NVIDIA Releases the GeForce 576.02 WHQL Game Ready Drivers

[btarunr]

NVIDIA today released the latest version of its GeForce Game Ready drivers. Version 576.02 WHQL comes with support for the new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics card that's available from today. The drivers fix several game-specific issues. To begin with, random crashes with gameplay for "Fortnite" has been fixed. The "DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED" crash noticed in "The First Berserker: Khazan" has been fixed. A bug that causes "Star Wars Outlaws" to freeze when the game is left idle for over 5 minutes, has been fixed. Game stability issues with DLSS Frame Generation on G-SYNC displays have been fixed. A crash when accepting quests in "Monster Hunter Wilds" with DLSS Frame Generation enabled, has been fixed. A crash with the error "GPU crashed or D3D Device Removed" in the game "InZOI" has been fixed.

A stutter noticed in "Overwatch 2" when using V-Sync has been fixed. Increased aliasing noticed with "Overwatch 2" has been fixed. Increased aliasing in "Hellbrade 2 Senua's Saga" with TSR enabled; as well as game crashes noticed in the game with Smooth Motion enabled, have been fixed. Smooth motion-triggered errors with TLOU Part 1 have been fixed. Dithering/banding seen on some RTX 50-series GPUs has been fixed. Flickering noticed in multiple areas of "Control" have been fixed. A stuttering noticed with V-Sync has been fixed, as were errors caused when combining it with NVCP and frame generation in games with DLSS 4. Artifacts noticed when collecting treasures in "Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection" have been fixed. Some stability issues specific to Windows 11 24H2 have been fixed.

DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 576.02 WHQL



Gaming Technology

• Support added for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• [Fortnite] random crashes during gameplay [5171520]
• [The First Berserker: Khazan] DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED Crash [5195216]
• [Star Wars Outlaws] Application will freeze after leaving the game idle for 5+ minutes [5191099]
• Game stability issues when playing games with DLSS Frame Generation + GSYNC [5144337]
• [Monster Hunter Wilds] Crash after accepting quest with DLSS-FG Enabled [5087795]
• [InZOI] Game crashes with error "GPU crashed or D3D Device Removed" [5154864]
• [Overwatch 2] Stutter when using VSYNC [5171856]
• [Hellblade 2 Senua's Saga] Increased aliasing when using TSR [5125662]
• [Hellblade 2 Senua's Saga] Crashing when using Smooth Motion [5209772]
• [The Last of Us Part 1] Crash when using Smooth Motion [5208799]
• Dithering/banding in some games on RTX 50-series GPUs [5121715]
• [Control] Flickering corruption in multiple areas [5118876]
• Stutter when using VSYNC [5202703][5202474]
• VSYNC in NVCP + frame generation causes issues in DLSS 4 games [5124816]
• [UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection] Artifacts on screen when collecting treasures [5158954]

Fixed General Bugs

• Stability issues when using Windows 11 24H2 [5160948]
• Bugcheck w/ PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (50) when playing games with DLSS 4 multi-frame generation [5144337]
• [RTX 50 series] GPUs crashes with black screen/underflow [5160845]
• [RTX 50 series] Random Black Screen issues [5090505]
• General system stability issues [4921925]
• [RTX 50 series] System hard hang with 572.16 driver loaded [5107271]
• Compute Shader related tests are failing due to "error" [4894179]
• [HWBU][DT GB202/203][LG 27GN950 Specific]: Display blacked out when applying 120 Hz refresh rate [5044229]
• PC display will not wake after extended sleep time [5131052]
• Two DP output of the RTX5090 will blue screen when trying to watch protected videos [5167145]
• Black screen issue when testing 3D mark with driver 572.02 and 572.16 [5095825]
• Primary Blank display showing blank after hot plug the display in daisy chain [4978206]
• Display shows blank screen on setting RR 165/200 Hz when daisy chain is enabled. [5049227]
• Second display showing blank when we apply higher RR for second display when displays connected in daisy chain [4956573]
• Primary monitor (AOROUS FO32U2P) goes blank when we HPD/power cycle second display in Daisy chain. [5075448]
• GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs crashes with black screen when playing graphically demanding games [5098914]
• RTX 50 series displays blank screens on LG 5k2k 45GX950A-B when running in DisplayPort 2.1 mode w/ HDR [5192671]
• Black screen on installing drivers and booting into Windows [5153642]
• DP2.1 - UHBR10/13.5 link rates are unstable on LGE 27GX790A-B [5080789]
• Multiple users reporting black screen issue when disable the "FCH Spread Spectrum" settings [5204493]
• [RTX 50 series] Slightly higher DPC latency may be observed on some system configuration [5168553]
• [RTX 50 series] Varjo Aero VR headset may fail to establish connection [5117518]
• Changing state of "Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area" does not take effect until PC is rebooted [4995658]
• [RTX 50 series] Display may show black screen when selecting DLDSR resolution [5144768]
• [Octanebench] Performance regression [3523803]
• [DaVinci Resolve] UI overlay in Fusion page is not displayed correctly [4974721]

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[PixelTech]

