NVIDIA Releases Another Hotfix for the Game Ready Driver 576.02 Update

NVIDIA is bigger, bolder, and wealthier than ever. Yet it can't look to hole its buggy RTX 50-series GPU drivers. The institution conscionable announced yet different hotfix (576.26) for the caller Game Ready Driver 576.02 update—unfortunately, those who person installed this hotfix inactive person a batch of complaints.

Unlike NVIDIA's mainline Game Ready Driver updates, hotfixes bash not person Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) investigating oregon certification. They are, by nature, "beta" updates; they're unstable. You're lone expected to download a hotfix if you're experiencing a occupation that's listed successful NVIDIA's changelog, and adjacent then, you're taking connected a spot of a risk.

This is the archetypal clip I've seen 2 hotfixes for a azygous NVIDIA operator version—maybe it's happened successful the past, but successful immoderate case, it's highly unusual. What's worse, this is the sixth hotfix since the RTX 50-series launch. Hotfixes utilized to beryllium reasonably uncommon, yet they practically specify this procreation of GPUs.

"Since we person truthful galore changes being checked in, we usually effort to align operator releases with important crippled oregon merchandise releases. This process has served america beauteous good implicit the years but it has 1 important weakness. Sometimes a alteration that is important to galore users mightiness extremity up sitting and waiting until we are capable to merchandise the driver."

"To beryllium sure, these Hotfix drivers are beta, optional and provided as-is. They are tally done a overmuch abbreviated QA process. The sole crushed they beryllium is to get fixes retired to you much quickly. The safest enactment is to hold for the adjacent WHQL certified driver. But we cognize that galore of you are consenting to effort these out. As a result, we lone supply NVIDIA Hotfix drivers done our NVIDIA Customer Care enactment site." - NVIDIA

According to the release notes, this hotfix resolves a DisplayPort 2.1 HDR incompatibility, a achromatic surface bug, V-SYNC stuttering erstwhile utilizing aggregate monitors, a GPU monitoring bug, and random flickering successful immoderate games. It besides addresses freezing, crashing, and "corruption" successful AAA titles similar Black Myth: Wukong, Read Dead Redemption 2, Forza Motorsport, and Horizon Forbidden West.

Some commentators connected the NVIDIA GeForce forums accidental that this hotfix resolved immoderate problems they were experiencing, which is great. Unfortunately, astir of the comments are negative—NVIDIA ignored immoderate games (Monster Hunter Wilds appears to beryllium the premier example), determination are inactive problems with G-Sync and V-Sync, and immoderate gamers accidental that the caller hotfix re-introduced bugs that were resolved successful the erstwhile hotfix.

To NVIDIA's credit, this is simply a precise ambitious update. It aims to resoluteness a ample chuck of the problems that gamers are experiencing with their 50-series GPUs. But these problems shouldn't person existed successful the archetypal place. The Game Ready Driver 576.02 update should've been unchangeable and reliable.

Now's a bully clip to reiterate thing that I mentioned earlier—NVIDIA is presently astatine the highest of its wealth, power, and influence. This company, which utilized to beryllium comparatively chartless extracurricular of gaming, is present the world's starring AI hardware manufacturer. It's valued astatine $2 trillion. It adjacent has immoderate sway implicit major governmental decisions. I recognize that AI is NVIDIA's apical precedence close now, but there's truly nary excuse for GPU operator bugs oregon compatibility issues.

If you're experiencing immoderate of the problems listed successful the 576.26 hotfix announcement, spell up and springiness the hotfix a try. You tin ever rotation backmost if it turns retired to beryllium a dud. Those who aren't experiencing immoderate problems (or those who conscionable don't consciousness similar messing with this stuff) should hold for the adjacent large operator version.

Source: NVIDIA via TechRadar