For a few days I’ve been having this annoying issue where all of my screens would suddenly blink for a second, and every single video player (be it youtube in browser or an external player) will PAUSE playback and video turns all black.
I can just click resume and it works again instantly, picture comes back, but that’s pretty annoying.

Eventually I noticed that every single time this happens, I get 4 errors in the Windows Event Viewer from Gaming Services.

3 of those are :

“NULL
Error: A non-existent device was specified.
Function: NULL
Source: (392)”

Which seem to contain nothing usable for troubleshooting.

The last one is :
“A449AE7E-493A-A998-7057-C66EEE2A08B6
Error: A non-existent device was specified.
Function: StorageDriveNotifier::HandleGameFltVolumeChangedCallback
Source: (481)”

But it seems I’m the first getting this “HandleGameFltVolumeChangedCallback” error! Or at least posting about it, cause I’m getting 0 hit on Google.

Seeing how it’s the gaming service and it’s about Storage Drive, I believe this might be a Gamepass related issue. Xbox Game Pass for PC creates a bunch of virtual hard drives “MSFT XVDD”.

But why is Windows accessing this hard drive when I’m not using the Xbox app at all, and why would it being removed stop video playback (and also make DWM bug sometime) ? No clue…

Does anyone have any idea?

This is on Windows 11 64 bits 22H2.