- Nvidia’s RTX 5090 and 5080 graphics playing cards are experiencing nasty points
- This may very well be tied in to the newest drivers, given issues are seemingly additionally affecting RTX 4000 GPUs
- Nvidia is “investigating the reported points” and hopefully we’ll hear extra from Group Inexperienced earlier than lengthy
Nvidia is investigating reviews of issues with its new RTX 5000 GPUs which is inflicting some graphics playing cards to crash. The problems look like occurring repeatedly for some, in quite a lot of circumstances, doubtlessly leaving Group Inexperienced with a significant headache round its new playing cards.
The troubles started when Nvidia pushed out a brand new graphics driver (model 572.16) and folks began experiencing crashes with some PC video games. After that got here reviews of the RTX 5090 misfiring badly, together with crashes taking place, or the GPU not being acknowledged by the host PC. (And even the odd story of a Blackwell flagship being bricked, however we should be very cautious round these uncommon assertions).
The issues now appear extra widespread, and are apparently affecting each RTX 5090 and 5080 fashions, with repeated crashes occurring as famous – usually freezes leaving you gazing a black display screen.
A part of the issue right here is the big selection of circumstances that these completely different issues are manifesting in. From apparently non-functional GPUs to points with multi-monitor setups, there’s a bewildering array of nuances to the person complaints from RTX 5090 and 5080 homeowners.
Nvidia advised PC Gamer that it’s now “investigating the reported points with the RTX 50-series,” and I’ve acquired a sense that this presumably deep dive into what’s happening right here goes to take a while.
Evaluation: Clear set up to treatment driver blues?
Clearly, the amount of reviews throughout the standard boards (Reddit, and Nvidia’s personal message board) has prompted Nvidia to tell us it’s certainly taking motion on this entrance. Till we hear additional suggestions from Group Inexperienced, all we are able to do is trawl by means of a complete pile of prompt fixes, a few of which work for some of us, however not for others.
Nonetheless, this may of worms does look like associated to the newest driver, an thought backed up by a scattering of reviews of issues with RTX 4000 graphics playing cards and this most up-to-date GPU driver. As PC Gamer theorizes, these gremlins would possibly pertain to outdated driver recordsdata kicking about within the background, clashing with the brand new setup someway after the person has put in this newest driver.
That’s why our sister website advises a full driver wipe (utilizing Show Driver Uninstaller, or DDU, to completely take away each little bit of the outdated graphics driver; this doesn’t occur with a traditional set up – tiny bits of driver detritus can stay) earlier than establishing your shiny new RTX 5000 GPU.
So, driver-wise, your decisions are to roll again to the earlier Nvidia graphics driver earlier than this newest launch, or do a full wipe (utilizing DDU as talked about) earlier than reinstalling the newest driver, retaining your fingers firmly crossed.
Or, simply reside together with your gaming PC as it’s – if the crashing isn’t excessively annoying in your specific case – within the hope that Nvidia deploys a hotfix quickly sufficient. It’s attainable this might occur, as one just lately arrived to unravel the crashing points with a few video games within the newest driver.
In the meantime, if you happen to’re in ‘reside with it’ mode, there are some frequent workarounds you possibly can strive that are easy and have performed the trick for some of us. They embrace turning off HDR in Home windows 11 (assuming you’ve gotten it on, in fact) and decreasing the refresh fee of your monitor to 60Hz.
The latter seems to have labored for a good few folks to resolve some, if not all, of the crashing. In order that’s one to have a shot with, positively. It may also assist to clarify why multi-monitor setups are seemingly doubtlessly extra wonky, as if there are monitor-related points within the driver, then clearly they’re extra more likely to occur in that state of affairs.
Keep in mind that as suggested prior to now, some RTX 5090 homeowners have discovered an answer in going into the BIOS and dropping down their graphics card from utilizing PCIe 5.0 to PCIe 4.0. That may imply the GPU runs slower, however not in a significant means, and if it means a crash-free expertise then clearly that’s a significantly better path ahead for now, as a short lived repair, till Nvidia comes out with its report (and hopefully a repair).
As already famous, I’ve a sense that the answer is likely to be a difficult one right here, so I’m not overly optimistic a couple of fast hotfix – however you by no means know.
