Nvidia has not really had major issues with gaming GPU drivers for quite some time now. Team Green fans always shove the superior driver stability in AMD’s fanbase face, but it looks like the situation got trickier for Nvidia ever since the new RTX 5000 series got released. While GPU makers usually provide support for the most recent 3-4 GPU generations, Nvidia’s drivers (572.XX) that introduced support for the new RTX 5000 cards seem to be causing quite the problems for previous gen GPUs, prompting game developers to recommend older drivers just to bypass all the instability issues.
Not even the RTX 5000 cards are spared when it comes to instability issues, but the previous gen RTX 4000 and RTX 3000 cards tend to see more sudden crashes, freezes, artifacting and frame drops with the 572.XX drivers. Previous gen Nvidia GPU owners have been reporting problems in quite a few games over the past few months, and now game developers working on inZOI or The First Berserker: Khazan specifically recommend driver version 566.36 for RTX 4000 and RTX 3000 cards. Mpr_reviews on X reports that 566.xx drivers fix most issues for the older cards; however, this solution drops the support for some DLSS features required in the latest Nvidia App.
Unfortunately, RTX 5000 GPU owners cannot downgrade to previous driver versions in order to increase stability, since only the new 572.XX drivers support the latest generation. Although Nvidia keeps releasing new driver versions quite more often now, the release of the RTX 5000 cards riddled with supply and hardware issues both on desktops and laptops is a clear sign that Team Green is not focusing on the gaming segment as much as it used to in the past, whereas the compute and server business sides have been playing a huge role in the AI boom from the past few years.
I first stepped into the wondrous IT&C world when I was around seven years old. I was instantly fascinated by computerized graphics, whether they were from games or 3D applications like 3D Max. I’m also an avid reader of science fiction, an astrophysics aficionado, and a crypto geek. I started writing PC-related articles for Softpedia and a few blogs back in 2006. I joined the Notebookcheck team in the summer of 2017 and am currently a senior tech writer mostly covering processor, GPU, and laptop news.
