Nvidia’s GPU drivers are a mess

Nvidia’s GPU drivers person been a catastrophe implicit the past 4 months. It each started erstwhile Nvidia released its drivers for the RTX 50-series cards successful January, and introduced achromatic surface issues, crippled crashes, and wide stableness problems for caller and existing graphics cards. Now, yet different caller hotfix has emerged to hole adjacent much issues introduced by Nvidia’s buggy drivers.

Nvidia GPU owners person been struggling for months with a assortment of issues reported connected Reddit and successful Nvidia’s ain enactment forums, with astir radical fixing their issues by rolling backmost to the December 566.36 driver earlier the RTX 50-series. Those fortunate capable to unafraid 1 of Nvidia’s latest GPUs aren’t capable to rotation backmost to the aged drivers arsenic they simply don’t enactment the caller RTX 50-series, truthful Nvidia has been issuing a bid of updates to effort and code the problems.

The 576.02 operator merchandise past week, which included tons of bug and clang fixes, seemed similar it would yet lick the issues that person plagued Nvidia’s operator releases implicit the past fewer months, but it has made things worse for some. Posters successful the Nvidia forums person been reporting issues with GPU monitoring utilities not reporting the close GPU temperatures since installing 576.02, truthful Nvidia was forced to merchandise a hotfix operator yesterday to code this issue.

The latest 576.15 hotfix besides includes fixes for little idle GPU timepiece speeds for RTX 50-series owners, and immoderate fixes for definite games flickering aft updating to past week’s 576.02 driver. I would highly urge installing this hotfix operator if you’re connected an RTX 50-series GPU oregon you regularly acceptable your PC to slumber mode and usage GPU monitoring utilities similar Afterburner to power a customized instrumentality curve based connected GPU temperatures.

While this latest hotfix operator addresses immoderate important issues, Nvidia forum posters are still reporting tons of crippled crashes, show issues, and stuttering erstwhile utilizing G-Sync successful definite games. Nvidia is presently tracking astatine slightest 15 unfastened issues with its 576.02 operator that volition hopefully beryllium addressed with the adjacent authoritative operator release.

Nvidia has released 4 hotfix drivers implicit the past 2 months, which is simply a astonishing magnitude of hotfixes betwixt the main Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) releases. It’s besides astonishing because, for the astir part, Nvidia’s GPU drivers person ever been unchangeable and amended than the AMD and Intel contention astatine crippled compatibility, performance, and crash-free gaming.

Nvidia’s operator issues travel aft a turbulent motorboat of the RTX 50-series cards. Some RTX 5090 powerfulness cables have been melting, Nvidia had to admit that immoderate of its caller GPUs had a “rare” manufacturing contented that meant they were missing render units, and immoderate of Nvidia’s selling claims person been questionable. The RTX 50-series cards person besides been difficult to find successful stock astatine retail prices, leaving galore PC gamers frustrated by Nvidia’s latest GPU launch.