A string of driver hotfixes suggests Nvidia RTX 50 GPUs are having trouble keeping their software down

Latest update aims to hole 17 antithetic issues

Nvidia person released the latest successful an unusually predominant bid of GeForce operator hotfixes, with the immense bulk of identified issues affecting the newest RTX 50 graphics cards specifically. GeForce Hotfix Display Driver mentation 576.26 targets assorted crashing and flickering problems with, among others, Black Myth: Wukong, Forza Horizon 5, and Red Dead Redemption 2 – though it’s the increasing regularity of these spot jobs that’s much disquieting than immoderate peculiar lawsuit of crippled breakage.

While operator hotfixes person been uncommon during erstwhile GeForce generations, a caller flurry has seen them averaging astir 1 each 2 weeks, from the 572.24 hotfix for a Valorant startup clang connected the RTX 5080 to the achromatic surface scourge of 572.75, and present some the 576.15 and bumper-size 576.26 versions being deployed wrong the aforesaid day. Peering done their spot notes reveals that by acold the astir communal thread is the RTX 50 series, which is hardly a ringing endorsement of their bundle stability.

I should accidental that I haven’t experienced immoderate specified problems myself portion reviewing these cards, which performance-wise, scope from the beauteous decent to the enormously disappointing. Still, I americium but 1 hardware editor, and adjacent the Nvidia forum station announcing the latest hotfix leads into a raft of assemblage replies reporting assorted continuing problems. Driver mentation 576.02, the astir caller unchangeable driver, is repeatedly identified arsenic a breaking point, and with 2 hotfixes having present been sticky-plastered connected apical of it, the accusation carries immoderate weight.

It's existent that 'stable' drivers are faced with perchance meddlesome clip restraints, arsenic they’re usually released successful enactment of either cardinal caller games oregon a caller portion of hardware (the RTX 5060 Ti, successful 576.02’s case). Still, that’s been the lawsuit with GeForce drivers for donkeys’ ages, truthful can’t truly enarthrosis the blasted for the abrupt uptick successful problems and resultant hotfixes. In immoderate case, if you’ve been having hiccups with your ain GeForce GPU, springiness mentation 576.26 a download and anticipation you won’t request different 1 for a while. It’ll request to beryllium a manual installation, arsenic hotfixes aren’t released done the Nvidia App similar unchangeable drivers are.