Microsoft fixes Floor Professional X cameras that stopped working

Microsoft has issued a short lived repair for Floor Professional X tablets after cameras on the gadget stopped working final week. Points with cameras on some Arm-based units, together with the Floor Professional X, began on Might twenty third, with house owners reporting they couldn’t use their built-in webcams in apps like Zoom and Microsoft Groups.

“Microsoft is deploying a crucial troubleshooter to mitigate this difficulty on most affected Home windows units,” reads a assist word from Microsoft late on Friday. “This workaround may disable some options of the digicam or decrease the picture high quality however ought to permit the digicam to operate till the difficulty is resolved by the gadget producer with an up to date digicam driver.”

Qualcomm’s digicam driver for these explicit units seems to be defective, ensuing within the digicam refusing to work after the system date hits Might twenty third, 2023. Floor Professional X house owners found final week that they may simply roll the system date again to Might twenty second and the digicam instantly began working once more. As soon as an up to date driver is launched then “full digicam performance” will likely be restored, in keeping with Microsoft.