NVIDIA releases another GeForce Hotfix Display Driver, fixing more RTX 50 Series issues

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A week ago, NVIDIA released GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 576.15, which fixed a range of bugs and issues related to the GeForce RTX 50 Series and a GPU temperature monitoring bug. This Hotfix is built on the GeForce Game Ready 576.02 WHQL for the new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti that introduced a long list of fixes for all GeForce owners, finally responding to widespread reports of driver instability.

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This week, NVIDIA is back with GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 576.26, which fixes several game-specific issues for GeForce RTX 50 Series owners. From random crashes in Black Myth: Wukong to flickering backgrounds in the Resident Evil 4 Remake, there's also a fix for display flickering when enabling DisplayPort 2.1 mode with a high refresh rate on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.

Several GeForce RTX 50 Series owners have criticized driver stability, so it's great to see NVIDIA release three driver updates in quick succession that address and resolve reported issues. Here are the release notes for GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 576.26.

GeForce Hotfix Display Drivers are considered beta, and these changes and fixes will be integrated into the next official GeForce Game Ready driver update. Also, GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 576.26 includes the updates and fixes from Hotfix Display Driver 576.15.

This Hotfix addresses the following:

• (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 crash 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 DisplayPort2.1 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 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 Standy can result in 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)