Last week, we covered the very strange occurrence of a bug in the latest Windows update. Yes, a bug in a Windows update, say it isn't so. Unfortunately, this one does incur our wrath of gamers more than most because it leads to some games becoming unresponsive. Games like Arc Raiders, Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, and The Finals. But we might have to look at our obsession with RGB lighting

When the issue first came to light, shortly after the release of KB5121003, the developer of two of those games came out with a theory. Embark Studios chalked the crashes up to a single driver, inpoutx64.sys, and noted you could disable the troublesome file through the Command Prompt.

As it turns out, that was spot on. Microsoft also thinks that inpoutx64.sys is the problem. Or, at the very least, something doesn't quite gel between inpoutx64.sys, the affected games, and the latest Windows update.

The KB5121003 update is seemingly the catalyst of the whole affair. Microsoft downplays it slightly in the wording of its ongoing investigation: "We are presently working to understand the relationship between these RGB components and the games which trigger this issue. We will provide an update when more information is available."

Anyways, Microsoft also notes what it currently believes is the actual cause of the issue, and it's pinning it mostly on RGB lighting.

"Ongoing investigation indicates that this issue is related to peripherals or internal device components which have RGB lighting features. Such devices may install drivers or code components with file names similar to inpoutx64.

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