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A memory leak can cause an increase in memory usage and performance run-time, and can negatively impact the user experience. [4] Eventually, in the worst case, too much of the available memory may become allocated and all or part of the system or device stops working correctly, the application fails, or the system slows down vastly due to ...
On 19 July at 04:09 UTC, CrowdStrike distributed a faulty configuration update for its Falcon sensor software running on Windows PCs and servers. A modification to a configuration file which was responsible for screening named pipes, Channel File 291, caused an out-of-bounds memory read [14] in the Windows sensor client that resulted in an invalid page fault.
The problem affected systems running Windows 10 and Windows 11 running the CrowdStrike Falcon software. [18] [15] Most personal Windows PCs were unaffected, as CrowdStrike's software is primarily used by organizations. [18] The CrowdStrike software did not provide a way for subscribers to delay the installation of its content files. [19]
Windows 10 October 2018 Update (Version 1809) Includes WDDM 2.5. [52] Updates to Display driver development in Windows 10, version 1809 include the following features: [53] Shader Model 6.3, adding support for DirectX12 Raytracing (DXR). [54] Raytracing, in order to support hardware-accelerated raytracing in Direct3D 12.
Unsuited video card (graphics card) drivers. Drivers that have values that the graphics card is not suited with. Overclocking beyond the capabilities of the particular video card. Software bugs in the application or operating system. The differing cases of visual artifacting can also differ between scheduled task(s).
On the other hand, if there is a problem with a dedicated graphics card, it can be replaced by installing another. Drivers [5] for the hardware are installed through software downloaded or provided by the manufacturer. Each brand of graphics hardware has its own drivers that are required for the hardware to run appropriately.
Black Friday tends to cause a bit of chaos every year. Especially because it’s not so much a single day of good deals as a constantly expanding period of non-stop sales (and annoying ads).
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditionally handled by the central processing unit (CPU).