Can someone advise me please as I’m a bit confused with these dodgy drivers, hotfixes etc!
I’ve got an RTX 5080 and I’m on 591.86 dated 27 Jan. Is there safe available update that I should be using or am I better just leaving it for now? I only fly in VR . Thanks..
There’s really no such thing as a “safe update” when it comes to GPU drivers - there will always be some bugs somewhere, no matter the version.
If everything is currently working fine for you, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with just staying on the driver you already have installed 591.86.
For reference, I’m running an RTX 5090 and I installed the latest hotfix driver 595.76. That hotfix also improves VRR behavior and on some hardware configurations it can improve performance as well. Whether it actually improves anything on your PC though is something you’d have to test yourself.
Do you have a factory overclocked 5090? Is the factory overclock still working as expected?
I am asking, since I have a factory overclocked 5090 (to be precise a Zotac AMP! Extreme Infinity) and I am running on the performance firmware of the card and I would not wan’t that the driver caps the performance.
With both the previous driver and this hotfix, I haven’t noticed any voltage or GPU core caps - everything works fine.
This hotfix mainly addresses a bug on systems where manually overclocked cards (e.g., via MSI Afterburner) had their voltage dropped to around 0.900 mV, which lowered GPU clocks. This driver fixes that.
It didn’t affect factory-overclocked GPUs from manufacturers, like my GPU or yours. The issue was specific to manual overclocking, not factory OC.
Honestly, I wouldn’t mess with OC on RTX 50XX or 40XX - better to run stock than risk nuking GPU.
I decided to stay on previous 591.86 driver for now, as things are stable for me (5090 undervolt). I normally try updates but have learned to delay or skip Nvidia update vintages with so many reported issues.
I updated to 595.71 yesterday, with smooth motion enabled in the NVIDIA app msfs 2024 (SU4) crashes seconds after starting. Ill install the .76 hotfix and see if its fixed
If Smooth Motion is enabled, it can conflict with features like NVIDIA DLSS and Frame Generation. Smooth Motion is mainly intended for games that don’t support DLSS, so when both are active, they’re not really compatible with each other.
Smooth Motion is generally unnecessary in your case. With an RTX 4080, you can fully benefit from DLSS and DLSS Frame Generation, which are specifically optimized for RTX GPUs.
Yeah I know that it conflicts with the in game DLSS and frame gen. I don’t use the in game settings anymore because the driver level smooth motion with in game TAA gave me less ghosting/artifacts and lower frame latency
Three GA flights this morning in 24 SU4, all Carenado Cessnas, very smooth and beautifully rendered in DLSS4 310.5.3 Performance, preset M, by 595.76 (PC spec in profile). Airliners and biz jets to follow, but I had been flying those for the last week and needed that GA break which refreshes.
Well, I loaded the hotfix and survived the first flight.
This is of interest to me as I am using the ASUS canned CPU OCing and the ASUS canned GPU OCing. I can see the 5080 ramping up and could use that extra headroom…
I have been using the DEV FPS device and have decrypted its fine points so now I think I can get the Main thread and the GPU thread to be running about the same speed.