NVIDIA Releases GeForce Hotfix Driver 576.15 to Fix Display Crashes and GPU Temperature Sensor Problems

NVIDIA recently rolled out a hotfix for their GeForce display drivers, aiming to iron out persistent display quirks and a pesky temperature bug affecting GPUs.

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If there’s one thing NVIDIA’s had its hands full with, it’s sorting out the glitches with their RTX 50 series GPU display drivers. It’s rare to see so many hotfixes for one driver, which goes to show the software support challenges NVIDIA’s facing. To give a clearer picture, they’ve just released another hotfix, version 576.15, which tackles several problems. Among these are the pesky display crashes introduced by the original v576.02 driver and a temperature sensor bug that wreaked havoc on GPU voltages and clock speeds.

Here’s a rundown of the issues this hotfix aims to fix:

– After updating to GRD 576.02, some games may show shadow flickering or corruption [5231537]
– Lumion 2024 tends to crash on the GeForce RTX 50 series cards when switching to render mode [5232345]
– Post-sleep mode, GPU monitoring tools might fail to display the GPU temperature [5231307]
– Shader compilation crashes in certain games with the RTX 50 series after updating [5230492]
– A black screen may occur when resuming from Modern Standby on GeForce RTX 50 series notebooks [5204385]
– Random V-SYNC micro-stutters occur in SteamVR when using multiple displays with the RTX 50 series [5152246]
– Lower GPU clock speeds at idle after updating to GRD 576.02 [5232414]

We’ve been aware for some time of the display issues plaguing NVIDIA’s RTX 50 drivers, but this newly emerged temperature sensor bug was quite unexpected. It caused inaccuracies in GPU temperature readings, particularly after system wake-ups from sleep mode. Turns out, the temperature sensor would glitch after these brief power pauses, creating a headache for many users. Thankfully, this most recent hotfix addresses these issues, sparing users any further temperature sensor woes for now.

For those interested, you can grab the GeForce Hotfix driver version 576.15 and test it out to see if your display crashes or temperature sensor woes have been laid to rest.