Why do I constantly encounter broken "ads" that lock up my game when playing any of the...

I am a retired software developer. The problem acts like an unitialized variable that is causing a timer to fire unexpectedly. C'mon, guys. Fix this!

No such issues here on win10 or win11

Start off by updating both bios and drivers from Asus support, there maybe a shortcut on your system to their update utility

Then run disk clean up and

the sfc/dism process

Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files - Microsoft Support

Why did this begin to happen suddenly several weeks ago with no changes to any installed software on my computer? The only changes were the ads that were launched. The problem doesn't appear with all ads. And it seemed to happen less frequently for a while but has begun to happen more frequently again. During the lull, it appeared that changes were made to not simply keep replaying the same ad each time one retried but changed to another one, making the problem a little more tolerable. This is Microsoft's problem and they either don't care or don't know how to fix it. I think they need to hire software engineers, not pimple-faced teen amateurs to do the ad programming.

I'm seeing the same thing. It seems to be tied to the ads, when there are ads they just play and the game continues. But no ad and it just locks up and stops, but the game play clock continues which will add up to HUGE time, when the actual game play time
is only an hour or so.

The patch is utterly broken and will destroy your gaming experience, especially when you start encountering dragons and it hard locks your console when they glitch. Stay offline, and stay at 1.1 for now until Bethesda rolls back this epic screwup.