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Nvidia released another driver this week, primarily to address issues with its new RTX 50 line of GPUs. The GameReady driver from mid-April also squashed a lot of bugs, but it seems that Nvidia kicked the nest with the RTX 50. The company is addressing issues with specific games and a weird problem with RTX 50 GPUs and certain LG displays.
Driver 576.26 is known as a Hotfix, meaning you need to visit Nvidia’s Support site to download and install—your Nvidia app sticks to the GameReady drivers, of which the latest is 576.02. Nvidia releases Hotfix drivers as needed and then wraps those fixes into the next mainstream driver update. If you’re not having any of the problems below, you can sit tight and let the Nvidia app do its thing later.
This week’s fixes address the blank screen you might encounter if you connect your LG monitor with a DisplayPort 2.1 port. The issue appears to apply to model numbers 27GX790A, 45GX950A, 32GX870A, 40WT95UF, and 27G8509A. Another fix addresses flickering with DisplayPort 2.1 and a high refresh rate. That problem isn’t tied only to LG displays. Crashes with PCs that have multi-monitor setup also get addressed.
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As for game fixes, it looks like you’ll be experiencing far fewer crashes with Dead Island 2, Horizon Forbidden West, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Wukong: Black Myth. It seems that Black Myth sometimes crashes when Wukong transforms. That’s the sort of glitch that’s going to give someone a heart attack.
Nighttime racing in Forza will be tricky no longer: Forza Horizon 5 gets a fix for lights flickering at night, while Forza Motorsport gets a fix for “track corruption” at night—and also during benchmarks.
That’s it for Hotfix 576.26, but if you missed the last one (Hotfix 576.15), check it out to see if your problem is addressed. Note that updating to Hotfix 576.26 is the way to go, as it has all the fixes from the older driver updates, including 576.15.
It’s easy to forget—especially when your gorgeous new game is a stuttering mess— just what a massive undertaking it is to build GPUs for gaming PCs. Ensuring compatibility with the myriad hardware and games out there understandably leads to plenty of bug hunting. And as annoying as these glitches are, Nvidia appears to be taking them seriously and releasing fixes regularly. That’s little consolation for Wukong players and LG display owners right now, but as they say: This too shall pass.