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

A hot potato: To say the RTX 5000 launch has been far from smooth would be an understatement. Among the issues plaguing the new card have been black/blue screens of death and system instability problems. Nvidia rolled out fixes in recent weeks, but several owners of RTX 4000 and 3000 cards say their symptoms haven't gone away, and that Nvidia is prioritizing fixing the RTX 5000 series.

It was back in February when reports of the issues first arrived. They seemed to originate from Nvidia's 572.16 driver release, which enabled RTX 50 support.

RTX 40- and 30-series cards were impacted, but the 50-series was the worst affected. There were reports of some users 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.

Nvidia quickly confirmed that it was investigating the issues ...