NVIDIA Releases GeForce Hotfix Driver 576.15 to Fix Display Crashes and Address GPU Temperature Sensor Problems

NVIDIA has rolled out a new hotfix for its GeForce display driver, aiming to tackle those pesky display problems and a recent issue with GPU temperatures.

NVIDIA’s Latest Driver Hotfix Tackles Display and Temperature Problems

It’s rare to see so many hotfixes released in such quick succession, but NVIDIA seems to be having a challenging time providing software support for its RTX 50 series GPUs. Frankly, I’ve lost track of how many fixes they’ve put out, but the latest hotfix, v576.15, is here, and it addresses a slew of issues. These include the display crashes introduced with the original v576.02 driver and a glitch in the temperature sensor that affected GPU voltages and clock speeds.

Here’s what this hotfix covers:

• [RTX 50 series] Players reported shadow flickering and corruption in some games after updating to GRD 576.02 [5231537].
• Lumion 2024 was crashing on GeForce RTX 50 series cards upon entering render mode [5232345].
• Some GPU monitoring tools stopped showing GPU temperature when the PC woke from sleep [5231307].
• [RTX 50 series] Certain games would crash during shader compilation after the GRD 576.02 update [5230492].
• [GeForce RTX 50 series notebooks] Waking up from Modern Standby sometimes resulted in a black screen [5204385].
• [RTX 50 series] SteamVR experienced random V-SYNC micro-stutters when using multiple displays [5152246].
• Lower idle GPU clock speeds than usual were seen after updating to GRD 576.02 [5232414].

Though we’ve been aware of the display issues tied to NVIDIA’s RTX 50 drivers for a while, the new temperature sensor bug was something else. This bug skewed GPU temperature readings, particularly after waking from sleep mode. The issue arose because the temperature sensor failed to function correctly after a momentary power pause, which was quite a hassle for many users. Thankfully, the latest hotfix claims to have sorted this out, so users should be in the clear for now.

You can grab the GeForce Hotfix display driver version 576.15 and see if it smooths over the crashing display and temperature sensor bugs.