Mar 7, 2019
Latest fix for Windows 10 October 2018 Update has unfortunate side-effects
A new cumulative update for the latest version of Windows 10 is playing havoc with gaming performance on some users’ PCs, at least going by reports online.
The patch in question is KB4482887 for Windows 10 October 2018 Update, which was very recently unleashed to deliver a bunch of fixes, including enabling ‘Retpoline’ which should improve the performance of PCs by mitigating any sluggishness caused by the Spectre variant 2 fix.
