NVIDIA has released a hotfix to the current GeForce 576.02 WHQL driver that has been plagued by several issues. Among these issues is a bug that incorrectly displays the temperature of all GeForce RTX series cards.
The myriad of problems with GeForce 576.02 driver have been a source of displeasure and unhappiness among gamers, with the temperature bug being a top complaint. One Reddit post by user fricy81 said that the bug potentially causes overheating during gaming and other GPU heavy workloads.
This hotfix addresses the following:
-
[RTX 50 series] Some games may display shadow flicker/corruption after updating to GRD 576.02 [5231537]
-
Lumion 2024 crashes on GeForce RTX 50 series graphics card when entering render mode [5232345]
-
GPU monitoring utilities may stop reporting the GPU temperature after PC wakes from sleep [5231307]
-
[RTX 50 series] Some games may crash while compiling shaders after updating to GRD 576.02 [5230492]
-
[GeForce RTX 50 series notebook] Resume from Modern Standy can result in black screen [5204385]
-
[RTX 50 series] SteamVR may display random V-SYNC micro-stutters when using multiple displays [5152246]
-
[RTX 50 series] Lower idle GPU clock speeds after updating to GRD 576.02 [5232414]
Initially believed to be tied to the “NvAPI_GPU-GetThermalSettings” API interface, Alexy “Unwinder” Nicolaychuk, creator of MSI afterburner and Riva Statistic Server, said taht the bug stemmed from the driver itself and that rebooting after sleep was the only fix, before NVIDIA launched hotfix driver 576.15.
In gaming, the GeForce 576.02 driver could lead to certain titles crashing, be it during the compilation of shaders, or with a display shadow flicker occurring before the crash. For this writer, the driver caused games like Monster Hunter Wilds to crash consistently until a rollback to driver version 572.83 fixed it.
You can find the hotfix 576.15 driver on the NVIDIA support page.
(Source: NVIDIA, Videocardz, Reddit [1] [2])
