- According to reports, the Windows 10 game bar has been beaten with an unpleasant error
- The game bar is blocked when you try to access your options
- For those with CPU Ryzen 3D V-Cache, this means that they cannot configure them correctly for the best game performance
The players who run Windows 10 with an AMD Ryzen 3D V-Cache processor are suffering at the hands of an apparent insect that gets into the game bar and hinders these chips as a result.
PC games hardware reports from the German Technology Site (PCGH) (through Neowin) that there is a Windows 10 problem by which the game bar, a superposition that has a lot of useful settings related to the game, is blocking when you access the options to configure the Ryzen CPUs mentioned correctly with any given game.
The Ryzen X3D chips of the upper end with 12 or 16 nuclei (such as the Ryzen 9900x3D or 9950x3D) have two chiplets, only one of which has the 3D V-Cache at the top (which increases the performance of the game). Therefore, to ensure that these PC games execute with the fastest possible frame speeds, it is necessary to score them manually as a game (ticking ‘remember that this is a game’) in these options.
If the game bar is blocked when trying to access the options, obviously, you cannot do this and, therefore, those who find this error are having their games running suboptimally in these particular chips.
Keep in mind that they are only the X3D models of 12 and 16 nuclei: the 8-core versions of the 3D V-Cache CPUs are fine, since they do not have two chiplets, and the cache is applied to all its nuclei (and obviously other Ryzen processors do not have any of this cache that increases the game, anyway). Keep in mind that the game bar itself works well; It is just clicking on the options that make a block occur.
A PCGH editor states that they were beaten by this error, even reinstalling Windows 10 did not help as a possible cure (drastic), and other players in the website forum also reported the same experience.
In particular, these were people who did not execute Windows 10 Home, but Windows 10 Pro or a business version (which some PC enthusiasts are using for the longest support period).
However, Neowin, who collected this report, also says that the problem could reproduce, although it does not specify which version of Windows 10 was running in this case. (And given that, I imagine that he is not at home, as they would have said, but Windows 10 pro more likely).
ANALYSIS: whisper on ‘sabotage’
Okay, these are only dispersed reports at this time, and it seems that we cannot confirm that Windows 10 Home is not affected. This is a niche problem, then, specific to the CPU Ryzen X3D of heavyweight and the Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise versions, but there are enough reports to be worrying.
Is it just a temporary failure that crawled with a recent version of the game bar, one that Microsoft will come out? Possibly, but we have not even confirmed the error yet, so we are anticipating ourselves.
Whatever the case, it is more fuel for the fire for those who suggest, without evidence, that Microsoft in some way is silently sabotaging Windows 10 as their end of life approaches, in an effort to engage those academos who stay with the oldest operating system to update Windows 11 (this is also also those recent accusations of technological extortion, you can also remember).
I do not believe that any type of ‘sabotage’ is underway here, but at the same time, with Windows 10 about to slide in irrelevance in October 2025, there are certainly less reasons for Microsoft to worry about maintaining the operating system completely in form for all users, and less impulse in general to investigate more niche problems like this apparent error of the game bar.
For now, we will only have to see this space, and, obviously, this is not a problem in Windows 11, in case you do not guess that.
