**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

[ljt]

Black screen after install with just cursor showing on a 3080fe here.

But I didnt force restart, eventually after ctrl+alt+delete it got the menu up and then loaded task manager, which seemed to bring the screens back to life.

 

[ICDP]

4080 here and took a chance on the latest drivers and finally they seem stable. To say Nvidia dropped the ball on drivers over the last load of months is an understatement.

 

[Rawr]

The drivers just seem really awful recently don't they?

I'm on the latest, and frame gen just seems really suttery on my 5090 when going over my refresh rate. Forcing vsync on the driver solves the issue as it caps it a bit below my refresh rate but I've heard that disables DLSS 4 so doesn't feel like much of a solution.

The driver also seems to crash/give a black screen when I turn my TV on(not even to use it on my PC) and I have to force a restart. I've taken to just disabling my TV in the NVCP as I'm not using it too much on my PC at the moment, mainly just use my ultrawide anyway.

Edit: Seems like DLSS 4 + RTSS cap might solve the frame gen issue for now

 

[teh_captain]

Crossing my fingers and toes the latest drivers are better than anything in the last....3+ months? Had several instances of doing nothing other than web browsing and my screens going black and restarting, PUBG crashing with a 'graphics driver' error a few times amongst other niggles. I don't know if it's a coincidence but since installing W11 24H2 my gaming experience and using Windows in general has been pretty much worse than all my time on Windows 10.

EDIT: on a 3070

 

[Axil]

Crossing my fingers and toes the latest drivers are better than anything in the last....3+ months? Had several instances of doing nothing other than web browsing and my screens going black and restarting, PUBG crashing with a 'graphics driver' error a few times amongst other niggles. I don't know if it's a coincidence but since installing W11 24H2 my gaming experience and using Windows in general has been pretty much worse than all my time on Windows 10.

EDIT: on a 3070

Those black screens weren't while using Firefox were they? - I also have them with a 3070 and it's because the RTX VSR and GPU video acceleration in general seemed to be borked with the 57x drivers

 

[teh_captain]

Those black screens weren't while using Firefox were they? - I also have them with a 3070 and it's because the RTX VSR and GPU video acceleration in general seemed to be borked with the 57x drivers

No, using Chrome. I did read of a 'fix' which is to set the Power Management Mode in the nvidia app to 'Prefer maximum performance' but each time I restart it resets back to Normal and there are times I've forgotten. I don't think that's tied to games crashing though, just the driver being **** in general.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

There are only 3 reasons to update your Nvidia driver imo

1. It fixes a bug you have
2. It adds optimisations for a game you want to play
3. It adds a new feature you want

Otherwise, just don't do it. No point, you're more likely to just introduce a problem you didn't have before.

 

[Bidley]

There are only 3 reasons to update your Nvidia driver imo

1. It fixes a bug you have
2. It adds optimisations for a game you want to play
3. It adds a new feature you want

Otherwise, just don't do it. No point, you're more likely to just introduce a problem you didn't have before.

Good advice except some 50 series owners are just waiting for a single stable driver to stick to.

 

[MyBrainz]

Good advice except some 50 series owners are just waiting for a single stable driver to stick to.

One of the drawbacks of FOMO

 

[Rawr]

So to add to the pile of issues with these new drivers. My clock speed on the 5090 just gets locked to around 700mhz in Star Wars Outlaws and there's nothing I can do to increase it. I've not come across any other games that do this. Voltage control is already disabled in afterburner so it's not that like some clock speed locking issues are.

 

[Varys]

Installed the latest drivers, Cyberpunk now having huge frametime spikes every 60 or so seconds. Borderline unplayable.

Still have to disable G Sync on desktop, or I get white screen flickering. What a joke.

.83 drivers. Also had to disable Gsync. I get black flickering with frame gen (only in the witcher 3). Cpunk runs fine

 

[Dicehunter]

Project G-Assist now available through the Nvidia App, It's a small local language model, Nothing too complex but fun to play around with.

 

[wunkley]

Project G-Assist now available through the Nvidia App, It's a small local language model, Nothing too complex but fun to play around with.

So this is why nothing works in Nvidia gaming software anymore. They're wasting resources playing around with pointless AI toys that have nothing to do with a gaming GPU. Makes sense now we're living in clown world.

If I install it can I ask it why nothing ******* works properly with my 5080?

 

[heatonpkmassive]

So this is why nothing works in Nvidia gaming software anymore. They're wasting resources playing around with pointless AI toys that have nothing to do with a gaming GPU. Makes sense now we're living in clown world.

If I install it can I ask it why nothing ******* works properly with my 5080?

I was waiting for a post like this to come along..

 

[Dicehunter]

So this is why nothing works in Nvidia gaming software anymore. They're wasting resources playing around with pointless AI toys that have nothing to do with a gaming GPU. Makes sense now we're living in clown world.

If I install it can I ask it why nothing ******* works properly with my 5080?

To be fair just like Chat RTX, Broadcast etc... it's an optional download within the Nvidia App.

 

[no_1_dave]

That video is hard to watch... It bugs me that he keeps leaning towards the mic as though it won't hear him. I can't stop thinking about it every time he demonstrates telling it to do something, to the point it's all I'm thinking about and then I miss whatever it is he's showing us

 

[Neil79]

NVIDIA GeForce Vulkan Developer Driver 572.91

https://developer.nvidia.com/downloads/vulkan-beta-57291-windows

Driver date 25/3/2025

So pretty new, and Vulkan drivers are usually as good as the Studios

 

[Sin_Chase]

So it seems there is an issue with Blue Screens and playing DRM protected content. Think Netflix, Sky Go etc.

My use case and what seems to be featuring with others is:

5000 Series Card
Display Port 2.1 Monitor
Connected via DP2.1 Cable and in 2.1 mode

The second I load Netflix.com in a browser or open Sky Go App (Both use DRM technologies) I get an immediate Blue Screen quoting nvlddmkm.sys - PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

I've had a fresh rebuild and used various driver revisions with the same outcome.

There is talk that GSYNC and/or secondary displays may play a part. Some report disabling GSYNC or connecting additonal monitors vua HDMI instead of DP helps but I've yet to have time to test this.

Interested to hear if others with 5000 series cards on a 2.1 monitors have similar issues or not.

 

[wunkley]

So it seems there is an issue with Blue Screens and playing DRM protected content. Think Netflix, Sky Go etc.

My use case and what seems to be featuring with others is:

5000 Series Card
Display Port 2.1 Monitor
Connected via DP2.1 Cable and in 2.1 mode

The second I load Netflix.com in a browser or open Sky Go App (Both use DRM technologies) I get an immediate Blue Screen quoting nvlddmkm.sys - PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

I've had a fresh rebuild and used various driver revisions with the same outcome.

There is talk that GSYNC and/or secondary displays may play a part. Some report disabling GSYNC or connecting additonal monitors vua HDMI instead of DP helps but I've yet to have time to test this.

Interested to hear if others with 5000 series cards on a 2.1 monitors have similar issues or not.

As I'm not a fan of current Nvidia drivers (see my previous posts) and I have a v similar setup (5080, 2 displays main one via DP 2.1, other via DP) I thought I'd give this a go.....

Shock horror, seems fine! Just tested Netflix. This is with Gsync on on main monitor too.

 

[humbug]

So this is why nothing works in Nvidia gaming software anymore. They're wasting resources playing around with pointless AI toys that have nothing to do with a gaming GPU. Makes sense now we're living in clown world.

If I install it can I ask it why nothing ******* works properly with my 5080?

But if we shut up about it then how can we reprogram you in to liking it?