NVIDIA Releases Another Driver to Address Black Screen Issues, Only to Introduce a Potentially Hardware-Damaging Issue Requiring a Hotfix

I'm not sure what they'd gain by intentionally breaking cards that are all still under warranty.
 
Dude... J2C really had a full on rant at the end of his video. Just watched it. I feel lucky I didn't go in on a 5090 **** the costs. It would be SO pissed dealing with these successive driver and other issues.
 
It's funny for all the bad talk about AMD video drivers... I've had more issues over the years that are catastrophic requiring even reverting to a previous state of windows just to boot than I've ever had (knock on wood) with AMD drivers. Maybe I'm lucky or my timing on switching between AMD and Nvidia for my video card solutions has just been good for AMD. But I've never seen the rampant non function type of issues on AMD drivers that I have seen and helped people work around/solve on Nvidia based solutions.
 
I only experienced the past AMD issues back before them when it was ATI Radeon and that was brief due to the last GPU I dropped in my old Pentium IV build (still have in the closet-a lot of good times with that rig). Those drivers were a bit troublesome with games that had previously been stable with my NVIDIA cards before it. It was somewhat ironic too with that card since it was significantly more powerful than all before it.

I've mostly done alright with NVIDIA drivers except for when HDR started becoming more of a thing, also right around/after when Windows 10 came out, and it was close to six months before things seem to stabilize. So far though, 2025 has not been a great year for team green. I recently, by via purchasing a prebuilt with one, got a nice RTX 5090 and got a taste of this driver stuff but more specifically the temp sensor issue. Thankfully since I was doing extensive testing my eyes rarely left the MSI AB overlay and I noticed right away when things we not right. I tested this hotfix a bit last night and so far, so good.

It's a bummer and I seriously wonder if an intern got put in charge of the consumer GPUs recently. It's just sort of baffling the things have been going for the last couple of years.
 
Got a new monitor and after having zero issues with Nvidia drivers previously I now have issues with the new monitor. Now I see where the frustration has come from from other users.
 
Of course they got problems, people buy their cards pretty much no matter what, so no matter what is what you get.
Also still waiting for those AMD killing discounts everybody says Nvidia will do if AMD puts out a seriously competitive product... News flash, discounts aint coming, ever.
 
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