Another Nvidia GPU driver has issues, causing up to 16% drops in performance | If you've downloaded Nvidia GeForce Game Ready driver 595.71, it could be reducing your GPU performance, particularly for overclocked cards.

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CharlieFoxxx123@reddit

For me the last driver to work correctly was 591.86, tried to update on 3 different times and on all three had FPS drops of about 15% and stutters like if GSYNC stopped working, that's on RTX 5090.

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GPU driver only increase performance for the current line of products while decreasing all previous lines. that is how it has been since the beginning. constantly making people feel the need to upgrade.

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angry_RL_player@reddit

more like an entire year straight.

when will nvidia start getting criticized for bad drivers like amd?

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Revolutionary-Bat291@reddit

You must be new to the internet if you don't think Nvidia gets criticized for having bad drivers.

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flassk@reddit

i remember an update in 2015 that bricked my windows install because it half-installed then crashed because i had more than one monitor plugged in. and apparently yes, if you only had one monitor plugged in it didn't do that.

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Plank_With_A_Nail_In@reddit

when will nvidia start getting criticized for bad drivers like amd?

We are literally all doing that now.

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flassk@reddit

trying to figure out why my screen has been loading in segments that take up roughly 1/6th of my screen and i run into this thread...

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Prunner1@reddit

They don't give a fuck since they're profiting over datacenters now.

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angry_RL_player@reddit

Well yeah they're moving to datacenters because gamers stopped showing up for them

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hackenclaw@reddit

lol, not when we got a mod in nvidia sub reddit actively trying to sweep it under the carpet.

Negative title like this one often get deleted and be asked to move discussion to driver thread that "does not" have negative headline.

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cp5184@reddit

ngredia's not a gpu company, hasn't been since 2022/2023...

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Working-Crab-2826@reddit

Last time I had an AMD GPU (RDNA2), they spent an entire year trying to fix the GPU pulling 300W in idle, and another half year or more trying to fix DX11 because they broke compatibility with DX11 for everyone else when they released the DX11 optimizations for RDNA1. Not to mention the constant driver timeout for no reason. This is all widely documented and not an isolated case.

So yeah, there’s still a long road.

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gabeandjanet@reddit

While this is unforgiveable and nvidia clearly no longer gives a shit about their reputation in the gaming market, dont compare this to amds failures.

On an amd gpu there isnt even a working driver to roll back to, they always have major problems that are never fixed

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Smagjus@reddit

Some of us are still waiting for the first working driver of 2026. So far no luck.

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Flaimbot@reddit

let's go for the hattrick

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kittymoo67@reddit

ending with all the 12v cables exploding right?

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outtokill7@reddit

An absolute blowout

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0oNunyabizo0@reddit

I’ve been have constant game crashes since their newest update. Went back to 5.81 nov4 since it’s the one that gives the most fps from what i seen and no crashes

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purpleSoapSud@reddit

Oh that would explain why my gpu kept black screening even though I changed nothing

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techretrieve@reddit

Its getting to the point where I'm not going to bother updating because Nvidia is incompetent with their drivers.

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kwirky88@reddit

I’m still running the December 2024 drivers on my 30 series card to avoid the bugs they’ve introduced never addressed since then.

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greentintedlenses@reddit

Omg I think I just realized why I always had audio issues on my old 3070 that disappeared when I got my 5070ti.

Those fuckers!

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Kweleo@reddit

Damn guess the 5060ti wasn't enough, at least it's only getting very occasional audio popping. My old 2060 had it a bit worse. Now on a new system too after the 5060ti over stressed my old mobo being only x8 trying to run on PCI-e 3

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RxBrad@reddit

That's about the time that VRR/GSync utterly broke on my 3070. Turning it on would make the screen just strobe on & off at about 30fps...

Eventually went to a 9070XT and "AMD's shit drivers". (Which are somehow now leagues better than Nvidia's)

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BrunusManOWar@reddit

Eh if you think amd windows drivers are good - check out linux drivers and radv. Valve cooked up an absolute banger, especially for anything < rdna4

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RxBrad@reddit

I actually use my 9070XT mostly in Bazzite. My PC has a Bazzite NVME and a Windows NVME. I haven't booted into the Windows one in months

And yes, the Linux drivers are actually better than the Windows drivers. Particularly when it comes to HDR + Freesync.

