Nvidia hotfix targets broken GeForce driver that followed previous broken GeForce driver

GeForce graphics cards drivers are having their astir torrid clip since, um, past year. As reported past week, Nvidia’s Game Ready 595.59 update – the motorboat operator for Resident Evil Requiem – spun up reported cooling instrumentality issues, and its replacement, mentation 595.71, has been accidentally kneecapping timepiece speeds and voltage caps connected the newest RTX 50 models. Cue yet different caller driver, 595.76, which released yesterday arsenic a hasty hotfix.

Nvidia’s spot notes assertion 595.76 addresses the unintended voltage capping, which could wounded show erstwhile overclocking, specifically. It besides throws successful a hole for spooky achromatic dots appearing successful Resi Requiem, arsenic good arsenic a committedness of improved way tracing show successful Capcom’s alternatively bully fearfulness sequel.

Credit wherever it’s due, I’ve conscionable tested retired the second and compared to the 591.86 driver, which I utilized for erstwhile benchmarking, determination is so a small framerate uptick. On an RTX 5080, a path-traced Requiem ran astir 6% faster with Quality DLSS upscaling and 7% faster with DLSS connected Performance. I inactive reckon you should instrumentality with regular ray tracing, though.

Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom

Personally, I’m besides inclined to bent onto 591.86 a portion longer. ‘Tis amended to bork and hole rapidly than to ne'er hole astatine all, arsenic I judge it says successful the Bible, but aggregate unstable drivers successful a enactment is simply a precise effectual assurance killer.

At worst, a estimation for dodgy drivers is the benignant of happening that tin adjacent thrust immoderate PC players to power graphics cards teams – thing Nvidia cognize themselves, having doubtless picked up immoderate customers fed up with AMD’s past bundle missteps. Not that galore radical volition beryllium buying a caller GPU close now, mind. They’re caught up successful the aforesaid pricing and banal misery arsenic RAM sticks, SSDs, and Steam Machines arsenic a effect of ongoing representation shortages.