Microsoft has confirmed a brand new concern affecting Home windows 24H2 programs and inflicting recreation audio to unexpectedly improve to full quantity when utilizing USB DAC sound programs.
As the corporate defined in a help doc revealed on Tuesday, this identified concern happens on Home windows 24H2 gaming programs the place affected players use a Inventive Sound BlasterX G6 USB digital audio converter (DAC) or connect after which instantly detach the exterior sound system from the system.
Customers may also expertise this concern after making their gaming system fall asleep after which manually waking it from sleep or after adjusting the amount of the exterior sound system and instantly detaching it.
“If you use an exterior USB digital audio converter (DAC) sound system, you may expertise the sound degree rising to 100-percent,” Microsoft stated.
“There are not any error messages or different figuring out components aside from the audio quantity is all of a sudden elevated to 100-percent.”
This bug is attributable to what Microsoft describes as a timing drawback within the AudioEndpointBuilder system service, which enumerates, initializes, and prompts the audio endpoints on Home windows programs.
The corporate says it is at present investigating the difficulty and dealing on a repair, with extra data to be supplied when accessible.
This week, Redmond additionally acknowledged one other bug stopping customers from altering the time zone within the Date & Time view of Home windows Settings if they do not have administrative privileges on the machine.
Nonetheless, these affected can work round it by trying to find and altering it from the Management Panel or by opening the corresponding window by operating ‘timedate.cpl’ from the Run dialog (launched by urgent the Home windows key + R keyboard shortcut).
“Microsoft is actively investigating the difficulty and can present a decision in an upcoming Home windows replace,” the corporate stated.
Final week, it additionally pulled the November 2024 Trade safety updates over mail supply points and mounted a number of bugs inflicting Home windows Server 2025 blue screens and set up points.