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YvelGY@reddit

Can you tell me which specific version of the drivers are you using? The last one really broke my 3060 I can't play anything without crashs....

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Lalaz4lyf@reddit

Same here. My 4070 laptop is on 566.36 from Dec 2024 because any newer version would lock into the lowest clock speed if it idled there for longer than a minute or two. I'm going to try a newer one soon because this driver is gated out of some pytorch features now

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Z3r0sama2017@reddit

Same but for my 4090. I tried some of the newer ones but they reduce performance and or stability in the games I do play.

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Jaz1140@reddit

It's sad that delaying windows updates and Nvidia drives updates is now the optimal strategy

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huldress@reddit

The march update seems good so far but I'm a bit worried not updating Nvidia drives will fuck something up when updating Windows.

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Strazdas1@reddit

It always was.

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PacoSkiinoff@reddit

That is exactly what I'm doing. Can't trust either of them whatsoever.

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kuddlesworth9419@reddit

I stopped updating them over a year ago now. Their drivers have been pretty shit since the 5000 series release.

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Jeep-Eep@reddit

On a related note I've been saying completely straight faced for a while that better linux drivers>the latest ML features and gigaray throw weight because MS is off in cloud cuckooland.

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kuddlesworth9419@reddit

Stuff is getting sorted out in Linux pretty fast these days. If you have a problem with a game or something related to the AMD driver it's fixed pretty fast. For Nvidia people are waiting months of not indefinitely for stuff to get fixed.

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Jeep-Eep@reddit

I mean, the driver experience on all platforms for RDNA 4 has been consistently on average better and I suspect the usual nVidia advantage there is gone for good - I think driver crown will shift from vendor to vendor on a generational basis in future (and AMD will repeat the delay launch to polish drivers and supply strategy as well).

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MumrikDK@reddit

I simply need a reason to upgrade.

If everything is fine, I'm not messing with it unless I'm already finally letting Windows Update get everything up to speed and rebooting.

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Scurro@reddit

I've been treating GPU drivers like BIOS updates.

I only update if there is a security issue, a bug, or if there is a direct upgrade in performance in the games I am currently playing.

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LipsOfAnAnus@reddit

Look Im just going to be honest here I have no buttfucking idea what any of you are talking about.

Okay?... So like...y'know...

... How do we fix this..??

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Hopeful-Vermicelli78@reddit

Exatamente quando lançaram esses drivers problemáticos, meu Acer Nitro (GTX 1650) simplesmente parou de reconhecer a placa NVIDIA e o driver apresentava erro (Código 43 e Código 45). Eu e o técnico tentamos de tudo, inclusive atualizar o driver com DDU, etc, e nada funcionou.

Será que meu problema está ligado a toda essa confusão com os drivers, ou é algo a parte? Me parece que tem a ver, porque começou a dar problema justamente há 2 semanas, quando lançaram as atualizações problemáticas.

Inclusive, depois do problema aparecer pela primeira vez, o Avast Driver Updater recomendou atualização do driver NVIDIA.

Ainda, ao usar a placa integrada da Intel, reparei que, quando eu desligo o cabo de energia, o PC começa a apresentar microtravamentos bem chatos ao reproduzir vídeo.

Tudo muito estranho e intrigante, estou quase deixando a advocacia para estudar computadores.

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HotBeginning4740@reddit

I haven't had a driver work properly for my 3070 since February 2025.
Get on my lvl.

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pinezatos@reddit

So uhm... what's the last stable release?

I'm tired of the vibe coded slop boss

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RapidXFire@reddit

I rolled back to 591.86 and that's been fine for me, I have an old af card though so your mileage may vary if you have something more recent.

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Standard-Potential-6@reddit

Before the 50-series released, sadly.

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kwirky88@reddit

And if you have a 30 series the stable release is December 2024.

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MehmetNY@reddit

Which version is it? I have an RTX 3070.

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BrownBear93@reddit

Haha I literally just updated my wifes drivers last night. I saw the Dec 2024 drivers and was like "wow so old, I should update" haha. Hopefully no issues I guesss

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gokarrt@reddit

if you play modern games, updating your drivers is almost always a better play. you're getting zero per-title optimizations if you run old drivers.

