Friday, February 27th 2026

NVIDIA Pulls GeForce 595.59 WHQL Game Ready Driver After Widespread Bug Reports

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AleksandarK
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NVIDIA has officially pulled its latest GeForce 595.59 WHQL Game Ready driver from the downloads page as user reports of stability issues continue to pile up. Reportedly, users are experiencing fan detection issues on their GPU coolers, with only a single fan working. Some issues like clock stability have also occurred. On NVIDIA's official GeForce Forums, users have been complaining about driver stability, and the company has advised users to roll back the driver version to the previously stable 591.86 WHQL driver if they are experiencing any symptoms. The GeForce 595.59 WHQL Game Ready driver was launched as an optimization package to get Resident Evil Requiem and Marathon games running smoothly, which turned into a disaster that the community has reported.
NVIDIAFebruary 26th, 11am PT Update: We have discovered a bug in the Game Ready and Studio 595.59 WHQL drivers and have removed the downloads temporarily while our team investigates. For users that have already installed this driver, and are experiencing issues with fan control, please roll back to 591.86 WHQL. NVIDIA app users can reinstall their previous driver by clicking the three dots in the Drivers tab.
Update 06:57 UTC: We have removed the broken driver version from our downloads section.

While we await the official company update on the bug fix, the older stable driver versions are available for a quick download on TechPowerUp's download section page, where we keep even the older files in case anyone in the community needs them. Head over to our download section to check it out.
Source: GeForce Forums

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111 Comments on NVIDIA Pulls GeForce 595.59 WHQL Game Ready Driver After Widespread Bug Reports

#1
Bobaganoosh
I see the AI continues to deliver outstanding quality.
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#2
Tsukiyomi91
I see that vibe coding is at an all-time high from a company that sells more AI slop than putting actual effort in selling proper hardware and writing proper software. Fuck Ngreedia and their "partners".
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#4
SemperPC09
Oh no, Is Vibe-Coding not getting good results. Oh no, what will Nvida do? They couldn't just write the code themselves, like every normal person.
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#5
AGlezB
Once upon a time a WHQL label on a driver meant it was good to go and you could install it without a care in the world. Now that's not one but two trillion-dollar companies so high on their own product they can't, between the both of them, release a video driver that isn't broken six ways to Sunday. :oops:
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#8
The Norwegian Drone Pilot
Are NVIDIA trying to race Microsoft on being the ABSOLUTE worst programmers out there or someting?
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#9
Unregistered
Shouldn't TPU also delete the bad driver to prevent anyone mistakenly installing it?
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#10
RejZoR
5 trillion dollar company. LMAO.
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#11
Sound_Card
I was told they have the best drivers.
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#12
Athena
Poor Nvidia, they can't afford QC people, they need to raise prices to hire more people... :banghead: 🙄
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#13
ThomasK
All that focus on gamers AI, yet that same AI can't manage to put out some decent and working drivers. Microsoft's jealous!
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#14
Sound_Card
ThomasKAll that focus on gamers AI, yet that same AI can't manage to put out some decent and working drivers. Microsoft's jealous!
Imagine paying a grand for card that has AI generated driver code lol.
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#15
Hecate91
PerfectWavewondering ready for what? :roll:
Ready to break gpu's, the more you buy the more you save.
Sound_CardImagine paying a grand for card that has AI generated driver code lol.
But I was told they care more about gamers.
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#16
the54thvoid
Super Moderator
I don't mind admitting that I chuckled when I saw the headline, considering how NV framed the in-house AI coding push.

It's premature to blame AI, but the optics are bad.
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#17
neatfeatguy
And folks give me crap about my; if it isn't broke, don't fix it mentality when it comes to drivers or OS updates from Windows.

Get burned enough times you learn to not "fix" something that isn't broke.
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#18
R-T-B
AGlezBOnce upon a time a WHQL label on a driver meant it was good to go and you could install it without a care in the world. Now that's not one but two trillion-dollar companies so high on their own product they can't, between the both of them, release a video driver that isn't broken six ways to Sunday. :oops:
Honestly that has never been true.
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#19
Churros
RejZoR5 trillion dollar company. LMAO.
Yup and it will probably get worse the more they’re worth 🤣
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#20
AGlezB
R-T-BHonestly that has never been true.
If you're refering to the WHQL part then you're mostly right. The WHQL purpose is to ensure compatibility with Windows and doesn't guarantee the driver is actually any good. That's said, WHQL certification used to cost money per test so companies generally didn't submit their drivers until they were thoroughly tested internally, which meant higher confidence in general for WHQL certified drivers.
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#21
wolf
Better Than Native
Hecate91But I was told they care more about gamers.
They care enough to actually communicate with them promptly and own a mistake, among the other reasons you've been provided.
the54thvoidIt's premature to blame AI, but the optics are bad.
People see what they want to see and the anti-AI sentiment is strong. "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". At the end of the day humans are responsible and accountable for this, even if it's true that the issue is 100% attributable to AI code.
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#22
ThomasK
the54thvoidIt's premature to blame AI
If Microsoft flaunts about 30% of its code being written by AI, what do you think is the % of the company behind the revolution of the AI bubble?

Not premature at all.
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#23
Event Horizon
QA issue. Doesn't matter if human or AI wrote the code.
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#24
Steevo
Rack cards don't have fans..... the issues are these crybaby gamers with cards they didn't want to sell anyway. So what if it breaks your GPU from overheating, once its gone you have to subscribe to their service where they make the real money anyway.
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#25
Hecate91
I'd guess most of their code is AI, and the software team isn't stopping to check the AI slop coding because the only thing that matters is AI hardware.
It isn't premature at all to question whether Nvidia is using AI to code drivers, after they had months of bad drivers and ineffective hotfixes, now they're back to terrible mistakes they have no excuses to be making.

And for those who want to shield the company, maybe if Nvidia would simply have real people do QA, they wouldn't need to pull back drivers. It looks ridiculously sloppy at this point for a $5 trillion company to have drivers this bad. Intel labels their Arc drivers as a beta and they're more stable than this,lol.
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