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New Nvidia drivers

KickAssCop said:
I went back to pre-50 series drivers. Everything is fine again. Except the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark crashing but I don't care about that. Uninstalled already.
These drivers are so bad not sure what it will take for nvidia to fix their crap.
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Enable the swap file completely windows stock, not altered and it should work better. Even with alot of ram this game doesn't like the swap file changed or disabled.
 
ShuttleLuv said:
Enable the swap file completely windows stock, not altered and it should work better. Even with alot of ram this game doesn't like the swap file changed or disabled.
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That's long been true and not just for Windows. OSes just like having swap space, even with lots of RAM. For Windows with an SSD you should always just leave it to manage its own pagefile. Even if you have 512GB of RAM, it'll still want to make use of it.
 
I'm one of those folks that rarely if ever has "issues" when folks complain about a driver/updat etc, but this Nvidia update and my 3080 is black screen dying randomly and during sleep too. Rolled back.
 
I generally don't have issues, but I feel like the last few updates I've had to DDU, otherwise I get weird issues. Nvidia's driver team be fucking up lately.
 
I ran the 570.20 ones on the lappy..... No blue screen. Yet.

I may timidly update the others when I get home.
 
What the heck is going on with Nvidia? I just tried to the new 572.70 and any sort of CUDA operation using 3DSMax instantly crashes the app. Rolling back to the 566 series of drivers has fixed the random black screens, and also resolved the 3DSMax errors when running CUDA. Could there also be a chance that these new drivers expose some instability elsewhere in a users system? I did a full Memtest run as well as Prime95 torture test and everything otherwise seems stable. When running these latest 572 drivers I am noticing general system stability problems and other application issues like mentioned above.
 
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572.75 Hotfix is out there more fixes to black screen issues. Turn your PC and admire the Black Screen.
 
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I was able to install the 572.70 drivers from 3/5 and they have been great so far on my 3080. This is on windows 10. No black screen issues.
 
Comixbooks said:
572.75 Hotfix is out there more fixes to black screen issues. Yurn your PC and admire the Black Screen.
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how many hotfixes does it take to change a lightbulb?...seems like their 4th hotfix for the black screen issues
 
Just updated to the latest nVidia drivers on my RTX 3070 yesterday and spent about 10 hours playing Cyberpunk, The Outer Worlds and Far Cry 6. So far no issues at all. Hopefully this is all fixed.
 
Is HDR + VRR via HDMI already fixed without handshake issues when your framerate drops? *edit* The answer is no. :facepalm:
 
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My latest issue is that I seemingly can't disable VRR/GSync anymore. I uncheck the box, hit Apply, the screen flashes and I hear the Windows "unplug" sound twice, then it just goes back to being enabled again. I assume this is some sort of driver bug...?

EDIT: Yet another driver reinstall seems to have fixed it for now.
 
Man, I am just glad these 572.70 are working for me. Don't want to jinx it but peeps might want to give it a shot. I had to safe mode DDU everything to get them to run as advertised so might be worth thinking about doing that.
 
KickAssCop said:
Man, I am just glad these 572.70 are working for me. Don't want to jinx it but peeps might want to give it a shot. I had to safe mode DDU everything to get them to run as advertised so might be worth thinking about doing that.
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You play any games on these 572.70 drivers
 
DogsofJune said:
For rtx HL2 and are quirky
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That demo is quirky no matter the driver, in my experience last night. I don't think it was the drivers issue either.. across three drivers I was able to induce this RTX Remix crash pretty consistently doing something as simple as try to take a screenshot with F12 (steam screenshot)

At one point, a buddy (5090) and myself (4090) had our systems completely reboot while loading the game. Both very stable systems too.. so something is up.
 
LOCO LAPTOP said:
And still didn't fix the black screen issue.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1jeddbc/game_ready_studio_driver_57283_faqdiscussion/

Yeah I don't know seems to still be happening for some GPUs even updating the drivers causes Black Screens.
There are two issues one is updating the Driver though Nvidia's app which requires a restart button I'm not sure if the app does that. The other issue is a Displayport handshake issue with monitors which was the sleep issue I suspect.

Which is why people are recommending using HDMI instead of Displayport for a possible fix. Ever since the Nvidia app launched with these auto updates problems started to happen. People are using DDU uinstaller and installing 566 series Nvidia drivers instead which eventually won't work with games down the road.

I think I was running Windows 8 with a 1080ti GPU and I had the worse eyestrain for about two months until some better drivers came around.
It was a MSI founders edition card which back then all look identical to the Nvidia founders edition cards.
 
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I would like to say that I did initially have the black screen issue, but 572.65 fixed the issue for my 4090.

Looks like 572.83 brought back the issue for me lol.....Man what happened to the rock solid Nvidia driver team?
 
