NVIDIA Releases GeForce Hotfix Driver 576.15

[btarunr]

NVIDIA over the weekend pushed a Hotfix update to its GeForce drivers. Hotfixes are updates pushed out to meet glaring bugs or security vulnerabilities immediately, without leaving for the next planned Game Ready driver release. The GeForce Hotfix Driver 576.15 addresses an issue where some displays show flickering or corruption with RTX 50-series GPUs after updating to the GeForce Game Ready 576.02 drivers. A Lumion 2024 crash noticed on RTX 50-series GPUs when entering render mode has been fixed. A bug that causes GPU monitoring utilities to stop reporting data when the machine wakes up from sleep has been fixed. Some games crash when compiling shaders on RTX 50-series GPUs after updating to 576.02 drivers, which has been fixed.

A bug that causes GeForce RTX 50-series Laptop GPUs to put out black screens when waking up from modern standby has been fixed. Another bug that causes SteamVR to display V-Sync micro-stutters when using multi display, has been fixed. A glaring bug that causes lower than expected idle GPU clock speeds after updated to GRD 576.02 has been fixed.

DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce Hotfix Driver 576.15

• [RTX 50 series] Some games may display shadow flicker/corruption after updating to GRD 576.02 [5231537]
• Lumion 2024 crashes on GeForce RTX 50 series graphics card when entering render mode [5232345]
• GPU monitoring utilities may stop reporting the GPU temperature after PC wakes from sleep [5231307]
• [RTX 50 series] Some games may crash while compiling shaders after updating to GRD 576.02 [5230492]
• [GeForce RTX 50 series notebook] Resume from Modern Standby can result in black screen [5204385]
• [RTX 50 series] SteamVR may display random V-SYNC micro-stutters when using multiple displays [5152246]
• [RTX 50 series] Lower idle GPU clock speeds after updating to GRD 576.02 [5232414]

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[ixi]

Hehe, here you go testers, test these drivers

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Hehe, here you go testers, test these drivers

Seems by the time nGreedia fixes their driver, RTX 6000 will launch, line of folks, line up.

 

[MaxR]

Hi everyone, do you also have this problem of the active fans that should be turned off when the temperature is below 50°c? I also noticed this in version 576.06

 

[Chomiq]

Seriously, the amount of fuckups they pulled with these latest drivers is just embarrassing for a trillion dollar company. And it mostly affects 50-series which is just hilarious.

 

[SilentPeace]

Seriously, the amount of fuckups they pulled with these latest drivers is just embarrassing for a trillion dollar company. And it mostly affects 50-series which is just hilarious.

At this point, reviewers of 50-series cards should be recommending people hold off buying them because of the driver disaster, or buy an AMD card instead. It remains to be seen whether nvidia will ever truly fix them. They don't seem to know what they're doing any more.

The drivers are broken for 20, 30 and 40-series as well, many people are stuck on 566.36.

 

[_roman_]

Only amd has bad graphic card drivers - end of sarcasm.

PCGH is full with windows 11 issues and nvidia graphic card issues. I barely see it mentioned here. I think i see such news articles at least two times per month average

 

[mtosev]

That's a lot of bugs. Hopefully it resolves all the driver related issues.

 

[Ninehell]

What's the safe enough driver before 576.06 in case this driver doesn't work well. Bought MSI Shadow something x3 OC 5070ti 6 hours ago and it should come home within 6 hours.

Was planning to grab 9070XT but Sapphire official store here told me middle of this month. I check the store and it got unlisted from the shop. 9070XT still doesn't exist in this country except prebuild ASRock. What a sad day and it wasn't AMD that let me down.

 

[Quicks]

What's the safe enough driver before 576.06 in case this driver doesn't work well. Bought MSI Shadow something x3 OC 5070ti 6 hours ago and it should come home within 6 hours.

Was planning to grab 9070XT but Sapphire official store here told me middle of this month. I check the store and it got unlisted from the shop. 9070XT still doesn't exist in this country except prebuild ASRock. What a sad day and it wasn't AMD that let me down.

Just use the previous WHQL driver haven't had any issues with my 5070TI.

Driver Version: 572.83
Release Date: Tue Mar 18, 2025

 

[Caring1]

Jayz2Cents has a few words for Nvidia.