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grachi@reddit

Not really. It’s better to play the game on your current drivers and see if you have issues. 9/10 times you won’t, and the game will run just fine.

Much better than updating to the newest version just to be current, and it neuters your performance in every game or even worse , causes black screens and pc restarts randomly

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sumphatguy@reddit

Eh, I had to update drivers relatively recently for FFXIV and Marvel Rivals. The driver at the time would cause both games to crash my entire computer. Currently on 581.29 from September 2025, and while FFXIV is still fine, Marvel Rivals will occasionally crash my computer still. Too afraid to update drivers though from what I've seen since then.

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BrownBear93@reddit

Oh yeh agreed, I was also having some display issues so it was necessary anyway. Mostly funny timing

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Standard-Potential-6@reddit

That’s the one. 5090 dropped Jan 30 2025 and used the 572.16 driver.

566.xx was fairly solid, of which 566.45 from December 22nd was the last I believe?

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Runivard@reddit

The first driver that gets you DLSS 4.5, thats a definite bandaid at preset L right now

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pinezatos@reddit

Damn... that's...way back, I don't think newer games will like that

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tiradium@reddit

There are games that will refuse to launch if you have outdated drivers or they will nag you every single time you launch the game which is mildly annoying

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Z3r0sama2017@reddit

Still running December 2024 driver on my 4090💪💪💪

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__________________99@reddit

The 591 branch isn't too bad. That's not to say it isn't without some problems. But not nearly as bad as the last 2 releases.

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kamealo@reddit

Bit old but 566.36 is rock solid imo

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TechyGeoff@reddit

it completely messed up my system, thought I had a virus (never had) thank god for macrium reflect and my monthly image backup, I have a working system again

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Careful_Mulberry_339@reddit

Bit late, but not just performance, but black screen, currently working on a solution.

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Smart-Wrongdoer-30@reddit

So that was it... My PC was running like crap and I had no idea why. Version 595.79 just came out; I hope this fixes the issue

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OpenIndependent7391@reddit

Updated the driver to this date just for it to label my 2nd monitor as "NVidia NV-Failsafe". It forced my resolution to extremely small and when i tried to rollback my driver it black screened halfway through. After about 5 minutes it says it rolled back but it did not. Now I don't even have the option to rollback my drivers along with it saying I now do not have a driver installed. So I downloaded the last driver I had from the website to try to manually install it but the same thing happens. idk what to do at this point. Nvidia is a joke of a company and need to get their shit together.

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Snoo-48245@reddit

Same here I own a home cockpit and, foolishly I thought it might be something to do with my dp to hdmi adapters and replaced them to no avail when I had the idea that it might be DUMBvidia that might be causing it, tried rolling back, black screened, forced restarted, used ddu to then install the previous DUMBvidia driver and voila it worked like before. Appalling that people have to pay fortunes for a graphics card that gets shitty after sales support especially it being software based 💀

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xdominik112@reddit

Necroing old comment, just for the future to help you , if you have any driver issues boot your system into Safe Mode (with networking support, since its easier). It will load base windows drivers not vender ones so you can troubleshoot and do install and reinstall of drivers without loading them. Also for clean installs when having issues people recommend DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller). Hope you gonna have better time in the future, vendors having dogshit drivers has been a case for a while and it seems like it getting worse with time ... I thought we were past it after windows xp times...

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3Edges@reddit

I tried updating to 595.76 and had the exact same problem with NV-Failsafe for whatever reason. Rolled back to an older driver and everything was suddenly fine again.

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GiftNo130@reddit

Bro it's straight up damaged my shit, what do I do? I rolled back but games that used to be able to run fine are having performance issues and crashing now.

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Least-Lime9474@reddit

Im having black monitors and the PC still running but cannot turn on only with the reboot. had a 5070 with the 951.71 drivers and downgrade like 3 time to 576.70 and the problem persist.

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New_Highlight_6785@reddit

Hola alguien le pasa que se freshea la pantalla después de la actualización?

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Kohakuzuma@reddit

Just had to roll back to my previous driver from 5 months ago because this piece of shit driver tanked my videogame fps and made my fans go crazy. Nvidia genuinely sucks. Everytime I update a driver now I feel like I'm gambling on whether it's going to bork my PC or not.

