Microsoft just launched the Windows 10 Build 11102 for Insiders, and its features include a new Edge browser menu, bug fixes and an end to your gaming hobby/career.
In the latest 11102 build, Microsoft Edge gets a handy little window attached to the back and forward buttons of the browser. This allows users to locate the current page within the user's recent browsing history. Shortly, it's a navigation tool for browsing that Insiders requested and Microsoft, generously, obliged.
Something that Insiders did not ask for, but Microsoft offered in full measure, is a myriad of issues associated with the latest Windows 10 build. This applies particularly to PC game enthusiasts, the self-entitled "PC Master Race" who is about to have its Ultra gameplay greatly disturbed.
"[Microsoft] highly recommend[s] taking note of the known issues for this build, as there are issues that will impact your PC gaming experience," Gabe Aul, vice president, Engineering Systems Team at Microsoft says.
According to Microsoft, the following titles are especially vulnerable: Assassin's Creed, Fallout 4, Metal Gear Solid V, The Witcher 3 and Tomb Raider. People who enjoy any of these titles and have already installed Build 11102 for Windows 10 should hope that luck is on their side.
Some of the problems that one might encounter include crashes while choosing to go from windowed screen mode to full screen, crashes after modifying the in-game resolution or even crashes during a game's launch. The latter comes courtesy of Windows' graphics stack. No official fix for these severe mishaps exists at the time of writing, so gamers might want to either avoid the build or try Solitaire for a while.
Apart from the possibility of annoying gamers, the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 11102 could cause the wireless card to stop recognizing the OS, thus asking for a driver update. Other reported bugs involved crashes when using Magnifier and Narrator assistive technologies.
According to Microsoft's blog, users could encounter a WSClient.dll error dialog after they log in. The Redmond-based company says that a workaround exists for this issue: simply run Command Prompt with administrator rights and type schtasks /delete /TN "\Microsoft\Windows\WS\WSRefreshBannedAppsListTask" /F" without the bolded inverted commas.
Aul did point out that Insiders will get faster access to the latest builds, but the price for that is the lack of stability of such releases.
We look forward to seeing these issues resolved in the bigger update packs, as Microsoft has quite a track record of bugs followed by fixes.
