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

#101
Buddyspike
Aleksandar_038I could not care less about brands and bash them all when the need arise.

As for nVidia - there is perfect corellation in rise of bugs in recent drivers and AI usage.

So, my conclusion is not made solely on this one - heck, I think their swift reaction ia comendable.
This.

"Tools have existed for decades to streamline code (among other things) creation”:
wolfI don't call it copium, my take is that correlation doesn't definitively equal causation. Driver issues have happened for many years before any code was being assisted by AI, and like I said even if it definitely was (no proof of that), it's still ultimately a/some humans fault. Tools have existed for decades to streamline code (among other things) creation. AI (catch all buzzword losing its meaning) can be a powerful tool to assist in some tasks, but the work always needs to be checked and properly tested by actual people, that's the real failing here and one Nvidia definitely need to get on top of and fast, they would certainly be motivated to try their best to maintain the reputation for drivers they've had over many years now.

I'm more amused by the usual suspects that not only come to spread negativity, but do so with a double standard of crying foul in their favourite brands threads and using the usual bad faith and locigally fallacial arguments. I'm not here to say they aren't allowed an opinion because they don't own any relevant hardware (that's their stance), just find the hypocrisy entertaining. It was a welcome surprise to finally see a particularly toxic member that did this all the time banned recently.
You are confusing tools that help with (or streamline, as you put it ) software development vs generating code . Before LLMs like ChatGPT you couldn’t generate code, except very basic repetitive stuff.
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#102
Buddyspike
theonlyrobertDo we have literally any indication this was because AI code? Developers can make mistakes too, y'know.
But what do you expect, official statement from Nvidia that it wasn’t us , but some LLM ?
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#103
DAOWAce
What's the point of WHQL drivers if they can break critical things like fan control?

Always been an irony to me.

Bring back beta drivers, and the rapid release of them.
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#104
Dragam1337
DAOWAceWhat's the point of WHQL drivers if they can break critical things like fan control?

Always been an irony to me.

Bring back beta drivers, and the rapid release of them.
It's obvious they don't test anything at this point - just having ai write the drivers... only manually fix stuff afterwards if people complain enough...
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#107
Inferna
I'll wait for some ginea pigs test before installing this one :fear:
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#110
Dr. Dro
FR3D1@Inferna
Judging by this “feedback thread,” the driver may also be faulty.

With a friendly smile,
Fred.
Early reports that RTX 50 series cards have a bugged power curve and won't go above 0.975V, and multiple performance regressions throughout, with RE9 performance issues continuing to occur and some additional games like Endfield not performing as intended

The R590 branch has been terrible thus far. They're changing a ton of the code foundation as they remove the Maxwell and Pascal related code and somehow haven't been able to upkeep the usual Nvidia standard of quality.

I don't think the drivers are vibe coded but you'd understandably get the impression.

IMO stick to an R580 release (aka something that supports the older cards as well) until this blows over.
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#111
Tsukiyomi91
leather jacket man can't even come up with a response or opinion when literal nobodies walks up to his face asking questions that are not AI-generated. Goes to show that every CEO like him have room-temperature IQ due to excessive consumption of a tech that has little to no benefits for the world.
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