This security update resolves a vulnerability in Windows that could allow elevation of privilege if the Windows graphics component fails to correctly process bitmap conversions. An authenticated attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could elevate privileges on a targeted system.

If you are having issues installing or updating Gaming Services on your PC, or if you are noticing that the Xbox app for PC is launching with missing content, you may want to download and run the Gaming Services Repair Tool for PC.

The Windows Graphics, Imaging, and XPS Library contains the latest advancements in modern graphics technologies for gaming, multimedia, imaging and printing applications. It includes updates to DirectX to support hardware acceleration for 2D, 3D and text-based scenarios; DirectCompute for hardware accelerated parallel computing scenarios; and ...

Symptoms. In Windows 10, if you: Have a hybrid graphics system (an integrated GPU and a separate one) Run a game or app in windowed mode (instead of full-screen) Have Vsync enabled. You may see “tearing” (graphic corruption/distortion) in the upper-left corner of the game or app window.

Resolves vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Graphics Component on Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Skype for Business, Silverlight and Microsoft Lync.

You try to run graphics software or an application that has the hardware acceleration feature disabled. In other words, the application uses software rendering instead of GPU rendering. The application uses Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) for software rendering.

Symptoms. In Windows 10, if you: Have a hybrid graphics system (an integrated GPU and a separate one) Run a game or app in windowed mode (instead of full-screen) Have Vsync enabled. You may see “tearing” (graphic corruption/distortion) in the upper-left corner of the game or app window.

Resolves a vulnerability in Windows that could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted image file. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user.

You run the WinSAT prepop command to generate a Windows Experience Index score. You run sysprep to seal the image for deployment. After the OOBE (Out of Box Experience) phase, you may find the Windows Experience Index score is "1.0", and you also find the Graphics Subscore is "1.0".

Resolves vulnerabilities in the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted document or goes to an untrusted webpage that contains embedded TrueType or OpenType fonts.