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Laughing-Spoon@reddit

I just went back to 591.86 to fix issues. 595.71 would get these pauses and then three beeps when doing simple stuff like opening chrome and going to cnn.com

this system was only built a year ago. 64 core thread-ripper, 128GB of ram and an nvidia 5080. only after I installed latest nvidia driver did it start with that random pause, screenflash thing.

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kojake_@reddit

disgusted. Finally able to upgrade from AMD to Nvidia but it now seems its expensiver to make that difference work... asus prime 5070TI OC enjoyer here and sometimes my whole desk goes black only showing the cursor, to solve this i press windows button and open task maneger... close all nvidia executables and it restores back everything to its regular state... literally every time y tuirn on the pc i gotta do this

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Cool-Goose@reddit

AMD might actually have good drivers because they don't work on drivers wasn't on my bingo card

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Different_Frame8420@reddit

So um which driver should i rollback to? I have an rtx 5060 and it doesnt show the same fps with benchmark vids. I updated the drivers to newest automatically so I dont really know which is stable for me.

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h107474@reddit

What's the last best driver to use for my RTX 3080? I know some recommending going all the way back to 566.36 from December 2024 but man that's old. But I would rather no inherit a load of crap code intended for 50XX series cards that brings no benefit to my 3080 Ti.

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4lbertGG@reddit

I'll stick with 576.88.

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DismalRL@reddit

Goat Goated driver

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kdia62@reddit

591.74 has been super stable on my 5070. The previous update i was on the 576.88, and i only updated because marvel rivals crashed repeatedly even after a wipe

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Golemm@reddit

I waited till friday to download the new driver, and guess what, im getting the same black screens when opening chrome or edge for the first time. guess imma stay on 595.71 for a long long time

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Big-Newspaper646@reddit

is anyone elses RTX gpu just failing to wake up from sleep or on boot sometimes after these drivers?

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ViSioN_LMFAO@reddit

hey, I bought a new prebuilt a month ago and now whenever I launch chrome with hardware acceleration it restarts my pc. (I disabled it and it works fine, but I occasionally get a random restart anyways, sometimes not even from chrome). Could this be caused by the new driver version?
_I'm not that much of a tech expert so go easy on me_

I have a 5070ti

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ViSioN_LMFAO@reddit

should I revert to the previous driver? I had no issues with it (as far as I know)

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Sk1dmark82@reddit

DDU and install the January driver. I was having the same issue. Also had an issue where if I physically turned off one monitor my second monitor would disconnect. Could only run with both monitors turned on.

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Appropriate_Ad8734@reddit

guess they let AI take over a lot of the work

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WaitingForG2@reddit

https://www.techpowerup.com/346079/30-000-nvidia-engineers-use-generative-ai-for-3x-higher-code-output

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viladrau@reddit

"I love vibe coding"

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rayquan36@reddit

"Soon it won't be called generative coding or vibe coding, it will just be called coding."

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algaefied_creek@reddit

“Human coded artisanal application”

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Ok-Fly9809@reddit

Ohh hahah thank you for this

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plantsandramen@reddit

I love tools that make life easier, but not at the risk of rotting our brains. I'm hearing from the teachers I'm friends with that kids are increasingly tech illiterate, and I fear that this is another evolution of it.

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rayquan36@reddit

Sometimes I feel like I was born at the perfect time for technology, the 1980s.

Internet didn't really exist until I was in high school, cellphones weren't really a thing until I was in college and smart phones didn't exist until I had started my first job. AI (very useful tool for an old millennial like me) didn't start taking off until now as I'm naturally getting dumber.

Similarly the games industry grew with me too. 8bit Nintendo games as a kid, 16bit as a middle schooler, PSX/N64 as a high schooler, PS2 as a college kid and internet-capable games in my 20s.

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Ar0ndight@reddit

Yea I also get that vibe. I can't imagine being a teenager growing with X and Tiktok at my fingertips and now AI. Sounds very "back in my days" but I don't even mean it in a "you have it easy" way, it's literally the opposite, the worst threat to my development was... heavily curated and PG friendly TV? While kids have to walk in a minefield one wrong step away from being completely brainfucked or radicalized. By the time all these destructive apps and their algos got up and running I was an adult. And the thing is stuff like AI induced psychosis isn't even limited to younger people, so it's not like us millennials are magically immune, we just have the "least bad" odds of losing it to tech.

