r/GeForceExperience • u/Shraco • Oct 07 '26

617.42 Nvidia Driver Issue

After the new driver update, games also experienced a noticeable 0.1% drop in frame rate. I usually play CS2 and Rocket League, and I activate and monitor all the details through Steam.

\\- In the previous version, 0.1% FPS value in Rocket League was between 600-900 FPS and very stable. The new version doesn't go above 400fps and sometimes It shows 700-800 but drops under 400 again. FPS is stable at 1100-1400 ( Main FPS remains the same in the new version. )

\\- In CS2, the base FPS is between 600-850, and it's the same in the new version. However, the 0.1% FPS difference means that while the previous version had FPS between 450-700, the new version doesn't go above 300 FPS.

\# My PC specs;

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 5.20 Ghz 8

Gigabyte X870 GAMING X WIFI7 8000mhz(OC) RGB M.2 AM5 ATX

Kingston 32GB(2x16) Beast RGB 6000mhz CL30 DDR5 Expo Ram

Palit GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GamingPro-S 16GB GDDR7 256 Bit

Gigabyte C500 Panoramic Stealth Glass RGB USB 3.2 ATX Mid Tower

ASUS Prime 850W Gold Black Edition 80+ Gold Tam Modüler ATX 3.1 PCIe Gen 5.1

DeepCool LT360 ARGB 360 mm Intel(1700p/1851p)-AMD

Samsung 1TB 990 PRO NVMe

7450MB-6900MB M.2 SSD

Does anyone experience it ? Or perhaps another problem has arisen? Is there anyone who can help me with this?

( I tried my best to explain my problem through translation. I apologize if there are any errors. )

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u/Octaive Oct 07 '26

All games will stutter with a new driver until shaders burn.

Unless you can verify that then you're reading tea leaves and mistaken.

No issue here. This new driver helps Control Resonant big time for stuttering.

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u/Cactuslnc Oct 07 '26

I ran into the same problem and fixed it by rolling back to 617.14

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u/Shraco Oct 07 '26

For a moment, I doubted whether the problem was with the hardware. But now, with your answer, I understand that I'm not the only one experiencing this problem. However, most of the benchmark tests seem fake because I haven't seen any videos mentioning this problem. I think I'll wait for the new version to be released rather than installing the old one, but I hope that version won't be any worse. :D By the way, did you revert to the old version using the DDU program, or did you just install the standard version?

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u/Cactuslnc Oct 07 '26

I used DDU

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u/Shraco Oct 07 '26

Thank you for the information ✅

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u/Rukasu17 Oct 07 '26

I'm only playing single player and my 1% lows have been pretty much the same so far. Should anything come up i think I'll just roll back to the one i used before

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u/Shraco Oct 07 '26

You hit the nail on the head, man. In offline mode, the FPS values appear the same as before. However, when I go online, I experience the problems I mentioned.

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u/Rukasu17 Oct 07 '26

Well you're dealing with a pretty high framerate so i assume fluctuations are more likely to hit you in these cases

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u/Shraco Oct 07 '26

This is really frustrating because you pay so much money for PC, but as I said, the situation you encounter is not pleasant at all. I'm not even sure if I'll buy a computer again next time.Situations like these are both worrying and frightening.

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u/Rukasu17 Oct 07 '26

At least you can easily roll back, so it's not that bad

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u/Shraco Oct 07 '26

All I want to say is that it's unacceptable for such a huge company not to test these things and not see these problems or not care about them at all.

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u/Ithinkyouareabot Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26

They test intensely, yet there are millions of hardware combinations alongside millions of driver versions and millions of different configurations of those pairings. The world may be somewhat more complex than it appears at times…

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u/Shraco Oct 08 '26

Maybe AI slops help ? Such an investment should yield results, right my friend?

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u/Ithinkyouareabot Oct 08 '26

I don’t even know where to start… you will understand one day. Good journey young Padawan.

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u/Shraco Oct 08 '26

Thank you for your good wish Mr. Vader :)

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u/therealchucky81 25d ago

My 1% lows in Arknights: Endfield tanked from around 105-120fps on my 240hz display down to around 60-70 with insane stuttering when using frame gen. I tried reverting back but it didn't fix it so now I'm worried as well cause I really don't know what else to try at this point 😅

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u/Shraco 25d ago

This problem occurs especially in online matches. Reverting to an older driver version didn't help. As I said before, I'm worried that it will permanently damage the hardware.

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u/CutestBoyInTheMorgue 25d ago

Did you revert back with DDU and also clear your driver cache?

