NVIDIA just rolled out a fresh hotfix for its GeForce display drivers, aiming to tackle some irritating display glitches along with a newly discovered issue affecting GPU temperature readings.
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In a rather unusual move, NVIDIA seems to be on a hotfix spree for its drivers, which highlights the challenges they’ve faced in offering solid software support for their RTX 50 series graphics cards. To be honest, I’ve lost track of how many quick updates they’ve released, but here we go again with hotfix version 576.15. This latest update addresses a bunch of problems, including the notorious display crashes tied to the original v576.02 driver, as well as a pesky temperature sensor bug that was messing with the GPU’s voltage and clock performance.
Here’s a rundown of the issues this hotfix tackles:
– Shadow flickering or corruption showing up in some games on the RTX 50 series after updating to GRD 576.02 [5231537]
– Lumion 2024 crashing when entering render mode on GeForce RTX 50 series cards [5232345]
– GPU temperature readings getting lost after a PC wakes up from sleep [5231307]
– Some games crashing while shaders are being compiled on the RTX 50 series following the GRD 576.02 update [5230492]
– Black screen issues when waking GeForce RTX 50 series notebooks from Modern Standby [5204385]
– Random V-SYNC micro-stutters appearing in SteamVR when using multiple screens on the RTX 50 series [5152246]
– Lower idle GPU clock speeds after the GRD 576.02 update [5232414]
We’ve been aware of the persistent display hassles with NVIDIA’s RTX 50 drivers for a while now, but the new temperature sensor hiccup certainly caught us by surprise. It turns out, after your system wakes from sleep, the GPU temperature readings could go haywire, likely due to temporary power interruptions—an annoyance many users have experienced. Thankfully, the latest driver patch targets and resolves this particular bug, so you shouldn’t run into it anymore.
To see if this hotfix straightens out the display and temperature sensor issues for you, download the GeForce Hotfix display driver version 576.15 and give it a whirl.
