NVIDIA has once again rolled out a hotfix for its GeForce display driver, in an effort to tackle ongoing display glitches and a newly discovered issue affecting GPU temperature readings.
In what feels like an unprecedented series of updates, NVIDIA is grappling with software support challenges for its RTX 50 series graphics cards. With this latest release, the v576.15 hotfix driver, they aim to rectify several problems that arose with the original v576.02 driver. Users had reported frequent display crashes and a quirky bug affecting temperature sensors, which in turn disrupted GPU voltages and clock speeds.
Here’s what this hotfix targets:
– On the RTX 50 series, some games were experiencing shadow flickering or corruption after users upgraded to GRD 576.02 [5231537].
– Lumion 2024 would crash when GeForce RTX 50 series cards entered render mode [5232345].
– After waking a PC from sleep, GPU monitoring tools weren’t properly capturing the GPU temperature [5231307].
– Post updating to GRD 576.02, certain games would crash during shader compilation on the RTX 50 series [5230492].
– For those using GeForce RTX 50 series notebooks, resuming from Modern Standby could lead to a black screen [5204385].
– When utilizing multiple displays, SteamVR might show random V-SYNC micro-stutters on the RTX 50 series [5152246].
– Users noticed that idle GPU clock speeds dropped following the GRD 576.02 update [5232414].
For quite some time, we’ve been aware of the issues plaguing the RTX 50 drivers, but this new temperature sensor bug was a fresh headache. It seemed that post-sleep, the GPU temperature sensor wasn’t functioning correctly, leading to inaccurate temperature readings. Needless to say, this was problematic for many users. Thankfully, the latest hotfix driver claims to resolve this, providing some much-needed relief for consumers.
If you’re affected, you can grab the GeForce Hotfix display driver version 576.15. Give it a try, and see if it resolves any display crashes or temperature sensor troubles you might have been dealing with.
