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

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Another day, another driver, and sometimes the solution is worse than the problem it's aimed at solving, as NVIDIA's recent driver issues continue.

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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.
 
Grimlakin said:
If amd released a 9090 xtx with 24 or more gigs of vram that had better raster and on par rt with a 5080 I would buy it. Period full stop.
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Me too. The 9070XT leaves a little to be desired. Which is why I'm eyeing a 5080 for my next build, even at the stupid prices. I think it'll last longer than the 9070XT.
 
Grimlakin said:
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.
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Probably sampling bias; Nvidia outsells AMD in GPUs to such an extreme (like 10:1?) that there's simply much more opportunity to encounter issues; and that's if they're both introducing problems at about the same rate.

For another perspective, I've had two (!!!) successive review sample 5700XT GPUs self-delete. Also had an RX460 that would crash Photoshop, of all imaginable issues - and that was corroborated by reviewers at the time across multiple AMD GPU generations.

But I also have an RX6800 in my HTPC, which admittedly does not see creative work, that has not given me any real issues.
 
Riccochet said:
Me too. The 9070XT f a bit leaves a little to be desired. Which is why I'm eyeing a 5080 for my next build, even at the stupid prices. I think it'll last longer than the 9070XT.
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may want to hold of as rumours about 5080 and 5070 supers have started floating around, mostly about more memory
 
I'm not playing the wait-and-see game anymore. If/when a 5080 Super drops it'll be **** near impossible to get one for months anyways.
 
I might include it in a news roundup but I saw that another rumor about a 24GB SUPER is floating around. Honestly, I feel it's all but a given since it technically already exists as a cutdown 5080 in laptop form.
 
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