Monday, March 10th 2025

NVIDIA Irons Out "Blackwell" Black Screen Issues with Latest GeForce Hotfix Display Driver v572.75

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AleksandarK
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NVIDIA has finally responded to widespread stability problems affecting its RTX 50 series "Blackwell" GPU lineup with the release of GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 572.75. The emergency update specifically targets two critical issues: black screen crashes plaguing the entire RTX 50 series and performance degradation after system reboots when overclocking RTX 5080/5090 models. This hotfix arrives after weeks of user complaints about system instability, particularly when utilizing DLSS 4 frame generation and other advanced features. The release comes directly through NVIDIA's Customer Care support site rather than standard distribution channels, packed in the hotfix release.

According to NVIDIA's release notes, the driver underwent an "abbreviated QA process" to spread its availability to affected users. While the company acknowledges the complexity of its driver software and has "an army of software engineers" addressing bugs, many early Blackwell buyers have expressed frustration over paying premium prices for hardware hindered by fundamental stability issues. NVIDIA has indicated that these fixes and additional improvements will be incorporated into the next official WHQL-certified driver release, though no specific timeline has been provided. At TechPowerUp, we don't host hotfix drivers, only WHQL versions, so you must go to NVIDIA's website here to download the latest driver.
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23 Comments on NVIDIA Irons Out "Blackwell" Black Screen Issues with Latest GeForce Hotfix Display Driver v572.75

#1
nguyen
more driver hotfixes came out than the number of 5090s that arrived in my country, still waiting for my 5090 :kookoo:
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#2
Legacy-ZA
nguyendang, more driver versions came out than the number of 5090s that arrived in my country, still waiting for my 5090 :kookoo:
Too scared to update mine, still running 572.60. We haven't even seen specialized performance uplift driver as of yet either, I guess they have to iron out their "features" for stability first. lol
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#3
oxrufiioxo
nguyenmore driver hotfixes came out than the number of 5090s that arrived in my country, still waiting for my 5090 :kookoo:
I'm surprised they haven't canceled your order just to offer you a higher price but we will get it to you faster bro....
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#6
Dr. Dro
nguyenmore driver hotfixes came out than the number of 5090s that arrived in my country, still waiting for my 5090 :kookoo:
Yeah, me too. Sucks doesn't it. :(
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#7
TheDeeGee
Legacy-ZAToo scared to update mine, still running 572.60. We haven't even seen specialized performance uplift driver as of yet either, I guess they have to iron out their "features" for stability first. lol
Still on 566.45 myself until this 50-series driver storm has calmed down.
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#8
Vayra86
Dr. DroYeah, me too. Sucks doesn't it. :(
Karma is a bitch (not for you guys... Nvidia)
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#9
Klemc
Sunday's driver, go to work people, games must work on our latest crapiece at any human cost, forget your life.

All that just for a few gamers that lost their mind paying 3000 buck.
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#10
bug
Anyone else finds it interesting how these widespread issues are not noticed by reviewers during their hundreds of hours of benchmarking?
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#11
Hakker
And people still dare to say AMD has driver issues and that their drivers suck. This makes those driver issues from 20 years ago a joke.
Nvidia has the entire industry behind their back and yet AMD has more stable drivers than Nvidia has.
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#13
dgianstefani
TPU Proofreader
bugAnyone else finds it interesting how these widespread issues are not noticed by reviewers during their hundreds of hours of benchmarking?
"Widespread"

I'm guessing about as widespread as the ROP issue, likely less.
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#14
shadad
guess when i decided to jump ship to AMD after years of team green was the right move this year lol.
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#16
Quicks
Did they use AI to develop Blackwell and it's drivers or something that we are having such BS with this generation.

Getting very quick black flickering on the desktop, and when watching movies / series.

Wonder if it has something to do with Windows Multiplane Overlay. [MPO]
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#17
mb194dc
Amazing products costing thousands of dollars got released missing hardware and with these rampant software bugs. No QA testing done at all pretty much?

They're Intel mark 2 but even more arrogant and complacent..

Maybe there's a scale between unjustifiable market valuation of a business and their subsequent complacency...
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#18
john_
It must be hardware issue. Nvidia programmers, seriously, know their jobs. Having a problem to fix this, probably means hardware problem.

And I am thinking this is hardware problem for one simple reason.
Nvidia themselves came out and said that they had found a problem in the first Blackwell chips. So, add also the missing ROPs problem and ask yourselves. Does Nvidia have the luxury to throw away chips? Their customers are waiting in line for weeks or even months. You believe Nvidia will throw away all those GPUs? What if someone high ranked in Nvidia asked "Can we fix it with a special firmware and driver" and someone fearing to say no, to not look incompetent, said "Yes"? Remember Intel with the oxidation problem? They knew it, they thought it will be OK, it wasn't.

I think someone in Nvidia did a small mistake directing all the "This can't be sold to Musk, because it is unstable" GPUs, to the gaming market.
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#19
tommesfps
Every NVidia customer should ask themself how it is possible to pay multiple of the competitor, but the driver and software is still free. I can only suggest if you are able to pay the premium for the hardware to accept better drivers only come for premium subscription per month.
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#20
Darmok N Jalad
bugAnyone else finds it interesting how these widespread issues are not noticed by reviewers during their hundreds of hours of benchmarking?
Oh that’s easy. Because the product hasn’t officially launched yet, reviewers can/will assume it’s just prelaunch driver issues. I assume there’s an agreement to report prerelease bugs but not hit on it in reviews unless it’s really bad. It’s certainly a flaw in the process, as people want day-one reviews and these products take a long time to test. Any company can do this, and it’s a bit of a gotcha.
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#21
SRB151
john_It must be hardware issue. Nvidia programmers, seriously, know their jobs. Having a problem to fix this, probably means hardware problem.

And I am thinking this is hardware problem for one simple reason.
Nvidia themselves came out and said that they had found a problem in the first Blackwell chips. So, add also the missing ROPs problem and ask yourselves. Does Nvidia have the luxury to throw away chips? Their customers are waiting in line for weeks or even months. You believe Nvidia will throw away all those GPUs? What if someone high ranked in Nvidia asked "Can we fix it with a special firmware and driver" and someone fearing to say no, to not look incompetent, said "Yes"? Remember Intel with the oxidation problem? They knew it, they thought it will be OK, it wasn't.

I think someone in Nvidia did a small mistake directing all the "This can't be sold to Musk, because it is unstable" GPUs, to the gaming market.
I'll take that explanation and raise you one. How about this, Nvidia discovered both issues early on, couldn't very well tell the truth and cancel the launch, so they decided to ship the best of the batch they could find and sort it out after they fix the issues. This seems to have been par for the course for Nvidia lately. Anyone remember that initial blackweell server customers had overheating issues, the postponed their big server release, and had to go back to the drawing board about cooling the chip.

Nivida seems to be about get the product out the door and let's see how it goes.
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#22
xorbe
Sounds like they are having difficulty working around a hardware bug (whether functional or volt/freq management). Wouldn't be the first time that's for sure. Or the boost tables are too aggressive out of the factory.
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#23
wNotyarD
Multi-failure generation going strong. If it wasn't enough that the 5000-series launch was botched, 4000 and earlier-series are getting screwed as well.
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