NVIDIA has rolled out a fresh hotfix targeting the pesky display crashes and a new glitch affecting GPU temperatures on their GeForce drivers.
NVIDIA’s New Hotfix Tries to Tackle Annoying Display Crashes
It feels like this is one of the rare instances where we’re seeing a bunch of hotfixes being rolled out for a single driver. It seems NVIDIA hit a snag in offering seamless software support for their RTX 50 series graphics cards. Honestly, I’ve lost track of the number of hotfixes they’ve issued, but here we are with yet another one—hotfix v576.15. This update aims to sort out a host of issues, like the display crashes brought by the original v576.02 driver and a pesky temperature sensor bug impacting GPU voltages and clock speeds.
Here’s what this hotfix tackles:
- [RTX 50 series] Shadow flicker or corruption in some games after updating to GRD 576.02 [5231537]
- Lumion 2024 crashes when entering render mode on GeForce RTX 50 series cards [5232345]
- GPU monitoring tools may stop showing GPU temperature after the PC wakes from sleep [5231307]
- [RTX 50 series] Crashes in some games during shader compilation after update to GRD 576.02 [5230492]
- [GeForce RTX 50 series notebook] Resume from Modern Standby may lead to black screens [5204385]
- [RTX 50 series] SteamVR may exhibit random V-SYNC micro-stutters with multi-display setups [5152246]
- [RTX 50 series] Lower idle GPU clock speeds post-GRD 576.02 update [5232414]
The display problems with the RTX 50 drivers weren’t much of a secret, but this new temperature sensor issue definitely stirred things up. Apparently, the GPU temperature readings were going haywire after the system came back from sleep. Users found this quirk pretty unsettling. Fortunately, the new hotfix should put these troubles to bed, sparing users from any more headaches—at least for now.
If you’re dealing with any of these issues, you can grab the GeForce Hotfix display driver version 576.15 and see if it smooths things out, tackling display crashes or temperature sensor glitches.