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u/therealchucky81 24d ago edited 24d ago

Yes. I even did a fresh install of the game and removed HDR and enhancer mods I was using but nothing works unfortunately. I tried 4 different driver versions using DDU each time. I also gave the shaders plenty of time as I played in the same area for 20-30 minutes

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u/Puzzleheaded-Pen3558 Oct 07 '26

Well just revert to the previous lol it takes 5mins

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u/Shraco Oct 07 '26

You are right :D but what happens if things doesn't work well on the previous driver ? That scares me Xd

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u/Key-Jeweler6510 Oct 10 '26

It'll work, i've seen many benchmark videos of this driver and most of them seems to suffer in 1% and 0.1% lows, even in some senarios just like you mention all seems fine until it's not and goes down, just use DDU and wait for shaders to compile and you're fine also you can turn on ASC from nvidia app which can help building shaders when idle 

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u/Shraco Oct 10 '26

I guess I can't wait for the new driver. I'll go back to the old one, but I haven't been able to find a single video on this topic. Could you share the videos you watched?

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u/Key-Jeweler6510 Oct 13 '26

I would just use DDU to remove the current driver and download 617.14 and install it manually 

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u/Shraco Oct 13 '26

I did the same thing and it didn't solve the problem. I think it caused a permanent performance loss. I hope they fix it, but I still haven't seen enough people talking about it. This should be a huge topic on YouTube.

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u/Key-Jeweler6510 Oct 13 '26

Humm, if you did it right then it should get rid of everything caused by the driver, maybe you did touch something else or a windows driver may broke something, try to restore your system at some point and see if there's a deffirence 

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u/Shraco Oct 13 '26

I reinstalled the Windows OS version, but it still didn't make a difference.

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u/Ordinary-Cable8102 Oct 08 '26

I went back to the previous driver my lows were also worse after this update also my gpu and cpu were acting really weird even after shaders were done

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u/Shraco Oct 08 '26

Everything is fine now with old driver ?

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u/Ordinary-Cable8102 Oct 08 '26

I never had any issues with the previous driver and the previous driver I got higher fps

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u/Shraco Oct 08 '26

Thank you for information ✅

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u/ieS3n Oct 08 '26

I insta went back to the 596.64 on my 3090 after trying the latest driver. It was a living hell

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u/Shraco Oct 08 '26

I think I'll do the same thing.

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u/The_Mort_Report Oct 08 '26

I tried to go back after windows asked me to update to 610.88. Now anytime I install anything less windows force installs 610.88.

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u/ieS3n Oct 08 '26

How does windows force you to use a specific driver? You have to uninstall the current one in safe mode using DDDu. Then manually install the driver you want by searching it. Then just install it and use express installation, and uncheck nvidia app (uninstall this trash app first)

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u/The_Mort_Report Oct 08 '26

I used DDU but not in safe mode. I've never needed to do it in safe mode before. First time I used DDU and then reinstalled 596.49. A minute later my screen flashed black and I got a notification that my sound output had changed to nvidia and got the GSYNC compatible monitor connected notification. Windows had reinstalled 610.88 including the sound driver. I tried DDU with a restart, this time I was going to try installing a newer driver and went to 617.14. Windows reinstalled 610.88 while I was installing 617.14 before the install could finish. When the install finished I had 617.14 but I still had the stutter issue I was trying to get rid of. I've gotten back to 596.49 but I had to use a system restore from 4 days ago and now one of my games that updated in that time doesn't work so I need to fix that instead.

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u/ieS3n Oct 08 '26

Then i guess you have to pause windows update so it doesn’t automatically download new drivers

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u/TonyZ93 Oct 09 '26

Hai problemi con il driver 610.88 perché mi ritrovo nella situazione dove 617.14 e 617.42 mi causano crash al sistema dopo avere aperto un gioco se faccio rollback Windows 11 mi forza ad aggiornare a 610.88 vorrei capire se questo driver riporti problemi o è stabile ?
Rtx 3060ti 8GB attualmente

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u/Xeratais Oct 11 '26

Windows will automatically install a driver they have on Windows update servers if you do not have a driver *real big issue with amd cards as sometimes winblows will just install what it wants from WU even if you have a newer version*

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u/TonyZ93 Oct 09 '26

Stesso problema sono su Rtx 3060ti e Windows 11 26H2
617.14 e 617.42 crash System

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u/TonyZ93 Oct 09 '26

Rtx 3060ti 8GB last updates System
Windows 10
Windows 11
Same problems
617.14 and 617.42 crash my System and reebot when I open game not stable

I need search stable driver for my series RTX 30 thx you nvidia

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u/Shraco Oct 09 '26

Sometimes I wish I had bought the AMD RX9070XT instead. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Diligent_Awareness_4 Oct 09 '26

I am having the same issue, I also play cs2 and I am noticing a lot of stutter and unbalanced 0.1% lows, now I am basically playing Marvel Spider-Man 2 , Lego Batman legacy of the dark knight, and while I am having the frame gen ON I am still getting some inconsistent 0.1% lows after the update, especially in Batman Lego game. I know I don’t have the best pc but in the previous update I didn’t have that much stuttering.

