While NVIDIA is outwardly focusing on the RTX-50 series, complaints about the current GeForce Game Ready driver version 572.XX are piling up in the background. Owners of the RTX-40 graphics cards in particular have been reporting serious problems for weeks. These range from sporadic black screens and complete system crashes to permanently deactivated displays. Despite numerous user reports, NVIDIA has yet to issue an official statement.
Game Ready Driver 572.16 has been officially distributed since January 30, 2025 – a release that was primarily geared towards the launch of the RTX-5090 and RTX-5080. On board: new features such as DLSS 4, multi-frame generation and a revised ray reconstruction. However, while these functions were optimized for the RTX-50 series, some of them appear to cause serious errors on RTX-40 cards. A look back shows: The older driver versions of the 566 series ran much more stable for many users. The current driver generation, on the other hand, apparently brings with it a rat’s tail of problems – across several GPU models.
User reports show a clear pattern
Reddit user Soctty1992 has compiled a series of reports in which users of RTX-4080 and RTX-4090 cards complain of almost identical symptoms: screen freezes, sudden system crashes, black monitors or even the complete failure of video output after a restart. A particularly vivid example: In Cyberpunk 2077, a system with an RTX 4080 reliably crashed on startup – the solution was to revert to the older 566.29 driver. Another user with an RTX 4090 described that his monitors no longer even received a signal after the driver installation – also successfully rolled back to 566.XX.
PSA: Nvidia Widespread Black Screen or Hard OS Crash Issues on 4xxx (or older) Series Cards Need To Be Widely Known & Fixed.
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DLSS 4 causing the problem?
There is currently no evidence of specific technical causes, but DLSS 4 and related new features are suspected of causing inconsistent states on RTX 40 hardware. Whether this is a resource management problem, faulty shader compilation or unstable framebuffer assignments remains an open question at present. The fact is that the affected users could only rectify the errors by downgrading to earlier driver versions – a step that simultaneously deactivates all new features. In addition to DLSS 4, this also includes updates to ray reconstruction and a whole list of newly added DLSS-compatible titles. So if you switch back to a functioning driver, you will have to do without technical innovations, which can be a disadvantage especially for current games with DLSS support.
RTX 50 is preferred – RTX 40 is left out
Many users are particularly critical of NVIDIA’s communication policy. Since the end of January – i.e. since the release of the 572 drivers – affected users have been regularly reporting their problems in forums, subreddits and on official support channels. However, instead of addressing the driver problems of the RTX-40 series, NVIDIA focused on solving a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) problem with RTX-50 GPUs – which, according to users, also took weeks.this prioritization understandably leaves many RTX-40 owners frustrated. Not least because the RTX-40 series had been on the market for less than a year before it was de facto demoted to second fiddle with the launch of the RTX-50 series.
System stability before features – a familiar dilemma
The current situation once again highlights the tension between feature updates and stability. Those who are too quick to update to new driver versions can quickly find themselves confronted with massive problems – especially if the hardware does not belong to the target platform of the new software. At the same time, there is currently no official warning or even a hotfix from NVIDIA, which puts many users in a predicament: roll back and do without new features – or continue to work with unstable systems.
Waiting for NVIDIA
As long as NVIDIA does not actively address the problem, affected users currently only have the option of reverting to older drivers – even if this means that new functions remain inaccessible. It is to be hoped that NVIDIA will release a bug-fixed driver package for the RTX 40 series in the near future. But so far there is little sign of this. Criticism in the community is increasing – and with it the pressure on NVIDIA to finally take the driver chaos seriously.
Source: Scotty1992 via Reddit
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