Nvidia’s GPU drivers have been a catastrophe over the previous 4 months. It began when Nvidia launched its drivers for the RTX 50-series playing cards in January, and launched black display screen points, sport crashes, and common stability issues for brand new and current graphics playing cards. Now, one more new hotfix has emerged to repair much more points launched by Nvidia’s buggy drivers.
Nvidia GPU homeowners have been struggling for months with a wide range of points reported on Reddit and in Nvidia’s personal assist boards, with most individuals fixing their points by rolling again to the December 566.36 driver earlier than the RTX 50-series. These lucky sufficient to safe one in all Nvidia’s newest GPUs aren’t in a position to roll again to the previous drivers as they merely don’t assist the brand new RTX 50-series, so Nvidia has been issuing a sequence of updates to try to tackle the issues.
The 576.02 driver launch final week, which included a lot of bug and crash fixes, appeared like it might lastly remedy the problems which have plagued Nvidia’s driver releases over the previous few months, but it surely has made issues worse for some. Posters within the Nvidia boards have been reporting points with GPU monitoring utilities not reporting the proper GPU temperatures since putting in 576.02, so Nvidia was pressured to launch a hotfix driver yesterday to deal with this concern.
The most recent 576.15 hotfix additionally contains fixes for decrease idle GPU clock speeds for RTX 50-series homeowners, and a few fixes for sure video games flickering after updating to final week’s 576.02 driver. I might extremely advocate putting in this hotfix driver in the event you’re on an RTX 50-series GPU otherwise you recurrently set your PC to sleep mode and use GPU monitoring utilities like Afterburner to manage a customized fan curve based mostly on GPU temperatures.
Whereas this newest hotfix driver addresses some essential points, Nvidia discussion board posters are still reporting a lot of sport crashes, efficiency points, and stuttering when utilizing G-Sync in sure video games. Nvidia is currently tracking no less than 15 open points with its 576.02 driver that may hopefully be addressed with the subsequent official driver launch.
Nvidia has launched 4 hotfix drivers over the previous two months, which is a shocking quantity of hotfixes between the principle Home windows {Hardware} High quality Labs (WHQL) releases. It’s additionally shocking as a result of, for probably the most half, Nvidia’s GPU drivers have at all times been steady and higher than the AMD and Intel competitors at sport compatibility, efficiency, and crash-free gaming.