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What problems do you have with your Nvidia GPU?

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Post driver, what issue, and what hardware. Lets keep this going and see how many issues there are. If you have fixed an issue, posted "fixed", if still unresolved, post "unresolved". if you have no issues post "no issues".

RTX 4050

Nvidia Driver 576.02

Windows 11

No issues, no black screens, no game issues.
 
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RTX 5080 FE

Nvidia Driver 576.52

Windows 11

No issues, no black screens, no game issues; same as it has been for me the last decade and a half of Nvidia cards.
 
Gainward RTX 5090 Golden Sample.

Latest Nvidia drivers 576.52 I think.

No issues except less performance in Steel Nomad compared to .28 drivers released 2 cycles ago.

Problem is only with certain games but these are known issues.

Stalker 2 latest patch crashes with FG and .28 drivers
Doom Dark Ages needs latest driver to not have graphical corruption using DLAA and FG
.40 drivers had some undervolt instability when running modern games like Black Ops 6 crashing to desktop with DX error

In order to avoid all the above issues you need to use .52. I get no black screen, can play for hours, managed to finish Stalker 2 also. So I am sticking with these and only using .28 for benchmarking.
 
3080Ti FE
3070Ti FE
576.52
No Issues with either card
 
RTX 5090 FE
RTX 4070 Ti
Driver 575.57
FreeBSD 14

Driver is almost completely broken for the 5090, whereas my experience with the 4070 Ti has been more or less flawless during the time I've had it. I am making this post on my phone since I can't even use a browser on the 5090...

For those who don't know, FreeBSD receives official drivers from Nvidia, so that isn't the issue. I use X11, so no idea how the situation is for Wayland. Tried the bleeding edge driver out of desperation, no joy.
 
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4090FE with zero issues.

The only real problem I have with Nvidia GPUs is not being able to pop over to Best Buy and pick up a 5090 FE for $1999.99.

No way am I paying $3000+ for an OEM 5090 model just to get a ~20% bump in performance over my 4090.
 
Supercharged_Z06 said:
4090FE with zero issues.

The only real problem I have with Nvidia GPUs is not being able to pop over to Best Buy and pick up a 5090 FE for $1999.99.

No way am I paying $3000+ for an OEM 5090 model just to get a ~20% bump in performance over my 4090.
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For me it was a 30% jump minimum with best cases around 35% average. With the heavy overclock I have in games I play I am seeing even 35% routinely with up to 40% on high side.
 
RTX 4090
Driver 576.40
Windows 11 Pro

No driver based issues, though I'm dealing with the minor issue at the moment with the NVApp and Shadowplay and bitrate settings not sticking. It was supposed to have been fixed in the last NVApp update, and its also on the list of "fixes" for todays NVApp update. We'll see later.
 
RTX 5080
Latest Driver (576.52)
Windows 11 Pro

Had some weird problems (black screen, etc.) with the first 5xxx driver iterations, nothing notable now though.
 
KickAssCop said:
For me it was a 30% jump minimum with best cases around 35% average. With the heavy overclock I have in games I play I am seeing even 35% routinely with up to 40% on high side.
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Doubt I'd see that large a jump in that my 4090 is also waterblocked and solidly overclocked. Would also have to buy a new waterblock to keep a 5090 in my loop, so there's that hassle and the added $250+ on top as well as potential power cable issues, not to mention all the driver problems that still seem to be plaguing the 5090 series. Even a 30% jump just wouldn't be all that spectacular... Just makes more sense to me to skip the 5090 (at the $3k+ price point) and see how the next gen performs in another 12-16 months before actually sinking that much cash into upgrading to something new.
 
Of course you can always skip a gen. It wouldn’t matter if that is how you want to play your games.

For me, I need to maximize 4K max settings max everything and get max fps out of it. So I will keep chasing performance and am ok paying a small premium as I never revisit games so it is important that when I play, it is best case scenario at that time for me.
 
KickAssCop said:
Of course you can always skip a gen. It wouldn’t matter if that is how you want to play your games.

