Sometimes software updates are two steps forward and one step backwards, introducing just as many bugs as they fix. Fortunately, Nvidia has been quite timely with its latest GeForce driver hotfix, nipping crashes and sensor issues in the bud less than a week after the first reports emerged.
Nvidia GeForce Game Ready 576.02 driver was rather packed, ushering in support for RTX 5060 Ti, 19 new G-Sync Compatible displays, and fixing a range of issues including but not limited to Fortnite and Star Wars Outlaws crashes. Unfortunately, it also came with few hiccups of its own.
For those affected, the best-case scenario was that GPU temperature sensors showed incorrectly or refused to show at all across RTX 30, 40, and 50 Series models. The most common of these was readings wrongfully showing a consistent 25℃, even on the highest-end RTX 5090 graphics cards. This isn’t the most egregious in and of itself, but it does prevent third-party applications like MSI Afterburner from adjusting fan speeds.
The worst cases, however, involved intermittent black screens and crashes without apparent rhyme or reason. These didn’t seem to be game-specific like prior problems.
Fortunately, Nvidia has released a 576.15 hotfix less than a week after its core driver update, fixing flickers, stutters, and corruptions. You can see the full patch notes below:
- [RTX 50 series] Some games may display shadow flicker/corruption after updating to GRD 576.02 [5231537]
- Lumion 2024 crashes on GeForce RTX 50 series graphics card when entering render mode [5232345]
- GPU monitoring utilities may stop reporting the GPU temperature after PC wakes from sleep [5231307]
- [RTX 50 series] Some games may crash while compiling shaders after updating to GRD 576.02 [5230492]
- [GeForce RTX 50 series notebook] Resume from Modern Standy can result in black screen [5204385]
- [RTX 50 series] SteamVR may display random V-SYNC micro-stutters when using multiple displays [5152246]
- [RTX 50 series] Lower idle GPU clock speeds after updating to GRD 576.02 [5232414]
Currently, the update is only available for Windows 10 x64 / Windows 11 x64 since Microsoft’s operating systems are a couple of steps ahead. By proxy, Linux and FreeBSD haven’t yet reached the problematic driver to warrant the hotfix.
If you’re on either version of Windows, I wholeheartedly recommend you download the hotfix driver here. Should problems re-emerge, you can rollback to 572.83 using the manual driver selection.