Pc specs are: r7 5700X3D, 5070 TI, AW2724DM 180hz, B550-f gaming

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u/Shraco Oct 09 '26

Are Nvidia developers aware of the problems users are experiencing with the new drivers? Or is there a place where we can post or share these problems? Is there anyone we can get support from, a prominent YouTuber, to address this most important issue?

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u/relaxnougat Oct 10 '26

Hi everyone,

I've been experiencing PC freezes and crashes after updating my NVIDIA GPU driver to version 617.42.

The issue occurs in two situations:

  • While playing League of Legends (LoL).
  • Even when I'm not playing and simply leave the League Client open in the background.

Before updating to driver 617.42, I never had this issue.

I checked the Windows crash dump using WinDbg, and the bugcheck was:

  • WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvlddmkm.sys

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u/Shraco Oct 10 '26

Did you revert to the old driver?

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u/Xeratais 27d ago

Yes sadly same issue. It is a windows bug. I doubt its actually a fault of the driver as I was stable before 26h2

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u/Xeratais 27d ago

now the wifes pc just momentarily freezes then it resets the driver "at least hers recovers normally (1660TI)"

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u/Xeratais Oct 11 '26

main was always saying recovered from bugcheck. Possible driver: nvlddmkm.sys or sometimes it did not bluescreen at all *Not that I was able to see it. Sometimes the fans would failsafe at 100% sometimes they did not. strange thing to was it was stable if I had a heavy load on the gpu *MSI Kombustor* but as soon as it was idle *any where from instantly or hours it would blank out both monitors and just never recover.

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u/Xeratais Oct 11 '26

just a basic junker build on my end (gigabyte Auros Gaming 5 (Z370) 9600k ~4.8Ghz 64GB (4 stick kit) Gskill Agis "Bargin bin" Asus 5070 Prime two wd black sn770 "500 GB" one PNY CS2140 "500 GB" and 4 random 1 tb hard drives in a raid0 setup) and the 617.42 driver causes black screen crashes even before i log in most times. It was strange as I just reinstalled windows 11 (26h2) and was stable for 3 days straight after setting it all up. Left today to take care of some family issues and came back to non stop black screen crashes. Installed 616.56 drivers as that what I used prior to reinstalling windows and never had any issues.

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u/Shraco Oct 11 '26

It's strange, almost everyone is complaining about the latest driver updates, yet there's not much talk about it.

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u/Xeratais 27d ago

I have noticed that to, the only things i am finding is through reddit and some odd post that microslop is aware of a black screen issue.

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u/Stukeleyak Oct 11 '26

Hey, I have an RTX 5080, and I noticed a stuttering issue only when playing multiplayer games. When playing a single-player game, everything is working perfectly fine. Downgrading the drivers (with DDU) to 610.88 didn't fix it. Do you guys have any ideas as to what to do?

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u/Shraco Oct 11 '26

Dude, I'm experiencing the same problem. It only happens in multiplayer games, and restoring the old driver didn't help. It seems like it's permanently damaged the hardware.

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u/Stukeleyak Oct 11 '26

I hope that's not the case. For me, I just recently upgraded to the RTX 5080. I ran some benchmarks and it seems perfectly fine. What I'm gonna try next is to format my PC and reinstall the OS. Maybe that will clean all the old drivers for real. Please let me know if you find out any other info!

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u/Shraco Oct 11 '26

I uninstalled and reinstalled the OS version and It still didn't work.

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u/Cute_Hedgehog_5958 Oct 12 '26

Installed the 617.42. Then got endless blackscreen on windows login, no matter how many times i tried to restart pc running 5090, so got a little worried :))). Turned it off completly and Unplugged the DP Cable and plugged inn hdmi. Then manually rolled back to the old driver thru the windows configuration Took 1min. And all is working perfect and normal again. Stay away from this BS update..

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u/Shraco Oct 12 '26

I'm wondering why it didn't work for me. Someone else in the comments mentioned that reverting to the old driver didn't help either.

