A hot potato: Black screens of death and instability of the system always affecting the GEFORCE RTX 4000 and RTX 3000 graphics card owners, some game developers now advise users to avoid the latest NVIDIA drivers or to return to the December version.
Since updating the 572.xx pilots of Nvidia, several users of the RTX 40 and 30 series have encountered problems with new games, especially Inzoi And The first Berserker: Khazan. Problems include accidents, frosts, stuttering and sudden framework.
Inzoi developer, Krafton Last driver 572.83The same pilot could cause frame drops and stuttering when reading the game on a RTX 40 card.
As such, he recommends using the pilot Version 566.36 from December 2024. All owners of the RTX 30 series who have problems are also recommended to use the Older driver version.
The first Berserker: Khazan Neople developer wrote an identical recommendation in his notes for the best gaming experience.
The fact that the developers of two very large recent games were forced to issue these warnings illustrates how the problems have become widespread.
It was in February that we have heard of the problems for the first time of the Cards of RTX 50, 40 and 30 generations of Nvidia, the Blackwell line being the most affected. They seemed to come from the release of NVIDIA driver 572.16, which allowed the management of RTX 50. It was reported that some users went around the problems by capping the cooling rate of their screen at 60 Hz.
One person wrote that the return to driver 566.36 was the only way to solve problems with an impact on their Asus RTX 4070 TI Super Tuf card, whose symptoms included Cyberpunk 2077 crushing its entire PC.
Nvidia confirmed that he was investigating problems and would publish updates to the pilot to remedy it, several have since been expelled. Although they seem to have solved most of the problems with an impact on the RTX 5000 line, they were not as effective for older graphics cards. This has led to several users Accuse nvidia to prioritize your latest cards while ignoring the problems affecting the Lovelace and Ampère series.
Without a sign of correction on the horizon, those with previous generation graphics cards that encounter problems are becoming more and more frustrated.