News Game developers urge Nvidia RTX 30 and 40 series owners rollback to December 2024 driver after recent RTX 50-centric release issues

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And Intel driver's have gotten quite good.

Just had a friend build around an A770. Aside from the driver install issues and first launch performance on several titles, he is happy with the performance for the money.
 
I noticed the issues starting on my 4090 on the driver at the beginning of March (and this is after also doing a clean install with DDU). Similar issues would occur with the March 18th driver as well (after a clean install and a DDU clean install).

However, the driver from the end of February 2025 (572.60) hasn't caused any issues on my setup. But if you're currently on a March driver, you'll probably have to use DDU before installing the February 27th driver. Just be careful and ensure that you don't delete the AMD folder by mistake if you do use DDU and currently have an AMD CPU. Otherwise you'll definitely face CPU chipset driver headaches in the future lol
 
Radeon 6700 XT and 6750 XT for my wife and son are working great in inZOI. In fact, it's a surprisingly stable game considering it just launched in Early Access, so it's too bad that nVidia had to taint that for their customers.

thats not actually suprising those gpus are close to ps5 and xbox x specs. which also run on rdna 2 the xboxs and ps5 are just kneecapped versions of those cards
 
correct.

as someone who has owned both team red and green gpus, even recently, the gpu driver stability issue is 100% a myth. both team green and team red gpu drivers appear to be about the same in my book for stability baring some weird bug like nvidia is going through the standard behavior of both companies drivers is pretty similarly stable.
True.

Well if you want more stability, you can try Nvidia Studio Driver / AMD Radeon Pro driver. I haven't had any issues since i installed Radeon Pro on my RX 6950XT (it's been about 2 years now). The downside is, of course, you can't install Radeon pro on lower model gpus like RX 6600 or lower. While with Nvidia GPU, you can even install studio driver on a GPU as low end as a GTX 1650.
 
I'm using RTX 4090 and I had to go back to the latest 2024 drivers, every driver for the 5xxx series effes up my computer. But i get some error messages in some games like GTA V Enhanced that i can't play unless i install the latest drivers.
 
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Of course the irony is bitingly funny after hearing the same shtick about drivers for years.
It isn't super funny if you just sunk 4 digits on a GPU and find the thing black screens or stutters because ngreedia doesn't seem to care about gaming anymore.
 
correct.

as someone who has owned both team red and green gpus, even recently, the gpu driver stability issue is 100% a myth. both team green and team red gpu drivers appear to be about the same in my book for stability baring some weird bug like nvidia is going through the standard behavior of both companies drivers is pretty similarly stable.
The only differences I've experienced is that nVidias features are usually more baked in. AMDs vsync is still spotty and various combination of features break things. Super Scaling with Anti-Lag, stuff like that.

Stability wise AMD is rock solid and has been for quite some time.
 
So far I've had 1 BSOD and 1 count of video freezing on this driver.

The former may have been irrelevant (unstable DRAM voltage). I didn't check logs at all
 
The new Yakuza game and Armored Warfare have also this issue and have told people to roll back the drivers to anyone with a 30+ series GPU.
Nvidia made an absolute mess with this release and i wish journalists would make nvidia more accountable of the fact that they didn't even acknowledge it, even if nvidia themself are, by various dev words, investigating on it.
 
So funny to see AMD users wiping out 15 years of history because an Nvidia driver series has issues. That's the first time in 20 years that I have problems with an Nvidia driver.

With Nvidia now focusing on AI, this situation might become the new normal, but it doesn't change the past.

I have had more issues with Nvidia drivers, than I have AMD the past few years. My RX 6800 has been rock solid for almost 4yrs. Same cannot be said for my former 1660ti equipped laptop, my current 4060 equipped laptop, or my assortment of Nvidia workstation cards, in my systems at work.
 
4090 here. On 570 series and Win11 24H2 I get a black screen at boot up ~ 75-80% of the time. It takes a hard power cycle and luck to get the Windoes login screen to display.

Also, immediately reboot if I have either a vive og or pimax 8kx connected when steamvr launches. Quest3 via virtual desktop works fine with steamvr.
 
