Battlefield 6 Season 4 was released yesterday, shipping with “hundreds of gameplay improvements, fixes, and individual updates” – including more polish and improvements to water-based combat and gameplay. Well, those running one of Nvidia’s latest RTX 50 series GPUs may not get to enjoy the latter if they are using the most up-to-date driver version.

EA has posted an update to address an issue causing GPU driver crashes on maps with “large bodies of water,” including the newly introduced Tsuru Reef with Season 4. The company says current data points towards RTX 50 series GPUs being the most widely affected, though not all owners are suffering. Either way, rolling back to driver version 596.49 is recommended.

RTX 50 series crashes on water-based maps in Battlefield 6

Interestingly enough, the GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.49 that EA recommends rolling back to was released on May 12 – the same date as Battlefield’s previous season launch, Season 3. While the more naval-focused gameplay in Season 4 causes problems with some graphics cards, EA says it is working on resolving the issue as soon as possible.

Tsuru Reef features large open-water areas centered around naval combat. It also introduces a new dynamic wave system, which may be one of the new features causing problems. Whether the problem is directly related to the game itself or Nvidia’s latest drivers remains unknown, but EA is working with Nvidia to identify the cause.

For reference, the most recent Nvidia graphics driver is version 610.74, released on July 7 to support DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations and Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. If the issue is indeed a driver-related one, then we should soon see Nvidia posting a hotfix to deal with the annoying Battlefield 6 crashes.

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