And it's not like parents can do much, setting up parental control on a smartphone won't save anyone.

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Admirable-Lie-9191@reddit

Hell, even as a late 90s kid I feel similar. We grew with tech in its infancy, still had to learn how to use a computer properly.

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plantsandramen@reddit

You and I are probably similar ages then, you might be a little bit older, but I had a similar experience, just shifted back a little. I was born in 88 so my first cell phone was a pre-paid phone that didn't have internet, internet was still a novelty when I was 14, and so forth.

I like having had grown up in this timeline. It was a fun experience seeing technology change so rapidly.

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BatteryPoweredFriend@reddit

Technofeudalism and it's intentional.

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Z3r0sama2017@reddit

"Why use a single line of code when you can use 3!"

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pythonic_dude@reddit

They just turned Multi Line-of-code Generation on.

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st00lphant0m@reddit

Never get high on your own supply.

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Die4Ever@reddit

What surprises me is not that they're using AI to help with writing the drivers. What surprises me is that they don't have automated tests to reject/flag PRs with performance regressions

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aintgotnoclue117@reddit

remember those supposed 'AI enhanced drivers' that would 'improve framerates by 30% in DX12' lol

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WaitingForG2@reddit

Thats for Linux, and it's still on the table

It's more like on Linux in DX12 titles there was 30% performance hit(at worst, usually less). To solve that, it was necessary to add new Vulkan extension, descriptor heap

The most recent beta driver supports it, but dxvk side has to implement it now, and that will take some time too

https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/pull/2805

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aintgotnoclue117@reddit

Nnnnooo. I mean-- Yeah. That's also a thing. But that's not what I'm talking about.

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reportedly-working-on-ai-optimized-drivers-with-improved-performance

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General-Ad-2086@reddit

I recall big copypasta-green text about top manager, that implemented AI for company and fabricated some "graphic go up!" charts for the board, to keep funding "adoption", why no one really even used ai tools they were paying for.

But looking at all that mes, maybe that green text wasn't a joke after all.

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Blueberryburntpie@reddit

Not surprised.

Meanwhile Amazon had at least two AWS outages because they pushed vibe codes directly to prod.

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RxBrad@reddit

Unironically, it really does seem like this is the case...

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James20k@reddit

I'm a developer and the current trend of AI usage is extremely funny. Its more of a symptom of how performative a lot of work has become: we pick metrics to measure how productive developers are, and AI lets you heavily optimise against those. But in terms of the quality of the resulting software, it goes right down

For a professional developer and AI generated codebase is equivalent to a classical late stage spaghetti code maintenance nightmare where absolutely nobody has any idea of how it works, and nothing can get done. The fact that these companies are trying to achieve that on purpose is one of the most hilarious trends in the software industry

The major tech companies are just being taught this the extremely hard way

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James_Jack_Hoffmann@reddit

It would be funny if it's actually trying to fix a spectre-like bug, effectively reducing performance. Let's just hope this comment doesn't age like milk.

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i_max2k2@reddit

I’m keeping my older drivers. Fck this sloppy work.

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got-trunks@reddit

They'll only start caring again once their cash cow normalizes in volume and they have to split more fab time with plebs.

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Prunner1@reddit

I think they'll get a little bit concerned when a competitor surpasses them monstruously and AI bubble explodes so they can't profit through datacenters. But then, the competitor, we all hope, will be light-years away from them, solid brand, and they'll be swimming in tech lords ashes.

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got-trunks@reddit

Well I don’t know if you know this but the us started bombing brown people with oil again and things got expensive in ways they can’t control so the bubble has been collapsing.

Texas oracle OpenAI datacenter is killed and all the other dominos can start to fall in line

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farlansangel@reddit

i went to 571 and got little freezes in games suddenly. im rolling back to 591.86 untill a stable driver comes out. i dont have a oc card so the hotfix has nothing for me. and i saw alot of issues with that too.

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Beautiful-Metal4934@reddit

So whats the solution. Happened to me, "error hung" I do a DDU wipe, roll back to an older driver. Works fine then crashes cause I don't have the newest driver!!! Which is 595.71 which i can't use and crashes almost 10 to 15 mins in a game every single time.