For me, I need to maximize 4K max settings max everything and get max fps out of it. So I will keep chasing performance and am ok paying a small premium as I never revisit games so it is important that when I play, it is best case scenario at that time for me.
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In summary, you're just a bit [H]arder than I am. :D
 
RTX 4080 FE
576.52
Windows 11 Pro

Most of the major issues (black screen on boot, etc) that previously caused me to stick with 566.36 for a very long time seem to be resolved. Most of the issues I still have are related to G-Sync.

Main issue:
-Sometimes I start a game and G-Sync simply won't work - the monitor will stay at it's maximum refresh rate as if G-Sync was disabled. Usually if I quit the game, manually reset the video driver, and launch the game again, the issue will be resolved.

I'm not 100% sure but I think that this is related to what I have going on on my secondary monitors. If something on one or more of my secondary monitors is using GPU acceleration, even something mundane like a Youtube video that is using the GPU Video Decoder, then the problem will be much more likely to occur.

Secondary issue:
-When I'm playing a game on my main monitor (DX12 in a borderless window), when G-Sync is working, and I click on something on one of my secondary monitors, the game on my primary monitor will decrease it's FPS to 10 FPS. FPS goes back to normal once the game is the active window again.

It's possible that one or both of these issues that I'm having is related to my monitor and the fact that it has a hardware G-Sync module. It's a Dell/Alienware AW3821DW, a 38" Ultrawide that I still love, but it's a somewhat older model at this point and actual hardware G-Sync Models have mostly fallen out of favor. It might be that NVidia simply isn't doing as much quality-control testing with hardware G-Sync modules anymore.
 
RTX 5090

Nvidia Driver 576.52

Windows 11

Random square artifacts that appear in indoor areas in BF2042. That's it.
 
Black Screen Random on Desktop and Gaming with fans at 100 percent. Trying to fix with a new GPU cable. Since Cablemod said it fixes the problem on reddit. I already changed out DP cable but it happens on my primary display DVI DP adapter. Don't use Nvidia App it's buggy crashes happen more frequently with it.
 
var0 said:
RTX 5090 FE
RTX 4070 Ti
Driver 575.57
FreeBSD 14

Driver is almost completely broken for the 5090, whereas my experience with the 4070 Ti has been more or less flawless during the time I've had it. I am making this post on my phone since I can't even use a browser on the 5090...

For those who don't know, FreeBSD receives official drivers from Nvidia, so that isn't the issue. I use X11, so no idea how the situation is for Wayland. Tried the bleeding edge driver out of desperation, no joy.
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You try switching out cables? I read that people on Reddit fix their FE problems with a gpu cable switch.
 
OK was wondering why Desktop was washed out as usual. I had this bug for 15-20 years. I delay boot in the Bios.
 
Not had any proper problems in all these years. Honestly, I'm truly struggling to think of anything, but this is largely due to me not really playing all the latest games all the time, and not buying new hardware on day 1.

Can someone jog my mind with anything? 🤔

The only problem I had recently was with my 5090 when I first got it, the screen would occasionally blank out and come back. Turned out it was a dodgy hdmi cable.

Last software/driver related problem I can actually remember right now was back when the original GRID came out and the latest driver made the exhaust pipes look slightly different on my 8800 GTS 512. It was fixed within a few weeks. :ROFLMAO:
 
4080S
572.42
Win 10

Had some graphical issues in Doom DA but that's likely due to the older driver version.
 
OK just crashed with South of Midnight a Xbox developer game. I'm using older set of Drivers like two sets back. The only thing I really changed was I updated Windows last week to the latest build Win 11. It could be Svid Behavior I switched to lower temps guess I'm not Gaming today. I even have XMP disabled. This is why I placed a order for a new GPU cable today crosses fingers.
 
OK just read that someone fixed their problem in COD by not having a Dual Monitor setup I just unplugged my Ancient Monitor I'll see how that goes =)
 
That seems to have fixed it Multimonitor support is Borked with the Nvidia Drivers convergence issues.
 
