NVIDIA unreleases its latest Game Ready drivers
We just noted on X/Twitter that, for the first time in a long time, all three major GPU vendors released a graphics driver, apparently for the same games. Unfortunately, we have to take that back because NVIDIA has just withdrawn its driver.
February 26th, 11am PT Update: We have discovered a bug in the Game Ready and Studio 595.59 WHQL drivers and have removed the downloads temporarily while our team investigates. For users that have already installed this driver, or are experiencing issues with fan control, please roll back to 591.86 WHQL.
— NVIDIA
User reports around GeForce Game Ready Driver 595.59 focus on fan control and monitoring, mostly on GeForce RTX 50 series cards. Users claim some fans stop responding, custom fan curves get ignored, or only one fan sensor appears in tools such as HWiNFO, GPU-Z, and vendor utilities. Several users link it to MSI Afterburner profiles, while others say it happens even without fan control software.
A second group of complaints points to reduced boost behavior after the update. Users report lower peak clocks and suggest the driver limits GPU voltage to around 0.95 V, which caps frequency on cards such as GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090. Stability reports also appear across separate threads, including black screens, VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE, nvlddmkm Event ID 153 crashes, freezes, and hard restarts. One report describes idle desktop reboots with Kernel-Power Event ID 41 and BugcheckCode 270.
Some users report HDR signal loss on Samsung TVs and a sleep resume problem on the Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K that forces 640×480 failsafe mode until reboot. A few users claim game performance drops in Unreal Engine 5 titles and other games, and one notes Starfield problems that improve after rolling back to an older driver. There are also reports that the driver rollout briefly appeared and then disappeared in the NVIDIA App, plus a wrong driver date being shown in some cases.
We do not know which specific issue led to the driver being pulled, but the fan issues alone would be reason enough. We have also removed links from our driver post, and will add a new post or links if NVIDIA releases the updated driver. I assume that would be a (really) hotfix at this point.
Source: NVIDIA (update) , NVIDIA driver discussion
