Nvidia RTX 50 'Fixes' Are Causing Problems For RTX 40 and 30 Cards

Nvidia has been releasing hotfixes, new BIOS firmware, and driver updates to fix the ongoing black screen issues plaguing Nvidia card owners. Although some of these have started to fix the problems faced by new RTX-50 cards, gamers with older RTX 40 and 30-series cards are claiming that the problems are worse than ever. They're complaining that Nvidia is focusing too much on the latest releases while ignoring the majority of affected Nvidia gamers.

Alongside stock issues, melting cables, and missing hardware, the RTX 50 series has been plagued by problems with black screen crashes and driver-release issues since the release of the RTX 5090 in January. Nvidia gamers with older 40 and 30-series graphics cards started reporting similar issues when Nvidia released its 572.16 driver, which enabled support for the new Blackwell graphics cards. Several months on, the problems aren't anywhere close to being sorted.

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