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Are The "Newer" NVIDIA GPU Driver Series Now Good Enough To Install (Bugs Fixed?)

I'm playing at 4K with the 3080 12GB and 3080ti, so you're right about that. Using DLSS performance though.
 
CyberCT said:
I'm playing at 4K with the 3080 12GB and 3080ti, so you're right about that. Using DLSS performance though.
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If you want to save on VRAM and increase overall performance, disable whatever form of AA that might be in use. At 4k, you just don't need it. It's a useless waste of GPU resources.
 
Chomiq said:
No they aren't. Latest driver caused black screen issues with my buddy's 5090 FE to the point where it wouldn't boot until he put in the 4090 he had previously and reverted the driver to the older one.
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Hopefully he isn't having bugs with the 4090 as well. I've had a few crashes to black screen with the GPU fans ramping to full. Foolish of me to update my drivers thinking the issues are fixed.
 
I've used the latest driver on all my systems 4090, 3080ti, 3050. Some really random issues here and there but nothing system breaking sometimes I feel like it could be Windows 11 shenanigans as well or a combination still the last 4-5 months Nvidia has released drivers with more problems than the previous decade at least for me.

I also had the black screen issues on a 5070ti build but replacing the card fixed the issue so probably hardware related but it is the first Nvidia card in 15 years I received with issues for a build. 5090 build a few weeks earlier no issues still fine according to the owner.

Putting together a 5060ti build so far it's been fine.
 
Nvidia's drivers are absolutely not fixed. Just had more crashes today and I've got receipts that it's 100% the drivers:

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I'm immediately reverting to the version I was using, this is unacceptable.
 
evernessince said:
Nvidia's drivers are absolutely not fixed. Just had more crashes today and I've got receipts that it's 100% the drivers:

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I'm immediately reverting to the version I was using, this is unacceptable.
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Interesting. Explorer triggering the crash, of all things. Did you try to do a search or generate a thumbnail at the time of the crash?
 
Dr. Dro said:
Interesting. Explorer triggering the crash, of all things. Did you try to do a search or generate a thumbnail at the time of the crash?
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I wasn't at the PC at the time of the crash. I came back to the PC being non-responsive with no display.

I use directory opus as my file manager so I rarely use explorer (although explorer can refer to other parts of the windows shell as well). The faulting application is explorer but the faulting module is nvwgf2umx.dll.

According to ChatGPT, it's an Nvidia graphics driver component that handles the following:

- Handling GPU instructions passed from DirectX 11+ applications

- Communicating with the kernel-mode NVIDIA driver (nvlddmkm.sys)

- Implementing WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) user-mode functions

- Supporting features like hardware acceleration, shaders, tessellation, and other advanced rendering tasks

I wasn't doing any heavy work in the background during this time. I've actually off-loaded all my encoding work to two other PCs so the system was idle.

This is the error that started the chain of resulting errors:

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This seems to indicate that communication with the GPU dropped out.
 
evernessince said:
I wasn't at the PC at the time of the crash. I came back to the PC being non-responsive with no display.

I use directory opus as my file manager so I rarely use explorer (although explorer can refer to other parts of the windows shell as well). The faulting application is explorer but the faulting module is nvwgf2umx.dll.

According to ChatGPT, it's an Nvidia graphics driver component that handles the following:

- Handling GPU instructions passed from DirectX 11+ applications

- Communicating with the kernel-mode NVIDIA driver (nvlddmkm.sys)

- Implementing WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) user-mode functions

- Supporting features like hardware acceleration, shaders, tessellation, and other advanced rendering tasks

I wasn't doing any heavy work in the background during this time. I've actually off-loaded all my encoding work to two other PCs so the system was idle.

This is the error that started the chain of resulting errors:

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This seems to indicate that communication with the GPU dropped out.
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Yeah, nvwgf2umx.dll is the user-mode driver (UMD) component of the nvidia driver while nvlddmkm.sys is the kernel mode (KMD) component. Basically the UMD is responsible for interacting with the KMD, ChatGPT isn't wrong there. You may have seen me use this terminology on posts before, that's what it means. I picked that up on my years of beta testing AMD drivers ;)

Given the circumstances of the crash, my best guesses are either an issue with power management (a lot of posts complaining about high idle power recently, mostly on Blackwell though), or the web browser component used by web search, news and weather, etc. crashed due to a known fault with browser rendering that led to corruption and crashes. They've issued the 576.66 hotfix this week for the latter, although I haven't heard anything about the power management bug. It's worth a shot, anyway.
 
Dr. Dro said:
Yeah, nvwgf2umx.dll is the user-mode driver (UMD) component of the nvidia driver while nvlddmkm.sys is the kernel mode (KMD) component. Basically the UMD is responsible for interacting with the KMD, ChatGPT isn't wrong there. You may have seen me use this terminology on posts before, that's what it means. I picked that up on my years of beta testing AMD drivers ;)

Given the circumstances of the crash, my best guesses are either an issue with power management (a lot of posts complaining about high idle power recently, mostly on Blackwell though), or the web browser component used by web search, news and weather, etc. crashed due to a known fault with browser rendering that led to corruption and crashes. They've issued the 576.66 hotfix this week for the latter, although I haven't heard anything about the power management bug. It's worth a shot, anyway.
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Well at least we can eliminate search, news, and weather as I have all those disabled.

I'll probably end up sticking with 572.75 for another 6 months, stability is much more important than new game performance boosts for this system.
 
No issues here, someone mentioned FH5 I been playing the game extensible now with some friends that got it on PS5 and I dont have any issue since they fixed the blinking lights bug. I want to notice that I had several issues for weeks after the cards were released but last couple of drivers been all fine for me.

I would say to give it a try.
 
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