NVIDIA Driver 591.44 Boosts Black Myth: Wukong Performance by up to 88%

[David_Schroth]

We’re currently working on a review of MSI’s RTX 5070 Ti VENTUS PZ GPU and Rick put us on notice that the NVIDIA 591.44 driver kicked in some serious VTEC, yo, on Black Myth: Wukong. It seems possible that NVIDIA is correcting for a Windows 11 update that dropped last month where users were up […]

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[Ranulfo]

Are these drivers decent enough for older rtx users to use now?

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

So far I've only heard good things about them but I couldn't really say in regard to an older card. The majority of the positive claims seem to involve newer 50 series which had its own share of bad drivers throughout the year.

 

[Ranulfo]

I'm running 14 month old drivers on my 2060S, starting to get minor problems on some newer games. I should probably jump up to last year's Dec. drivers now at least. Getting tired of Dune Awakening telling me my drivers are out of date every launch and making click on an extra box to run the game.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I'm running 14 month old drivers on my 2060S, starting to get minor problems on some newer games. I should probably jump up to last year's Dec. drivers now at least. Getting tired of Dune Awakening telling me my drivers are out of date every launch and making click on an extra box to run the game.

I'd watch out for the early 2025 drivers. I got lucky and no problems for me but it seems like most folks were still having issues up until around August or so.

 

[LazyGamer]

So far I've only heard good things about them but I couldn't really say in regard to an older card. The majority of the positive claims seem to involve newer 50 series which had its own share of bad drivers throughout the year.

I will say that swapping out my EVGA 3080 12GB for a PNY 5080 was seamless. Nvidia had a driver update ready, so I did that after booting up, and off I went a testing.

Haven't had any issues so far to report either, other than that this card, at stock, is insanely quiet. Really couldn't expect more out of one of the cheapest 5080s available, and glad I got a chance to give PNY GPUs a look.

 

[Ranulfo]

I'd watch out for the early 2025 drivers. I got lucky and no problems for me but it seems like most folks were still having issues up until around August or so.

Yeah, I've had the drivers from Nov/Dec '24 downloaded for awhile in case I needed them. I've just been lazy since I've had no major problems. From all the bad reports I've had no desire to touch any drivers from Jan to July.

 

[Riccochet]

I will say that swapping out my EVGA 3080 12GB for a PNY 5080 was seamless. Nvidia had a driver update ready, so I did that after booting up, and off I went a testing.

Haven't had any issues so far to report either, other than that this card, at stock, is insanely quiet. Really couldn't expect more out of one of the cheapest 5080s available, and glad I got a chance to give PNY GPUs a look.

Also running a PNY 5080 that's been flawless. Super quiet, very powerful. And it's a stupidly good overclocker.