TECH NEWS – A new 576 driver has been released for GeForce Gsme Ready drivers (RTX drivers for workstation cards are not affected).

The new hotfix addresses display crashes and GPU temperature sensor issues in the drivers. This may be the first, and perhaps only, time that so many hotfixes have been released for a graphics card driver. It seems that “the greens” have indeed run into a lot of problems with software support for the new Blackwell architecture, so the GeForce RTX 5000 cards are not performing as well as one would expect. It’s also a little hard to follow what’s happening.

The RTX 5000 cards were fixed for flashes and crashes after installing the 576.02 driver (which we wrote about as achieving good performance). They had lower idle GPU clock speeds with the new driver, which has also been fixed (so will this increase their idle power consumption again?). Lumion 2024 crashed when entering render mode on the new graphics cards, which has also been fixed.

GPU monitoring utilities could stop reporting GPU temperatures after the PC resumes from sleep mode, this is also fixed in the hotfix. Also, on GeForce RTX 5000 cards, some games could crash when compiling shaders with driver 576.02, which has been fixed. If you have a GeForce RTX 5000 laptop, you should no longer experience a black screen after waking from sleep. Finally, there is a fix for VR users, as random V-Sync stutters in SteamVR could occur when using multiple displays on the RTX 5000.

Interestingly, all hotfixes are for RTX 5000 cards, which is a bit ridiculous since not everyone could or wanted to upgrade to the new generation. So the RTX 4000, 3000 cards have been forgotten by the company? Hopefully, Nvidia could fix the problems of the older cards, otherwise, the company will be seen in a slightly (?) bad light.

Source: WCCFTech, Nvidia