NVIDIA’s RTX 50 series has left a mark not only on users who purchased one of the five models currently available, but also on owners of other NVIDIA graphics cards. And not because of performance—rather, due to ongoing problems related to their drivers.
As has been noted on several occasions, drivers are critical to unlocking the full potential of a graphics card. When they malfunction, users can experience black or white screens, sudden system restarts, game crashes, or failure to resume from sleep mode. Since the launch of the RTX 5090 and 5080 in late January—the first two models of this generation—millions of users have reported such issues.
In an effort to address these complaints, NVIDIA released a driver update a few weeks ago, which was supposed to fix the errors reported since January. However, that update introduced new problems, prompting the company to release a follow-up patch shortly after. Still, issues remained.
Now, NVIDIA has rolled out a new patch featuring 10 specific fixes. This update builds on version 576.02, released on April 16, which had already addressed more than 40 issues affecting nearly every GPU the company released in the past five to six years.
Among the most notable improvements, the new update resolves screen flickering when using DisplayPort 2.1 at high refresh rates. It also fixes a bug that caused blank screens when connecting LG monitors with DisplayPort 2.1 and HDR (models 27GX790A, 45GX950A, 32GX870A, 40WT95UF, and 27G850A).
Performance issues in several popular games have also been resolved. In Black Myth: Wukong, the game would crash when Wukong transformed; Forza Horizon 5 experienced flickering lights at night; Forza Motorsport had issues with nighttime races; Red Dead Redemption 2 would crash when launched with DirectX 12; Horizon Forbidden West would freeze when loading a saved game; Dead Island 2 crashed after updating to version 576.02; and in Resident Evil 4 Remake, background textures flickered. With the exception of the Forza games—which affected older models as well—these issues were exclusive to the RTX 50 series.
Additionally, for users who skipped version 576.15—released shortly after 576.02—this new driver also incorporates its fixes: resolution of display driver issues when waking from sleep mode, elimination of random V-SYNC stutters with StreamVR, restored temperature monitoring functionality, GPU clock speed adjustments, and fixes for shader compilation crashes in some games.
