Nvidia used to have a reputation for producing stable and reliable drivers. Unfortunately, that reputation has taken a beating since the launch of the RTX 50 series thanks to a number of persistent issues. Nvidia has released a new hotfix for another try at finally resolving them.

GeForce driver hotfix 576.26 includes more than 17 fixes that have been added since the last stable driver release. The hotfix seems to focus on problems affecting the RTX 50 series and includes several fixes for crashes involving many AAA titles, such as Black Myth: Wukong, Forza Horizon 5, and Horizon Forbidden West.

Also included in the hotfix are fixes for monitor problems, such as flickering when using DisplayPort 2.1 mode, blank screens affecting LG monitors in HDR mode, and a problem impacting those who use more than one monitor, which causes ‘grey screen crashes’.

GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 576.26 patch notes

The full list of issues addressed by the hotfix is as follows:

• [RTX 50 series] [Black Myth]: The game will randomly crash when Wukong transforms [5231902]
• [RTX 50 series] [LG 27GX790A/45GX950A/32GX870A/40WT95UF/27G850A]: Display blank screens when running in DisplayPort 2.1 mode with HDR [5080789]
• [Forza Horizon 5]: Lights flicker at nighttime [5038335]
• [Forza Motorsport]: Track corruption occurs in benchmark or night races. [5201811]
• [RTX 50 series] [Red Dead Redemption 2]: The game crashes shortly after starting in DX12 mode. No issue in Vulkan mode [5137042]
• [RTX 50 series] [Horizon Forbidden West]: The game freezes after loading a save game [5227554]
• [RTX 50 series] Grey screen crashes with multiple monitors [5239138]
• [RTX 50 series] [Dead Island 2]: The game crashes after updating to GRD 576.02 [5238676]
• [RTX 50 series] [Resident Evil 4 Remake]: Flickering background textures [5227655]
• [RTX 50 series] Momentary display flicker occurs when running in DisplayPort 2.1 mode with a high refresh rate [5009200]

This Hotfix driver incorporates the fixes introduced in the previous GeForce Hotfix v576.15.:

• [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 the 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 Standby can result in a 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]

Further information can be found on the official Nvidia support website.

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