Brackle said:
I would like to say that I did initially have the black screen issue, but 572.65 fixed the issue for my 4090.

Looks like 572.83 brought back the issue for me lol.....Man what happened to the rock solid Nvidia driver team?
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Damn I'm not installing this p.o.s..
I wonder if I can delete it from the Nvidia app so I don't stupidly install it. I just uninstalled the App I'll just do it from the Nvidia Website.
 
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I don't know if any motherboard BIOS updates note any Blackwell related added support or fixes, but I recall a BIOS update that noted improvements on Lovelace when it was new. Some Radeon RX 9070 owners improved or fixed their situation updating their BIOS, but there also have been cases where enabling PCI-E 4 speed instead of 5 has helped. I would try a BIOS update, but what's the situation regarding the GPU's BIOS, because I didn't find anything offered by Asus or Gigabyte, since such was stated to come - perhaps it's offered through some software? It's possible that the issue is multifaceted, so they fix it in steps, alleviating the issue by every update, since I don't see why otherwise some would report the issue to be already gone. Perhaps some are annoyed that there is no one decisive update, but it's better to swiftly alleviate it as you can rather than let every owner wait longer for an ultimate solution - also if something is yet awry you get bug reports on the latest driver. We can assume that they are working hard on the fix and it's relieving to see an issue listed and mentioned in the first place.

PS. If the issue is wide spread, as it sounds like, perhaps it was best for Nvidia to have notable supply later than at launch, be it unintentional or otherwise. Better to have the driver in an acceptable condition before selling a component; the issues can leave a bad taste and what is a device worth you cannot effectively use due to software?
 
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GamerNerves said:
I don't know if any motherboard BIOS updates note any Blackwell related added support or fixes, but I recall a BIOS update that noted improvements on Lovelace when it was new. Some Radeon RX 9070 owners improved or fixed their situation updating their BIOS, but there also have been cases where enabling PCI-E 4 speed instead of 5 has helped. I would try a BIOS update, but what's the situation regarding the GPU's BIOS, because I didn't find anything offered by Asus or Gigabyte, since such was stated to come - perhaps it's offered through some software? It's possible that the issue is multifaceted, so they fix it in steps, alleviating the issue by every update, since I don't see why otherwise some would report the issue to be already gone. Perhaps some are annoyed that there is no one decisive update, but it's better to swiftly alleviate it as you can rather than let every owner wait longer for an ultimate solution - also if something is yet awry you get bug reports on the latest driver. We can assume that they are working hard on the fix and it's relieving to see an issue listed and mentioned in the first place.

PS. If the issue is wide spread, as it sounds like, perhaps it was best for Nvidia to have notable supply later than at launch, be it unintentional or otherwise. Better to have the driver in an acceptable condition before selling a component; the issues can leave a bad taste and what is a device worth you cannot effectively use due to software?
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Just looked at the strix z790e gaming wifi which is my board, last update (which I have) does not include any gpu fixes.
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Runs good with my 5080, but will have to try the new 5090 here soon with them.
 
Every driver after the 5090 release has been terrible even on my 4090, EXCEPT the one previous to this release. Even my 4090 was getting black screen issue if my monitor went to sleep, but it has since been resolved. Seeing as some people are saying its back, I am NOT upgrading until they fix it again.
 
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LOCO LAPTOP Generally there are no BIOS updates that affect how a fresh GPU generation works on the motherboard. My suggestion was just a suggestion; when you get new hardware, BIOS update might not hurt. It's something you should rule out in the first phases of troubleshooting, at least with the black screens.

erek The fourth comment behind the link points out how somebody updates the driver even when the issue was resolved for him in a previous version, which I find quite peculiar. There might be a good reason why somebody does that, but usually you should stay on the driver that works, unless the company states that they are introducing a critical security related update. Of course they might say that every update is critical just to avoid any backslash if their customer suffers a breach, but we know that some fixes are less important than others.
 
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III_Slyflyer_III said:
Every driver after the 5090 release has been terrible even on my 4090, EXCEPT the one previous to this release. Even my 4090 was getting black screen issue if my monitor went to sleep, but it has since been resolved. Seeing as some people are saying its back, I am NOT upgrading until they fix it again.
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I had a black screen too on my 4090 and thought my luck finally ran out and the card was beginning to die
 
III_Slyflyer_III said:
Every driver after the 5090 release has been terrible even on my 4090, EXCEPT the one previous to this release. Even my 4090 was getting black screen issue if my monitor went to sleep, but it has since been resolved. Seeing as some people are saying its back, I am NOT upgrading until they fix it again.
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Which driver is that you are running? 572.75? I've been having a lot of issues with all the drivers past the 566 series with black screens on my 4090.
 
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