Microsoft admits Windows 11 is crashing with some GPUs and says it’s fixed ‘Black Screen of Death’ error — but has the damage already been done?

• Windows 11 has been suffering with a bug that causes black-screen crashes for gamers with a ‘security check failure’ error
• Microsoft has admitted to the glitch, and tells us that it’s now fixed
• The fix is in the most recent February update for Windows 11, alongside one for problems with connecting to certain Wi-Fi networks

Microsoft has confirmed that some Windows 11 gamers have been suffering from a bug that causes their PC to completely lock up — but the good news is that the February update packs a cure for this.

Windows Latest reports that the bug causes the dreaded Black Screen of Death (BSOD – which used to be blue, of course), whereby the system requires a restart. The telltale sign of this glitch is that the screen itself carries a ‘Kernel Security Check Failure’ error message.

The tech site notes that testers have also been running into this problem of late (although they get green-colored error screens), as well as those running the full version of Windows 11 — and…