Yesterday, Microsoft released a patch to this month’s Win8.1 patches, which appears to solve the crashing problem with machines running both PIC and A
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Microsoft release fix for bug that crashes Win8.1 machines running both PIC and APIC controllers
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Tags: APIC KB 4077561 PIC Windows 8.1
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Noel Carboni
AskWoody_MVPJanuary 25, 2018 at 10:56 am #162097Thank you for thinking of Windows 8.1 users.
Believe it or not, though, I *still* haven’t been able to get hard info on what kinds of performance impacts the patches actually have on systems that do real things, other than some gaming (and even gaming impact stats are remarkably scarce).
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