ASUS software has issues with NVIDIA’s new drivers
Multiple ROG users report that 591.44 breaks several ASUS utilities at once. GPU Tweak III often refuses to start at all, even in admin mode and even after a clean reinstall of both the driver and the tool. I did test this and that’s indeed true. Armoury Crate loses detection of the GPU, motherboard and RAM, so fan curves, clock profiles and monitoring cannot be adjusted. Users with ROG Astral RTX 5090 and 5080 cards, as well as RTX 5070 Ti ROG Strix, are all seeing similar behavior.
Aura Sync and AI Suite 3 also stop working or show all devices as offline, which means no RGB control and no board level monitoring or tuning from the ASUS side. Some users link error reports to combase.dll crashes after the driver update. Across these reports, the common pattern is that rolling back to 581.xx or 590.xx restores GPU Tweak III, Aura Sync, AI Suite 3 and Armoury Crate detection, while 591.44 consistently reintroduces the breakage.
Source: NVIDIA Forums
The good news is that ASUS has now released an update:
v2.0.6.0
Updated to support the latest NVIDIA drivers.
You can download it from the GPU Tweak website . Just keep in mind other software has not been updated.
Game filters need the newer NVIDIA App
Game Filters and Photo Mode are another hot spot. NVIDIA published an official notice on its support site that with 591.44 the minimum supported NVIDIA App version changes, and Game Filters or Photo Mode will not work correctly on older app builds. The company now requires NVIDIA App version 11.5.420 or newer, and notes that some third-party antivirus tools or utilities can block automatic updates, so users may need to download the latest installer from NVIDIA, run it as administrator and confirm the new version number in Settings → About.
Other issues
Color handling and stability are recurring complaints as well. Several users describe pale SDR output, yellow tones shifting toward green and weaker Digital Vibrance in CS2 and other titles, often tied to fullscreen mode at non-native resolutions or higher refresh rates. There are also repeated accounts of desktop flicker when HDR and Windows 11 Dynamic Refresh Rate are enabled on Samsung and ASUS displays, continued G-Sync related black screens or VIDEO_SCHEDULER bugchecks in multi-monitor setups.
Source: ASUS GPU Tweak , NVIDIA (Game Filters)