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LargeSinkholesInNYC@reddit

AMD will never catch up to Nvidia.

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Clutch-SGH@reddit

theres a hotfix out by Nvidia "595.76" here Game Ready Driver 595.71 FAQ/Discussion : r/nvidia. Fixed the undervolt/OC capping that i was experiencing with my 5070ti on 595.71

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Purrrception@reddit

I experienced my monitor #1 becoming a black screen but only on the desktop. Windows key still pops up like normal, plus you can even see the cursor moving around. When I click and drag in attempt to highlight thumbnails, they do appear, but for whatever reason, my screen was just black. So I went back to the Nvidia app and hit "reinstall". I went to "custom" instead of "express" and chose to do a clean install. The problem was instantly fixed. I haven't restarted my PC yet so we'll see if this remedy sticks. BRB!

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Purrrception@reddit

Issue came back after restarting PC. As everything was loading, I noticed the PC froze for maybe 5 seconds and when it came back, monitor #1 is black with the same issues as stated above.

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Purrrception@reddit

Ah back once again. So I somehow fixed the issue by just launching a game. Once the game is opened, the black screen issue just vanishes. Even when I exit the game, the desktop appears as normal. After restarting the pc this time around, no more issue. Hopefully this helps everyone.

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Embarrassed_Cat_4353@reddit

I updated to 595.71 and 3 out of my 4 monitor setup are in fail safe mode so I rolled back to 591.86 all works great.

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Mountain-Sea5313@reddit

sabes yo siento y veo a simple vista q este driver pierde un poco de calidad visual en todos los juegos , n se si alguien mas se dio cuenta de esto o soy solo yo q estoy loco ?

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AMDRADEONRUBY@reddit

And now a Hot Fix called the 595.76.

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Wonderful-Ant-3307@reddit

WITCHER 3 ON THIS driver or 595.71 crashes n keeps on crashing..just before the crash i notice that suddenly its kind of freezes a short while oin screen and then crash..

i tried driver 577.00--it was in my prebuilt Lenovo Legion T5 at purchase new from factory and it was running all older games n witcher 3 too and at a 20-30fps higer fps also..BUT with me trying to play dying light 2 The Beast an auto update said i needed a newer driver to run the game..

SO what newish driver runs all older gaems w no crashing like nvidia driver 577.00 BUT a newer for latest games?

Just starting to get to me n the need to at all times have 5-7 difference drivers downloaded always to be sure i can as fast as possible switch back again..

Its been like this since MID 2025 when i got my new Legion T5 desktop(RTX 5070) and som even worse then others

When did gaming on a new PC become a issue n only all but fun to do? was it 50seres gpus or windows 11? i ask because its always some issue with 1 or the other n sometimes both!

Thanks NVIDIA for making me pay for nothing...so this is why some went to AMD instead?

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pessimist-af@reddit

was just browsing the web when my 5090 black screened but could still see the cursor. had to rollback to january drivers to fix. not the experience i would expect for a 3k gpu.

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Key_JellyFish_02034@reddit

I installed this driver version and get black flickering screens from time to time it's annoying AF

Had to go back to 591.86

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ivR3ddit@reddit

How can I downgrade back to 581.86?

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Key_JellyFish_02034@reddit

I use this program called Nvidia App it lets you install previous driver versions

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suicidalrat81@reddit

DDU

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osintGenosha@reddit

should I update Im on 591.86

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suicidalrat81@reddit

No i had to revert back to 186

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SireEvalish@reddit

If you actually read the sources, what seems to be happening is manually overclocking the GPU through MSI Afterburner or similar programs, the OC will no longer work as expected.

What I haven't seen confirmed is the behavior stock vs. stock on different drivers.

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suicidalrat81@reddit

On my 5060 ti not OC or UV i run it stock was going from 60% GPU usage to 100% up and down rapidly every 2 seconds with my pc fans going crazy with in game fps down at least 30% with 1% low dips with stutter

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Candid-Chemist8764@reddit

whats the last stable version i hate this things

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BigChiliNuts@reddit

Did you figure out which one to get? Also wondering the same

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suicidalrat81@reddit

186

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SirMaster@reddit

This driver last night gave me a black screen on install last night. Rebooting caused hang on boot.

