Microsoft has confirmed that D3D9 breaks and causes various apps to not start in some of the newest Windows 11 Canary builds. Nvidia GPUs may be somehow responsible.
Lately, Nvidia has been at the forefront of bad news. Aside from melting and burning power connector troubles, the company’s GPUs have also been plagued with other problems like missing ROPs, and disabled 32-bit PhysX. And this isn’t accounting for all the black screen-related driver and software issues that the company is continually fixing with hotfixes.
Aside from those issues, it looks like Nvidia’s GPUs are somehow not playing nicely with the latest Windows 11 Canary channel builds due to some sort of conflict with DirectX 9 as the D3D9 DLL file is crashing. While Microsoft has not blamed Nvidia for this, from the user comments who are facing the problems, this is what seems to be the case.
What is happening as a consequence is that various applications including games and game launchers, PowerPoint presentations, browsers, and certain websites, among others are failing to launch.
