NVIDIA Releases GeForce Hotfix Driver 576.26

[AleksandarK]

NVIDIA has just rolled out GeForce Hotfix Driver 576.26, an essential update for RTX 50 series graphics cards that fixes an array of game crashes, display oddities, and performance quirks that have been cropping up lately. If you've been getting random crashes in Black Myth: Wukong when the hero transforms or freezes in Horizon Forbidden West after loading a save, those problems are gone. DisplayPort 2.1 users will no longer see blank screens on those new LG monitors running HDR and you won't get that annoying flicker at high refresh rates, and if your multi-monitor setup was showing a grey-screen crash, that too should be fixed. Forza Horizon 5 fans can put nighttime light flickers behind them, and Forza Motorsport tracks will stay intact whether you're racing at night or running benchmarks.

Red Dead Redemption 2 now starts smoothly in DX12 mode, and you should see Dead Island 2 run OK again after updating past game-ready driver 576.02. Resident Evil 4 Remake's background textures will stop flickering, and the fixes from the previous 576.15 hotfix are included here too, so shadow corruption, Lumion 2024 crashes, missing GPU temperature reports after sleep, shader compile crashes, notebook standby black screens, SteamVR micro-stutters and low idle clock speeds have all been addressed. In a true tone of hotfix, the driver is quickly patching out weird game quirks after they were established as bugs on a wide range of user machines.


DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce Hotfix Driver 576.26


Here is a complete changelog:
This Hotfix addresses the following:

• [RTX 50 series] [Black Myth]: The game will randomly crash when Wukong transforms [5231902]
• [RTX 50 series] [LG 27GX790A/45GX950A/32GX870A/40WT95UF/27G850A]: Display blank screens when running in DisplayPort 2.1 mode with HDR [5080789]
• [Forza Horizon 5]: Lights flicker at nighttime [5038335]
• [Forza Motorsport]: Track corruption occurs in benchmark or night races. [5201811]
• [RTX 50 series] [Red Dead Redemption 2]: The game crashes shortly after starting in DX12 mode. No issue in Vulkan mode [5137042]
• [RTX 50 series] [Horizon Forbidden West]: The game freezes after loading a save game [5227554]
• [RTX 50 series] Grey screen crashes with multiple monitors [5239138]
• [RTX 50 series] [Dead Island 2]: The game crash after updating to GRD 576.02 [5238676]
• [RTX 50 series] [Resident Evil 4 Remake]: Flickering background textures [5227655]
• [RTX 50 series] Momentary display flicker occurs when running in DisplayPort2.1 mode with a high refresh rate [5009200]

This Hotfix driver incorporates the fixes introduced in the previous GeForce Hotfix v576.15.:

• [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 Standy 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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[unhealthy]

Nvidia is seriously back to amateur hour after 5000-series launch again, wonder how long it'll take them to fix the drivers properly this time. Pathetic

 

[piloponth]

Nvidia is seriously back to amateur hour after 5000-series launch again, wonder how long it'll take them to fix the drivers properly this time. Pathetic

They really shifted focus to fully support B200 installations in datacenters. I guess there are like three guys supporting gaming in the whole company.

 

[archie_kaos]

Since the last Driver-Releases i get random Bluescreens in W11 and Windows Log says its from the Driver with failed Power State Changing.

Its a 3060 12GB. This Release seams only fixing issues with Blackwell. And the 3060 is still produced with 12GB. 300€ for this Card.

And the Drivers get worse from Release to Release. Nvidia?

 

[Quicks]

They really shifted focus to fully support B200 installations in datacenters. I guess there are like three guys supporting gaming in the whole company.

Probably using AI for hardware and driver changes in Blackwell and it's not working as expected.

 

[LittleBro]

[RTX 50 series] Grey screen crashes with multiple monitors [5239138]

Still not fix for black screens and BSODS?

 

[lepudruk]

I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Last revisions were far from stable, so thanks but no thanks.

 

[PerfectWave]

Rember me radeon black screen with 5700
NVIDIA best drivers ahahahah

 

[DoDe]

Ok but what about the performance decrease since the 576.xx release on 40 series. Has it been corrected? I don't see any mention of it.

 

[umeng2002]

Probably using AI for hardware and driver changes in Blackwell and it's not working as expected.

Yup

 

[Rightness_1]

This is a psyop to make you believe the Blackwell series is actually a new architecture, and not just a Lovelace respin with some fuses not popped and some extra enabled cuda cores and rops.

 

[erek]

This is a psyop to make you believe the Blackwell series is actually a new architecture, and not just a Lovelace respin with some fuses not popped and some extra enabled cuda cores and rops.

rops are the same quantity, they just threw more juice at it with 600 Watts, brute forced performance

 

[TheDeeGee]

Still not fix for black screens and BSODS?

Even my 4070 Ti has sporadic black screens during a cold boot, i think it's that stupid power design in combination with the 12-Pin.

Never had that issue when i still owned my 1070 with regular 8-Pin, and the rest of the hardware stayed the same.

Nvidia is seriously back to amateur hour after 5000-series launch again, wonder how long it'll take them to fix the drivers properly this time. Pathetic

Yeah, after 15 years of NVIDIA i've made a full 180 for my future upgrade.

