NVIDIA has rolled out its latest GeForce Game Ready 576.02 WHQL driver, which addresses major issues such as black screens, crashes & freezes.
Tired of All The NVIDIA RTX 50 Driver Issues? The GeForce Game Ready 576.02 Release Addresses All Major Problems,, Including Black Screens, Freezes & Game Crashes
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series launch has been plagued with various driver issues, which include black screens, random freezes, and crashes within games. These issues have been ongoing for several months, and the latest driver releases have even caused problems on older graphics cards such as the RTX 40 and RTX 30 series. Users of older graphics cards resorted to using older drivers from way back in December, while RTX 50 GPU users had to wait until now. NVIDIA also tried to issue several hot fixes to address these problems.
You can grab the NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 576.02 WHQL Driver here!
The fix comes in the form of the NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 576.02 WHQL driver release, which hosts a range of gaming and general bug fixes, including some fixes that are specific to the RTX 50 series graphics cards. These can be found below:
Fixed Gaming Bugs
- [Fortnite] random crashes during gameplay [5171520]
- [The First Berserker: Khazan] DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED Crash [5195216]
- [Star Wars Outlaws] Application will freeze after leaving the game idle for 5+ minutes [5191099]
- Game stability issues when playing games with DLSS Frame Generation + GSYNC
[5144337] - [Monster Hunter Wilds] Crash after accepting quest with DLSS-FG Enabled [5087795]
- [InZOI] Game crashes with error "GPU crashed or D3D Device Removed" [5154864]
- [Overwatch 2] Stutter when using VSYNC [5171856]
- [Hellblade 2 Senua's Saga] Increased aliasing when using TSR [5125662]
- [Hellblade 2 Senua's Saga] Crashing when using Smooth Motion [5209772]
- [The Last of Us Part 1] Crash when using Smooth Motion [5208799]
- Dithering/banding in some games on RTX 50-series GPUs [5121715]
- [Control] Flickering corruption in multiple areas [5118876]
- Stutter when using VSYNC [5202703][5202474]
- VSYNC in NVCP + frame generation causes issues in DLSS 4 games [5124816]
- [UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection] Artifacts on screen when collecting treasures [5158954]
Fixed General Bugs
- Stability issues when using Windows 11 24H2 [5160948]
- Bugcheck w/ PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (50) when playing games with DLSS 4 multi-frame generation [5144337]
- [RTX 50 series] GPUs crashes with black screen/underflow [5160845]
- [RTX 50 series] Random Black Screen issues [5090505]
- General system stability issues [4921925]
- [RTX 50 series] System hard hang with 572.16 driver loaded [5107271]
- Compute Shader related tests are failing due to "error" [4894179]
- [HWBU][DT GB202/203][LG 27GN950 Specific]: Display blacked out when applying 120Hz refresh rate [5044229]
- PC display will not wake after extended sleep time [5131052]
- Two DP output of the RTX5090 will blue screen when trying to watch protected videos [5167145]
- Black screen issue when testing 3D mark with driver 572.02 and 572.16 [5095825]
- Primary Blank display showing blank after hot plug the display in daisy chain [4978206]
- Display shows blank screen on setting RR 165/200Hz when daisy chain is enabled. [5049227]
- Second display showing blank when we apply higher RR for second display when displays connected in daisy chain [4956573]
- Primary monitor (AOROUS FO32U2P) goes blank when we HPD/power cycle second display in Daisy chain. [5075448]
- GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs crashes with black screen when playing graphically demanding games [5098914]
- RTX 50 series displays blank screens on LG 5k2k 45GX950A-B when running in DisplayPort 2.1 mode w/ HDR [5192671]
- Black screen on installing drivers and booting into Windows [5153642]
- DP2.1 - UHBR10/13.5 link rates are unstable on LGE 27GX790A-B [5080789]
- Multiple users reporting black screen issue when disable the "FCH Spread Spectrum"
settings [5204493] - [RTX 50 series] Slightly higher DPC latency may be observed on some system
configuration [5168553] - [RTX 50 series] Varjo Aero VR headset may fail to establish connection [5117518]
- Changing state of "Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area" does not take
effect until PC is rebooted [4995658] - [RTX 50 series] Display may show black screen when selecting DLDSR resolution
[5144768] - [Octanebench] Performance regression [3523803]
- [DaVinci Resolve] UI overlay in Fusion page is not displayed correctly [4974721]
Open Issues
- [GeForce RTX 50 series notebook] Resume from Modern Standy can result in black screen [5204385]
- [RTX 50 series] Cyberpunk 2077 will crash when using Photo Mode to take a screenshot with path tracing enabled [5076545]
- [RTX 50 series] Red Dead Redemption 2 crashes shortly after starting a game in DX12 mode. No issue in Vulkan mode [5137042]
In addition to the major fixes, the GeForce Game Ready 576.02 WHQL drivers also add support for the newly launched GeForce RTX 5060 Ti series graphics cards. You can check out our review here. So, for those of you who were facing problems with existing drivers, you can now try out the new release and, hopefully, everything will be resolved for you. If not, you can always comment on our articles about the issues you are facing so that we can report them directly to NVIDIA.
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