Nvidia confirms black screen fix for RTX 5000 graphics cards, driver update coming this week

What just happened? It appears that Nvidia has started addressing at least one of the many problems affecting the RTX 5000-series. A fix for the black screen issues that have impacted certain Blackwell GPUs, as well as previous card generations, is already available for some users, with a driver update arriving later this week. Last week brought news that Nvidia was investigating the black screen and system instability problems that were affecting RTX 5000-series, 40-series, and 30-series cards. Nvidia had acknowledged the problems the previous week following the 572.16 driver release. While three generations of cards have been affected, the RTX 5000 series seemed to be experiencing most issues, which range from minor stuttering and crashes to blue screens of death. There were reports of some user getting around the problems by capping their display's refresh rate at 60Hz, which isn't what you want when gaming on high-end cards. Now, Nvidia has identified the problem, though it has ... Read full article.