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A hot potato: To say the RTX 5000 launch has been far from smooth would be an understatement. Among the issues plaguing the new card have been black/blue screens of death and system instability problems. Nvidia rolled out fixes in recent weeks, but several owners of RTX 4000 and 3000 cards say their symptoms haven’t gone away, and that Nvidia is prioritizing fixing the RTX 5000 series.
It was back in February when reports of the issues first arrived. They seemed to originate from Nvidia’s 572.16 driver release, which enabled RTX 50 support.
RTX 40- and 30-series cards were impacted, but the 50-series was the worst affected. There were reports of some users getting around the problems by capping their display’s refresh rate at 60Hz, which isn’t what you want when gaming on high-end cards.
Nvidia quickly confirmed that it was investigating the issues and would be releasing driver updates to address them. Several have been pushed out since then, and while they seem to have fixed (most of) the problems in the RTX 5000 line, they haven’t been as effective for older graphics cards, and Nvidia is doing little to help.
A user on the r/hardware Reddit forums has compiled a list of posts from other RTX 4000 and RTX 3000 owners who are continuing to experience BSODs and other system issues.
PSA: Nvidia Widespread Black Screen or Hard OS Crash Issues on 4xxx (or older) Series Cards Need To Be Widely Known & Fixed.
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Post author Scotty1992 writes that rolling back to the 566.36 driver was the only way to fix the problems impacting his Asus RTX 4070 Ti Super TUF card, the symptoms of which included Cyberpunk 2077 crashing his entire PC. Unfortunately, rolling back the driver has resulted in him being locked out of certain games, such as Half-Life 2 RTX, and unable to access newer Nvidia features.
Some of the posts say the crashes – and sometimes performance dips – occur when DLSS Frame Generation is used in conjunction with G-Sync. One of the suggested fixes, other than rolling back the driver, is to use an older version of DLSS and/or disable G-sync.
In addition to Cyberpunk 2077, affected games include Alan Wake 2, God of War Ragnarok, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle – mostly demanding titles that many users prefer to play with Frame Generation enabled.
The big point of contention is that Nvidia seems to be focusing entirely on addressing the issues in RTX 5000 series cards while caring little about older generations, making no mention of RTX 40-series cards in its driver releases.
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