Well then, I'm glad that I don't update my drivers very often. Round about last December was probably my last update. I couldn't care less about games, but system stability and video rendering mean everything to me. I don't think December is where stability is located though. I've had issues on 2 systems for much longer then that with the mouse pointer locking up on system boot and these large black squares surrounding my desktop icons. That issue lies somewhere between Garbage 11 and Nvidia to be sure! No amount of uninstall/reinstall can fix it.

It's all new and improved..... and now nothing works!
 
NVIDIA hate needs to stop. Why can’t people understand that, with their business elsewhere, they release graphics cards and drivers as a charitable service to the public? Their cards work part of the time, and for that, we should all kneel in awe, as before the manger in Bethlehem. I’m mailing them $20,000 right now just to show my support in this, their hour of need.
 
If this was a once off fluke bad driver I would just pass on this thread but this is a trend I see and have experienced with Nvidia over the years.

Most people upgrade from a generation or two back and keep current on having latest GPU's.

Most of the time we take the new shinny GPU's and judge against our old card and see the older card now sucks. Fair enough.

Every time a new series of GPU's hit the market the new latest drivers for our older cards remove performance. Not enough to notice off the bat unless your paying attention were to busy shooting for the new card.

Roll back a driver or two and your old card is running fast again.

Now it seems not only slowing the old card down but in some cases breaking cards performance usability.

I don't blame the gaming industry calling this out .



It was about five years ago we talked about this on the forum.

Long story short. Stick with older drivers until the 5000 series settles down.
 
May sound crazy, but I'm still using 560.94 with my 3080 Ti. I can't even remember when that came out...

When I try newer drivers I'm more prone to problems, and talked to a lot of other people on techie/gaming Discord channels that have had problems on newer drivers too. I suggest they try the ver. I'm using and their problems almost always go away. Obviously this is for non- 50XX cards, and I have no idea if this crap ever got resolved and I could jump up to something more recent, but whenever I try, I end up back at the beginning again... 🙁

For me, that's on a Win10x64 machine. Also, for the record, yes I've done clean installs, and tried completely ridding my entire system of anything Nvidia related. No go.
 
I have none of these problems on my 3060 with latest drivers.
Same here. Though, that being said, I'm on Linux, and it seems like we never have even half of the problems that come with the Windows driver. Sure, we don't have all of the useless AI related bells and whistles, but none of that is necessary. This is just one of the many reasons why I dumped Windows nearly 20 years ago. And now that we have Proton, I have even less incentive to ever go back.
 
Same here. Though, that being said, I'm on Linux, and it seems like we never have even half of the problems that come with the Windows driver. Sure, we don't have all of the useless AI related bells and whistles, but none of that is necessary. This is just one of the many reasons why I dumped Windows nearly 20 years ago. And now that we have Proton, I have even less incentive to ever go back.
I have two Windows and one Linux system, all with a 3000 or 4000 card (3070Ti on Linux, laptop 4060 and desktop 4070Ti on Windows). None of them has any issues on the latest drivers, nor does any card from anyone I know. Yet, every time I try to touch an AMD driver I get nothing but issues, from instability to the driver killing itself out of nowhere, but of course, my experience (and that of everyone else I know, and thousands or millions of Nvidia users worldwide) doesn't count, because AMD always good, Nvidia always evil.
 
Just to throw in another possible issue with the new NV drivers; My new PC has a 4070 Super and I have moved to the "dark side" (as my son calls it) by using an i914900F - so here's what happened.
Installed the 572.83 drivers to play HL2 RTX Demo per the games instructions - it wouldn't load/play with the 566.36 drivers- and the game looked and played great. But, if I quit the game and went back to the desktop Then let the monitors go into sleep mode, the monitor would not/could not be awakened, even though music or other programs were actively running; could not get into the system nor wake them regardless of what I tried - only solution was a hard shut down. I have gone back to the 566 drivers and all seems to be well. Strange indeed. Hope NV gets it fixed and that those using AMD don't run into this problem- or any others.