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Going to try this out once changing the sequence where the Main Monitor is plugged in for a multimonitor setup. Going to plug in my gaming monitor closest to the MB.

Update: This does work just have your main monitor where Windows boots up plugged into the closet slot avoid slot #3 Then again I didn't game for a good hour just 20 minutes. I played South of Midnight for about two hours no crashes.
 
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Comixbooks said:
You try switching out cables? I read that people on Reddit fix their FE problems with a gpu cable switch.
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Not yet, but I did try all the ports on the card. As for the power cable, I mean, I run into issues basically idling on the desktop with a single monitor. Also tried dropping the resolution and refresh rate. Seems to be software/drivers. I feel kinda stuck. Guess I will just have to wait for a hotfix.
 
RTX 3070
RTX 3060ti
RTX 3060ti

All up to date on drivers and have not had any issues with them at all.

GTX 960 (2GB) - had no idea that I still had this in the wife's computer and have no idea what driver it is on, but still chugging along.
 
RTX 4090 + 3090 as an AI accelerator
No issues on 561.09
With Blackwell drivers I had numerous issues like black screens when changing resolution, enabling/disabling monitors, Windows not starting with specific monitor configurations which 'valid' monitor config (which monitor connected to which port and on during boot) and funnily enough it changed between driver versions. So like to boot to Windows I would need to enable specific monitor and disable second one and after driver installation with supposed stability fixes I had to swap which monitor is enabled during boot... incredible really!

Recently no issues with resolution changing on 576.xx but all these drivers caused crashes in Fortnite.
And if I connected USB headset then computer would crash... or hibernated/sleep computer when game was running it wouldn't wake up with my applications still open 🫨
Testing 572.16 (first 5090 driver with DLSS override working) and so far ok in Fortnite but it is too early to say if this driver will be as stable as older ones. I want DLSS4 in Fortnite so I might need to test bunch of early Blackwell drivers before they screwed things completely.

Also where it comes to 3090 - for a time I used it as desktop monitor. Don't have specific driver versions but after installing some drivers I started having issues with performance when playing higher resolution videos or when using RTX Video Super Resolution. It all worked fine with older drivers but after certain driver version I randomly started having severe performance issues playing higher bitrate/resolution videos and also when using RTX Video Super Resolution. I guess the cause is due to PCI-e bandwidth limitations - the card is connected via PCI-e 3.0 1x - where I didn't expect much from this configuration at first but on old drivers I had no issues during testing. 8K 60fps videos with HDR play nice and RTX Video Super resolution works even at 4K with DSR so I guess PCI-e bandwidth should be sufficient... apparently randomly on newer drivers it is not.

Overall it seems Nvidia decided to completely ruin reputation of their drivers.
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I used Radeon 6900XT for more than two years and had almost no issues and the issues I had were due to rather hard overclocking. Previously I had RTX 2070 which would evetually two separate times develop issues where desktop would get more and more stuttery and I had to restart the driver - where even installing previous driver versions didn't help and only reinstalling Windows would. Funnily enough I still use the same Windows version which I installed on previous mobo/cpu with RTX 2070 and used 6900XT on all that time... which alongside having two RTX cards doesn't help stability BUT: if the damn config works fine on old 561.09 driver then not only it tells me my Windows install and the whole PC (note: my 13900KF is totally fine as far as its silicon degradation goes) is fine and the configuration I use is also fine. The newer drivers are total and utter BS. Older drivers which I used on 2070 - had some issues but other than the beforementioned issue they were fine.

p.s. I did try DDU for the issue I mentioned for 2070. Heck, the issue happened the same day I tried using DDU just to check how it works. In fact I assumed DDU flocked my system. Just after some time on new Windows install just before I changed to 6900XT I started having first signs of the same issue. The way it worked was that games would work fine but desktop would be choppy in a strange way that the more I used it the more choppier it would get but also after days/weeks the issue would start happening quicker forcing me to restart driver more often... really strange issue which at the time I have never seen described. Not sure what could cause it and unless I experience it again I don't really care. It did show me that Nvidia drivers are not as bulletproof as people said they were.
 
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