Had to boot to safe mode and roll back to the previous diver.

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elimi@reddit

How far back did you go?

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suicidalrat81@reddit

186

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Cubanitto@reddit

Gaming's dirty little lie, that Nvidia's drivers are always good. 🤣

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Strazdas1@reddit

Not always. Just more often than the competition.

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Cubanitto@reddit

Yeah, they must be vibe coding again.

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don_raphael@reddit

The first thing I noticed is that with 595.71 is that I would try to shut down my PC and it would immediately start back up again. Moved back to 591.86 and no issues after that.

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KennKennyKenKen@reddit

I don't usually update to the latest driver. I'm almost always a few updates behind

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MaitieS@reddit

I would love to see more than just "a youtuber" sources as I ran a benchmark on my RTX 5080, and it reaches 1.050V on default setting...

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Affxct@reddit

It’s a clock cap. So if your GPU can do +300, for instance, it offsets the V/F curve and just means you reach the same max clock but at lower power draw. At stock most cards will max out their clock in the mid-2900s with 1.03-1.05V.

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YoSaKiZ@reddit

I'm fine with 591.86.

Microsoft and Nvidia are on a race to burn our GPUs and ruin performance!

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ComfortablePlace3462@reddit

Does Windows automatically download drivers or do you have to do it yourself?

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Igotmyangel@reddit

My my my.. how the turn tables. Nvidia out here vibe coding drivers

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Dvevrak@reddit

Will Nslop be the next buzzword ? 😅

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theQuandary@reddit

Nslopification

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MumrikDK@reddit

Nvidai.

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Ripe-Avocado-12@reddit

Nslopvia

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NoxiousStimuli@reddit

Man, the N could be fucking anything.

Slopvidia.

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Dvevrak@reddit

This sounds better.

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Flaimbot@reddit

nvidAI

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starcube@reddit

That's too awkward to say.... how about AIVIDIA.

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jayiii@reddit

they would like that

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Flaimbot@reddit

unless we tarnish it with a bad connotation before they can do their own spin on it.

bad drivers? nvidAI is the reason.
you can't afford a new pc? nvidAI is the reason.
your pizza got burned? nvidAI is the reason.

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Bel-Shugg@reddit

Nslop sounds good

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Onion_Cutter_ninja@reddit

Microslop and nvidiAislop name a more iconic duo

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n0stalghia@reddit

Looking forward to when gen z finds a new suffix to attach to word

The slopslop is getting stale

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Strazdas1@reddit

slop was named word of the year last year for how common it was. People really really love slop.

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pythonic_dude@reddit

Using "gate" for everything is literally gateslop (I'm sorry).

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Flaimbot@reddit

nvidAI

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kittymoo67@reddit

slopvidia

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ijustatesome@reddit

I spent hours trouble shooting in Cyberpunk for why I'm gettings lower FPS. And it's the driver, bruh.

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Past_Apricot_3690@reddit

Do the voldtage also drop if you dont overclock you card so that only factory oc is present on 595.71?

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EdgyscreamLeague@reddit

Display stopped reading the GPU after the update . Had to connect to Integrated and uninstall. ughhh Another winner by Nvidia.

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Vatigu@reddit

oh my god this release is bad... 595.71 time spy extreme graphics score of 9317, same exact settings/OC graphics score of 25831 on 591.86

literally barely hit 60fps with a 5090 in timespy compared to usual minimum of 120+ in time spy extreme. Absolutely garbage driver release

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AnthMosk@reddit

JFC 3100mhz his 5090 runs at?!?! Must be nice

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gokarrt@reddit

the important bit of this article:

The majority of the effect appears to be restricted to when using manual overclocking tools, such as MSI Afterburner, with the core clock and voltage increases it normally opens up now no longer having the same level of effect. We're yet to verify the extent to which it affects factory overclocked or default clock speed cards.

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Interesting-Wash-893@reddit

With a good case and using an aio on the cpu My 5090 can aircool itself to about that level. I dont run it at that mhz though.

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venatic@reddit

This fucking driver almost caused a house fire because of the unregulated voltage being sent over pin 20. No joke, the plastic is warped and if i didnt unplug it, it would've full on melted down. it was too hot to remove with bare hands.