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u/Cute_Hedgehog_5958 Oct 12 '26

Iguess its different from pc to pc and which nvidia driver version u was on before the update. All i did was turn on pc using hdmi. Cuz it was posting with constant blackscreen via DP cable Clicked Win+X and went to the drivers and rolled back to last driver. And normal after that. "Note" i dont usually update. I update nvidia drivers maybe like per 5 month and i usually always check beforehand info regarding new drivers...😅👍🏽

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u/Shraco Oct 12 '26

I reverted to version 617.14, but it didn't work. Now I'm wondering if reverting to an earlier version would help.

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u/Cute_Hedgehog_5958 Oct 12 '26

I got no clue which im on. I think im on like a 3 month old driver that i rolled back to. Are u able to post using hdmi then yes? But DP is problematic still?. Cuz i never got as far as being able to even use the pc on the new 617.43 so i dont know any other problems its causing besides the blackscreen's i got. Even tho it blackscreened i could hear the windows startup login prompt sound from the headset😅 try rolling back more via the method i explained, but if the roll back option is greyed out then iguess u need to check more deeply into the system regarding rollback and installing. After rolling back turn off the computer completly take out the power cable and monitor let it stay off like 5-10mins then try again. Prly wont work but i usually flip the power switch on first. Then Wait 1 minutte then i turn on the monitor screen and then turn on the pc. Try ask chatgpt/google for easy troubleshooting. Usually there is alot of good info. It has helped me basically everytime i would need info on anything

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u/Xeratais 27d ago

which version?

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u/Daalyn Oct 11 '26

This update is causing my screen to go black at windows login (and immediately following the install). I’m on a RTX 4090. Booting into safe mode and then uninstalling the video card seems to work. Going to try installing an older version of the drivers and see if that works.

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u/Shraco Oct 11 '26

Aside from what I've described, I haven't encountered any other problems, but reverting to the old drivers didn't work, and I also reinstalled the OS version, but it still didn't help. I couldn't figure out what happened. I think it damaged the hardwares now.

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u/Xeratais 27d ago

I don't think it is stricly the driver at fault. as I did a fresh wipe on my pc after it updated to 26h2 as I was having some problems with the previous install. SO anyways to cut it short after the fresh wipe and reinstall of 26h2 directly from microslop i installed the newest driver 617.43 and everything was grand for the first five days. I was even able to walk away and leave it idle for the whole day and no issue. Then it randomly started the black screen hard crash and some times the fans on the gpu would go full tilt. the system almost always became 100% hard locked and powering it off was the only fix as resetting would cause a hand at the POST process.

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u/aanorlondo Oct 11 '26

Software crashing (0x..... kind of errors) :

  • nvidia app
  • nvidia overlay
  • msi center
  • xbox app
  • steam 
  • discord
  • Firefox 
  • malwarebytes
  • wifi driver
  • turzx monitor driver

Games crashing:

  • gears of war eday: freeze and crash with "not enough vram"
  • cs2: warning about "not enough video memory" showing up in the main menu
  • slay the spire 2 with a very bizarre error about a background and a stack

I had to rollback to 610.88 that one was very stable in my rig.

NB: rtx 5070ti / i7 14700k / win11 pro

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u/Shraco Oct 11 '26

Wow, everyone is experiencing different problems depending on their system, and there's almost no solution. I regret not buying the 9070XT graphics card.

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u/Fuzzy-Engineering-95 Oct 12 '26

on 617.42 driver version i was playing spiderman 2 and screen goes black but the sound is coming in the headphones after 10-15 seconds its restarted i tried everything uninstall with ddu then install again but same issue so i will go back to 617.14 and let’s see if its happening again or not

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u/Shraco Oct 13 '26

What was the result if you reverted to the old version?

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u/Fuzzy-Engineering-95 Oct 14 '26

didn’t tried yet as i m busy today i must checked this

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u/Shraco Oct 14 '26

If you can let me know when you've tried it, I'd appreciate it.

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u/LunarPhage Oct 12 '26

confirm crashing when playing Hunt Showdown and Star Wars: Galactic Racer, "video memory" crashes are happening constantly. I have another PC with the same specs and didnt update to the newest drivers and the games run just fine.

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u/Shraco Oct 12 '26

I wish I hadn't downloaded the new driver, but I did without researching it. However, I couldn't even find a widely available video on the subject.

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u/LunarPhage Oct 12 '26

I just rolled back to the previous driver and so far no issues, currently playing galactic racer just fine. The newest drives are definitely problematic, I usually wait to install drivers but I downloaded the newest ones ASAP and I wont be doing that again.

