Nvidia accused of prioritizing RTX 5000 series as users report game crashes in older cards

[Theinsanegamer]

Come on guys, the 40 series is obsolete. Just buy a 50 series card.

but those dont work either....

Same issue here on my 3080 system. Black screen, won't post. It's so bad (probably due to the VBIOS on the GPU) that the 3080 won't even post anymore. Thankfully, I have a spare GTX 950, but it also black screens on the new drivers: it will only run on the generic Windows display driver.

I'm old enough to remember when AMD drivers actually bricked GPUs.

My next card is an RX 9070XT.

Does it work on the pre Blackwell launch drivers? Others have had success with that.

 

[Bruthaman90]

I'm pretty sure those reports of bugs on Nvidia drivers are fake news, perpetrated by disgruntled AMD owners, that have envy of Nvidia's perfectly stable drivers and 15x better performance on ray tracing.

I'm pretty sure those reports of bugs on Nvidia drivers are fake news, perpetrated by disgruntled AMD owners, that have envy of Nvidia's perfectly stable drivers and 15x better performance on ray tracing.

I'm pretty sure those reports of bugs on Nvidia drivers are fake news, perpetrated by disgruntled AMD owners, that have envy of Nvidia's perfectly stable drivers and 15x better performance on ray tracing.

Dude that is funny you had me busting out laughing. To be completely real though, I most recently had a 7900 XT and now have a 5080. I can say absolutely am that AMD has more stable drivers than Nvidia at this point. Way more reliable lol.

 

[texasrattler]

Uuuh, okay. But my rig with a Radeon 7900 XTX seems faster and more stable than my rig with the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, so yeah, there’s that…

And anyone could easily just say you don't know what your doing, there's that. See how that works.

Also seems faster doesnt mean anything.

 

[EvilRebar]

Uuuh, okay. But my rig with a Radeon 7900 XTX seems faster and more stable than my rig with the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, so yeah, there’s that…

My 7900XTX had at least a month of nasty crashing in BG3 and launch or sustained issues in other titles that required AMD driver fixes. One crash (WoW Classic) was fixed after a couple of years, and since issues I just had to learn to live with (Metro Exodus EE visual corruption with RT). 4080S that replaced it has been rock solid except for stuttering in Indiana Jones during one patch, which has since been fixed.

 

[EvilRebar]

If you aggregate reddit posts any product looks terrible and unstable. This isn't journalism.

 

[yukka]

No, just...no. please take your "advice" elsewhere. I have remained up to date on drivers for my entire life and rarely ran into an issue. If I do, I roll back the driver and try again or wait for a fix. That's happened maybe three or four times in the last two decades.

The ONLY time not to update drivers is if there is a genuine issue with the latest update that requires rolling back. And most issues don't even require rolling back, they're super minor and can be ignored.

I have a 40 series card and play the latest games, even with RTX on, and experience none of the issues the handful of users are reporting. The more likely issue is, the update highlighted an issue that already existed on their machine. Or, the driver update got corrupted when installed. Which would be fixed by a simple use of DDU and a fresh install of the latest drivers.

It doesn’t affect you so it can’t be a problem that wasn’t user error. Great strategy

 

[AnilD]

You’d think Nvidia would want to keep the perception of DLSS and Frame Gen rock solid, especially since it’s become such a flagship feature. If those are causing crashes on last-gen cards, it kind of undermines the whole “play the future now” pitch they’ve been selling.

 

[EvilRebar]

You’d think Nvidia would want to keep the perception of DLSS and Frame Gen rock solid, especially since it’s become such a flagship feature. If those are causing crashes on last-gen cards, it kind of undermines the whole “play the future now” pitch they’ve been selling.

I'm using a last gen card and the only issue I've seen in the past six months is stuttering in Indy for one driver release.

If you search any product on Reddit, you will find posts of people with issues using that product. It's not journalism to point at reddit threads existing as an indicator of product quality.

For example: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=9700XT+crashing+reddit

 

[toooooot]

I am just slightly curious. How hard is it to update drivers without changing the way they react to the old hardware?
Or are they so set on making new ones work better that the previous generations do not matter at all?