Why Fortnite (and More) Started Crashing Windows
In development builds of Windows 10’s April 2019 Update—also known as 19H1—some anti-cheat programs required by games cause Windows to crash with a green screen of death, also known as a GSOD. Green screens of death are just how traditional blue screens of death (BSODs) appear on Insider builds, so you will see a blue screen of death if you encounter this bug once Windows 10’s April 2019 Update is stable.
The most popular software affected was the BattlEye anti-cheat software used in Fortnite, which caused GSODs and made Fortnite unplayable on development builds of Windows 10. It’s not just that the game was unplayable—when you launched Fortnite, Windows would freeze.
To protect Windows Insiders from system freezes, Microsoft put an “upgrade block” in place that prevented Windows Insiders with games like Fortnite installed from installing the latest operating system builds.
On March 28, Microsoft…
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