Random compelled restarts whereas gaming started instantly after working Windows Update on 5/17/26

My PC has been rock strong secure with none points for over a 12 months working Windows 11 Pro. After working Windows Update a number of days in the past (5/17/26), I’m now experiencing seemingly random compelled full restarts the place the machine fully crashes and reboots, however these solely appear to happen whereas I’m gaming. I’ve run the machine for hours for media playback and net searching with none restart, however I appear to get a restart inside 20 minutes or in order quickly as I begin gaming. I’m not seeing any error messages on the time of crash. It merely restarts the PC and goes via regular boot course of.

I imagine KB5087051 and KB5089549 have been the 2 updates put in. I’ve particularly seen documentation of crashing points associated to KB5087051, although each are documented as problematic.

I initially tried updating my GPU driver. This was outdated as a result of nVidia creating points with 40-series playing cards with newer drivers and each recreation I play has been positive up till this Windows Update set up. Updating the GPU driver resulted in no enchancment, as I nonetheless skilled random compelled restarts whereas gaming.

I’ve since uninstalled each of these updates, however the situation persists. This has eradicated my confidence in putting in Windows updates, because it has rendered my PC fully ineffective for gaming, because it stands.

I respect any troubleshooting measures or different strategies to treatment this. I’m on the sting of dumping all my recordsdata to an exterior drive and going scorched earth on the OS for a recent begin… 😀