After releasing Game Ready Driver 576.02, the Hotfix Display Driver 576.26 further improves the driver support for RTX 50 series GPUs.
GeForce Display Driver 576.26 Released for Fixing Screen Flickering, Game Crashes, and Several Bugs for Systems Using RTX 50 Series GPUs
NVIDIA has been actively rolling out new driver updates to fix the widespread bugs that mostly affected the RTX 50 and RTX 40 series. Since RTX 50 series issues seem to be extending to just more than black screens, NVIDIA has come up with another hotfix driver that reportedly fixes multiple issues related to both displays and games.
The new GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 576.26 is based on the Game Ready Driver 576.02. It fixes several issues, apart from incorporating previous fixes released as part of Hotfix version 576.15. The new Hotfix driver fixes a less common gray screen crash on multiple monitor setups with RTX 50 series GPUs. Unlike the black screen crashes, the gray screen crashes haven’t been reported a lot and only appear to affect a multi-monitor setup.
However, the new Hotfix driver 576.26 fixes the more common flickering issues that have been reported by several users owning an RTX 50 GPU. The fix mostly occurs with a DisplayPort 2.1 connection on a monitor running at a high refresh rate. In some cases, the flickering only appears on the bottom half of the screen, but in others, it’s random and can appear anywhere. The Hotfix also fixes the blank screen issue in the DP 2.1 connection while the HDR is turned on some LG displays.
There seem to be more fixes related to games than displays. Issues like crashes and freezes in games like Black Myth: Wukong, Forza Horizon 5, Forza Motorsport, Dead Island 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and Resident Evil 4 Remake have reportedly been fixed. The recently released Game Ready Driver 576.02 brought more major updates to the RTX 50 series, including black screen issues and bugs affecting displays and games.
The 576.02 driver was one of the first to affect the actual performance of RTX 50 series GPUs to the point where users were seeing a solid 7% uplift with GPUs like RTX 5080. Many also reported increased performance on the RTX 40 and RTX 30 series as well. Hopefully, we should now see fewer reports of display issues and game crashes with drivers releasing in the near future.
News Source: NVIDIA