 

[Rightness_1]

Seriously, the amount of fuckups they pulled with these latest drivers is just embarrassing for a trillion dollar company. And it mostly affects 50-series which is just hilarious.

They're just trying to fool everyone that the 50x0 is actually different from the 40x0 chips, and not just some fuses that weren't blown to enable some features.

 

[Carlyle2020hs]

My 4090 isn´t safe from those issues either.

Fan issues.
V/F curve issues.

I´m back on v. 566

 

[Bomby569]

you need a hotfix to fix hotgarbage

 

[Athlonite]

Seriously, the amount of fuckups they pulled with these latest drivers is just embarrassing for a trillion dollar company. And it mostly affects 50-series which is just hilarious.

Right now I don't think nVidia even cares about gamers atleast not while AI is their thing at this point in time and they're making MAX Bank on AI GPU's/accelerators

 

[MaxR]

hello guys, use ddu(in safe mode) to install driver and fix fans and gpu clock problems

 

[Darc Requiem]

How many hotfix drivers have Nvidia released since the launch of the RTX 50 series? I just rolled my 40 series laptop back to 566.36. Gamers can't find 50 series cards but the driver issues that have been popping up since launch has been find everyone. This is ridiculous.

 

[neatfeatguy]

At this point, reviewers of 50-series cards should be recommending people hold off buying them because of the driver disaster, or buy an AMD card instead. It remains to be seen whether nvidia will ever truly fix them. They don't seem to know what they're doing any more.

The drivers are broken for 20, 30 and 40-series as well, many people are stuck on 566.36.

I was once stuck on a driver (I think it was 182.50 - going from memory, but it was right in that version range) for almost a year because any newer driver I tried resulted in a lot of broken performance over the next 9+ months. Granted this was when I was running two 8800 GTS 512 cards in SLI, so I was in a bit of a different wheelhouse than most people running single cards and they weren't having issues with newer drivers. Eventually a driver came out that didn't cause any problems for my setup, but it took a good while.

This was about the time I realized that upgrading your GPU driver every time a new one came out wasn't necessary. Games I played, even newer ones ran well enough or just fine with my setup. So I kind of learned that if it isn't broken, don't fix it.

Most people will be just fine sitting on driver 566.36 for a while.

 

[SilentPeace]

I was once stuck on a driver (I think it was 182.50 - going from memory, but it was right in that version range) for almost a year because any newer driver I tried resulted in a lot of broken performance over the next 9+ months. Granted this was when I was running two 8800 GTS 512 cards in SLI, so I was in a bit of a different wheelhouse than most people running single cards and they weren't having issues with newer drivers. Eventually a driver came out that didn't cause any problems for my setup, but it took a good while.

This was about the time I realized that upgrading your GPU driver every time a new one came out wasn't necessary. Games I played, even newer ones ran well enough or just fine with my setup. So I kind of learned that if it isn't broken, don't fix it.

Most people will be just fine sitting on driver 566.36 for a while.

I guess so. The one issue at the moment I have is that TLOU2 gives a warning each time that the driver should be updated to a newer one. Although I read that the newer driver actually stutters worse than the 'too old' one. I haven't tried it to personally confirm though. 566.36 periodically briefly stutters when entering a new area but 95% of the time the game never drops below vsync of 60fps.

I've also chosen not to use the nvidia app, because I've heard so many bad things about it. nvidia has to get their act together. There is no excuse. And stop releasing Studio drivers at the same time as the game ready ones. Studio drivers are meant to be rock solid and tested to destruction before being unleashed on the public. Yet they release with obvious major flaws which it should have been impossible for any tester to miss. What are they doing?

 

[Marcobolo]

Just an FYI. If you don't want the unfinished nvidia app don't install the hotfix driver as it forces the app upgrade and removes GeForce Experience.

 

[Darc Requiem]

Just an FYI. If you don't want the unfinished nvidia app don't install the hotfix driver as it forces the app upgrade and removes GeForce Experience.

Thanks for the heads up. While I don't use GeForce Experience, it's just another season to stick to 566.36. I feel for 50 series owners, because they don't even have that option

 

[Guwapo77]

I'm rolling back to the previous non-hotfix version. This made my games less stable...

 

[Ninehell]

Driver seem fine. Now I only play Helldiver 2, Palworld, MHWild, and Icarus. Can't really tell if there's anything will go wrong when this is my first 5000 card. RT Low on MHWild looks terrible.