Omg finally! I can't wait to get back home from work and install this new driver! My screens freeze with my 5090 and 2 monitors after cold boot up when launching any app and will also freeze randomly too. Freezing has been happening from 20 sec to like 2 min if the keyboard/mouse are untouched. I haven't been able to complete a battle royal game in Fortnite because it would crash every, single, game! Overwatch 2 wouldn't even launch until I unplugged my second monitor, launched the game, and then could close the game and replug in the monitor. Boy!, OW2 would struggle to launch even after that. Then if I alt + tab-ed out of any game the 5090 would trip over itself over and over again and eventually let me out of the game. I have a G-Sync monitor and a compatible one, G-Sync hasn't been highlighting as being able to enable the whole time of ownership.
I'm hoping with this update that I'll see a performance improvement, as some games I benchmarked, like OW2, have lost avg fps compared to my previous 4090, by like 100+ fps!

 

[phints]

Wow huge list of fixes. Went ahead and ran DDU to blow 572 off my PC completely. 576.02 is great so far no issues.

 

[xSneak]

After installing this, I got a warning about the driver being known to cause instabilites when I launched Fortnite.

 

[Testsubject01]

After installing this, I got a warning about the driver being known to cause instabilites when I launched Fortnite.

Lots of games have issues with NVIDIA drivers past 566.36 WHQL and since most gamers don't do simple research or basic debugging, they go raging in Forums / Discord / social media.
Some PR/Community teams resorted to general disclaimers.

Just mind-numbingly baffling how a corporation raking in money like that, is dropping the ball so hart to squeeze every possible cent for the bottom line…

 

[chrcoluk]

Lots of games have issues with NVIDIA drivers past 566.36 WHQL and since most gamers don't do simple research or basic debugging, they go raging in Forums / Discord / social media.
Some PR/Community teams resorted to general disclaimers.

Just mind-numbingly baffling how a corporation raking in money like that, is dropping the ball so hart to squeeze every possible cent for the bottom line…

They need a feature freeze on the drivers, and that includes gaming profiles, crack down on all the bugs and weird quirks before resuming features.

 

[Crackong]

• [RTX 50 series] Random Black Screen issues [5090505]

Is it like the 5th time they ' FIXED ' this ???????

 

[wolf]

Loads of 50 series users reporting performance increases with this driver, and issues fixed. I never had the issues mind you bar some weirdness with OC values applying in a very early driver, but a free ~7% extra or so does sound nice. Maybe the chap posting in the other threads over the past few weeks (architect?) was actually onto something.

 

[Guwapo77]

Well I'm on my second 5080... First 5080 has all kinds of driver issues and constant crashing games. And in addition to that, the display port would just stop working and requires a hard restart. Second 5080 is a LOT better; however, Control (the game) still freezes and requires a hard restart. Hopefully one of these upcoming driver updates will fix the stability.

 

[TheDeeGee]

After installing this, I got a warning about the driver being known to cause instabilites when I launched Fortnite.

Same happend to me with 566.45, which is rock solid for me.

 

[M00nsun]

Nvidia installer crashes out for me at start and then NVCleaninstall says its complete, but it sure isn't, using the usual settings, tried several times, going from 572.83.

 

[evernessince]

4000 series should not upgrade to these drivers, they still have significant issues. The mods on the Nvidia reddit are doing their best to delete issue posts as usual:

 

[Guwapo77]

This driver seems to have fixed Marvel Rivals, which is a huge plus. This weekend I'll check the stability of other games - Control still broke broke tho.

 

[helios974]

This driver don't fix Monster hunter, it adds crash. Some user report this on steam, reddit and NVIDIA forum

I have an RTX 5090 Aorus master. With this driver, the game has several crashes and become unplayable.

With old driver, I had no crash

 

[Guwapo77]

There hasn't been a good driver for an Asus Astral 5080 yet... I wish I had a driver that just worked. ...I miss Radeon...

***Edit - Marvel Rivals just crashed. Not as often, but it happens***

 

[heady01]

After installing this, I got a warning about the driver being known to cause instabilites when I launched Fortnite.

It definitely still does tried it yesterday an was crashing wanna say 5-10 matches in everytime with ultra settings lumen on but no hardware rt on. I have seen on reddit that 561.09 is pretty stable for fortnite an have tested it myself an can say it hasn't been crashing no longer for me at least. This was with both doing a clean install of the driver than trying to reinstall it again but first using ddu in safe mode to remove all previous drivers an than try the latest update again an was still crashing.

 

[Guwapo77]

I'll give DDU a try tomorrow or Saturday...

 

[Tpanon]

I'm running a 5080 and the latest driver. One of my monitors still goes to black, and throws a displayport error. Happens at least once for every boot, a couple of minutes after login. But at least it's no worse than I can just turn the monitor off and on again, then everything works fine until the next boot (I'm oldschool and turn my pc off when I leave it for a period of time).
Since it takes a few minutes to trigger and it only happens once, I would say this is not actually a real displayport error. Must be the driver (or a service/whatever related to the driver) that does "something" after a few minutes and then never again.

 

[Quicks]

Anyone having issues with MSI afterburner and the GPU temperature getting stuck?