Do not install this shit unless you NEED it, even then, you're better off waiting than having your hardware nuked by shitty aislop drivers.

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jforce321@reddit

I'm just using the studio drivers because I heard theyre better.

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RoamingBison@reddit

They can't break my drivers if I never update my drivers taps head

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Electrical-Fee-9621@reddit

Watch them do the same shit for the next driver for crimson desert…

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Clean_Experience1394@reddit

People in this thread don't seem to remember all the bugged drivers pre-AI

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BellyDancerUrgot@reddit

I think it really actually started when chatgpt was launched. Nvidia likely just shifted focus away from geforce. Nvidia still does crazy cool shit for machine learning, especially hardware level optimization for edge deployments etc.

I think their focus has changed. I know a lot of engineers from nvidia and their work ethic is quite different from micromanaged engineering teams at microslop, no matter what you think of nvidia as a business I dont think their drivers being ass is because of ai slop. I could be wrong obviously, I dont work there but at least from what i have heard it's more so company direction rather than ai slop coding.

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Jeep-Eep@reddit

With the state that crap launched... frankly, major setbacks were on the table before the possibility of vibe coding only making things worse.

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Kosmos-World@reddit

Oh cool - nabbed a 5080 today for $1140 and wanted to install it for a fresh run at Requiem. I already have a 5070 ti, so it's not a big upgrade at all, and if I'm doing the math right a 5080 on the newest drivers (i.e. the Requiem drivers) taking a 16% hit to performance will roughly mean I'm getting *checks notes* 5070 ti performance. Fuuuuuuuuuun.

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timjc144@reddit

I still see people saying AMD's driver issues from two generations ago as a reason to get Nvidia, but their 5000 series drivers have had constant problems. Last two driver releases have been broken, the CPU overhead issue that I'm not sure was ever fixed, Borderlands 4 crashes, and I'm sure there's a bunch more that I'm forgetting/never heard of.

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puffz0r@reddit

So when are we going to realize that "AI AI AI" was Jensen's Don Mattrick moment? It's basically TVTVTV all over again

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flgtmtft@reddit

losing like 50% performance with my 4090 PT in RE 9 Requiem at 3440x1440 no CPU bottleneck

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akluin@reddit

That's why I waited before installing it,

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Lisaismyfav@reddit

Aaannnd AMD sucks! Nvidia is king!!

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rynoweiss@reddit

Wonder if this has to do with trying to prevent more 16pin meltdowns.

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kittymoo67@reddit

it might. they locked overclocking down before to prevent issues with their own stupidity

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Mental-Sample-6753@reddit

I updated to 595.71 and then my graphic card got wild many times i open google or some software my graphic card just totally crash does someone else have that problem

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Nicholas-Steel@reddit

Try:

Open Nvidia Control Panel
Click help
Enable "Debug Mode"

You will need to do this every time the PC is turned on, possibly every time you log in too. While active, it will remove any manufacturer overclock.

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finspro-@reddit

Not to mention this update is causing random black screens while web browsing and system crashes.

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hangender@reddit

Dam. These AI coders and quality assurance not doing so well...

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Hothacon@reddit

"Nvidia. Fuck up everything!"

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Equal-Engineer474@reddit

bu..bu... only AMD has bad drivers!

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uppercuticus@reddit

That editorialized title sure is doing a lot of heavy lifting. The new driver caps voltage and frequency so heavy overclockers are getting wrecked. Everyone else is fine though

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HiCZoK@reddit

no issues here. Better performance than on previous driver. 5080fe

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bobbie434343@reddit

What's up with the "AI coded driver" meme that popup everywhere anytime there is a driver issue, repeated over and over. Nope people, fucking Claude is not coding the NVIDIA driver just to annoy you. Not all software problems are caused by AI, LOL.

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Jon_TWR@reddit

https://www.techpowerup.com/346079/30-000-nvidia-engineers-use-generative-ai-for-3x-higher-code-output

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angry_RL_player@reddit

Don't buy nvidia guys, they have bad drivers

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TenshiBR@reddit

oh oh oh my turn!

"AND PEOPLE KEEP SAYING AMD DRIVERS ARE THE PROBLEMATIC!"

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