 

[uio77]

Ray tracing cannot be activated in Control ... game will crash in 10 seconds ...RTX 5080 here....

 

[DoDe]

I just installed it on 4090 mobile and so far good. I will do more tests.

 

[Gatt]

Everything OK on my 4070 Ti Super

 

[robiatti]

• [RTX 50 series] [LG 27GX790A/45GX950A/32GX870A/40WT95UF/27G850A]: Display blank screens when running in DisplayPort 2.1 mode with HDR [5080789]

What a Joke, So HDR does now work , but what good does it do if the monitor will not wake from standby while on DP2.1 (45GX950A) DP1.4 works but that's not what I paid for, only a full power cycle brings it back.
It does really seem like amateur hour is happening at nVidia.

 

[DoDe]

• [RTX 50 series] [LG 27GX790A/45GX950A/32GX870A/40WT95UF/27G850A]: Display blank screens when running in DisplayPort 2.1 mode with HDR [5080789]

What a Joke, So HDR does now work , but what good does it do if the monitor will not wake from standby while on DP2.1 (45GX950A) DP1.4 works but that's not what I paid for, only a full power cycle brings it back.
It does really seem like amateur hour is happening at nVidia.

On 4090 mobile HDR works

 

[TheDigitalJedi]

Hello all,

On top of the Nvidia driver issues we now have an update that has totally destroyed the experience of Black Myth Wukong. Extreme Shader Compilation Stutter, screen flickering, 3-4 second freezes, crashes, audio drops and worse graphic fidelity. This game has been uninstalled, reinstalled, verified files, driver changes after executing DDU, running default clocks on ram, CPU, GPU and finally making sure all temps are cool.

Nvidia Driver 576.26 did not fix this game. Previous drivers are no better because I've tried them. I have 4 Nvme drives and all are fine while running at their full speeds. Other large file AAA games that are not affected by Nvidia's drivers are running well.

Zotac Amp Extreme Infinity 5090
Ryzen 9950X3D
Gskill Trident Z DDR5 6400 mhz
Asus X670E-A Motherboard
Seasonic 1600 Watt Prime PX

Game settings are all Cinematic at 4k resolution with Framegen on 2X.

The game was running well before the latest update that included Multi Frame Generation.

I even downloaded and tried to play the previous version of Wukong from Steam DB. That didn't work at all because the game will not boot up. I'm about ready to throw in the towel.

Can other 5090 and 5000 series users please report your recent experiences with Black Myth Wukong? If you can it's much appreciated and thanks.

 

[LittleBro]

You should not be playing terribly optimized PoS Wukong at first place. But still:

It's a total disaster:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/564309/announcing-geforce-hotfix-driver-57626-released-42/

Users are posting like 4-5 new posts per hour regarding driver issues. Some say the new hotfix is gonna be released this week.

 

[TheDigitalJedi]

Big thanks to user RedHongKong!!!

redhongkong Sep 26, 2024 @ 2:21am

C:\Users\ ur windows id \AppData\Local\b1\Saved

maybe delete that xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.ushaderpreache file
and see if that reset it

I would've never thought to delete the whole folder due to completely uninstalling and reinstalling the game several times.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

New certifiied driver just popped:

https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/576.28/576.28-win11-win10-release-notes.pdf

https://us.download.nvidia.com/Wind...-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe

As always; may the odds be in your favour.

 

[DoDe]

New certifiied driver just popped:

https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/576.28/576.28-win11-win10-release-notes.pdf

https://us.download.nvidia.com/Wind...-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe

As always; may the odds be in your favour.

So quick after the fix? I doubt we have all things sort out with this one.

 

[Scattergrunt]

All in favor of renaming NVIDIA's GPU cards to 'HTFX' instead of "GTX" or "RTX" with how many hotfixes they gotta do that still doesn't fix all the problems? lol.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

So quick after the fix? I doubt we have all things sort out with this one.

Strange isn't it? They might have just as well waited, the hotfix, was what, yesterday? lol

Anyways, so far I am happy to report, things feel smoother, less stutter, MFG actually feels usable, I used to HATE the damn tech, felt bad, and I mean really bad, now, it's actually usable to me.

It was a problem, when you had G-Sync + V-Sync + MFG enabled, the input lag/latency was crap, I wonder if any others will have the same luck? I will monitor on the nGreedia site (Phew!, close one, I almost called them by their real name)

All my sensors report correctly, my fan curve works, some game glitches I had are gone (Except for The Tomb Raider series, buggy games) Rise of the Tomb raider, if you enable Tessellation, you can see through the skin meshes sometimes, As for Shadows, if you walk near smoking barrel, you get this (Yet to try it with the new driver)

(*Edit*) seems Ray Traced shadows only activate after a restart, which causes the below
Not Fixed:

http://imgur.com/mTqLoEe

Not Fixed:

http://imgur.com/S7Qt9E2

Anyways still got to test some stuff, Metro EE is another one, where if RTX reflections are not on Hybrid, some reflections on water will be greenish while being a bit pixelated. No, it's not radioactive water.

HL2 RTX looks great, damn, just look at that frametime graph