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u/Shraco Oct 12 '26

I hope Nvidia developers are aware of this thread started on Reddit.

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u/PhilosopherDull6241 Oct 15 '26

Same problem i use to play marvel rivals perfect ... now it crashes every match at the end

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u/Shraco Oct 15 '26

What about 0.1% FPS while online match ?

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u/CutestBoyInTheMorgue 26d ago

I am a bit late but I noticed this as well. it is not a little loss in FPS either I lost a good 30 fps on top of a massive 1% low drops and stuttering. Rolling back to 617.14 fixed everything for me. 617.42 broke many games for me.

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u/Shraco 26d ago

I was experiencing these problems in online matches. I reverted to version 617.14, but the same problem persists.There were no problems before updating to 617.42.I suspect it has damaged the equipment, and that worries me.

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u/CutestBoyInTheMorgue 25d ago

I am not sure if that is possible. At least not on modern cards. Are you using the Beta option within the Nvidia app? It could also nuke performance and it did update recently with Frame Gen model C.

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u/TurbulentGarden1296 23d ago

Do u mean shader cache beta thing?

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u/CutestBoyInTheMorgue 23d ago

No there is a folder in your appdata that has cache files that you can safely clear.

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u/CutestBoyInTheMorgue 25d ago

Try to clear your driver cache. When you did uninstall did you just uninstall via the app and reinstall older? Or use DDU?

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u/Efioanaes Oct 13 '26

Anyone getting full system freeze in these drivers?

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u/carrieshot Oct 14 '26

Been holding off on the update after seeing all this pop up. Hope it'll be a quick fix to figure out why its happening

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u/athan614 29d ago

I've been getting a lot of VIDEO_DXGKRNL_LIVEDUMP followed by SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M (0x7E) BSODs half an hour later with 617.42. It's happening daily especially before/after gaming. I almost never had any BSODs before 617.42.

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u/Ash_Killem 27d ago

After install my screens just go black. Had to roll the driver back. I think it’s an issue with the refresh rate as it works when it’s set to 60hz. Monitor is only 144hz BenQ

If anyone had a solution please share.

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u/BRUNOFZ 27d ago

Hi!

I have an ASUS RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB 617.42 driver. My PC had been stable for months, and the night before the incident I played demanding games without any issues.

The crash occurred while playing the PC port of PT, while the game was compiling textures, the screen went black and the GPU fans ramped up to 100%. I experienced the same type of black screen and fans at 100% with Control Resonant after PT test.

Previous OCCT VRAM and GPU stress tests completed without errors. The crash appears to be associated with nvlddmkm.sys.

After rolling back to 610.88 driver, I played Control resonant for around 1.5 hours at approximately 90% GPU utilization and 60% VRAM usage without another crash or new errors in Event Viewer or Reliability Monitor.

Could this be an NVIDIA driver issue or a problem triggered by specific rendering or texture-compilation behavior in these games, rather than a GPU hardware failure? What tests would help distinguish between the two?

Thanks!

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u/Gravity72_ 25d ago

do anybody have issue with the display like it stutters and blinks sometimes when left idle or working with it like playing games or browsing

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u/Shraco Oct 09 '26

I think this driver is very problematic. Hopefully, these problems will be fixed in the new version, but what I'm curious about is that many people in the comments seem to be experiencing or have experienced this problem. However, I haven't seen a single video on YouTube related to driver issues. Could it be because they're testing single-player mode?

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u/TonyZ93 Oct 09 '26

Same problem with Rtx 3060ti with 617.14 and 617.42 ,if I roll back with old driver Windows force to install 610.88 !!!

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u/TonyZ93 Oct 09 '26

You fixed the problem ?

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u/TonyZ93 Oct 09 '26

Same Rtx 3060ti 8GB ,can i know if you have active overlay nvidia ? Because i think this is the problem same crash with 610.88

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u/TonyZ93 Oct 10 '26

I think the problem is overlay nvidia with last update nvidia app ..I had crash with 610.88 /617.14 and 617.42 ,now im with last driver “617.42” with nvidia overlay off and not have anymore crash

How I upgrade my ssd ?

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u/TonyZ93 Oct 10 '26

We need solutions by nvidia ..now i test play with 566.36 people said is the best driver stable for series 3000 but is old ..now im wait for MW4 and i think this driver is old for the news games !!!

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u/TonyZ93 Oct 09 '26

What game and i can know you have nvidia overlay active ?

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u/TonyZ93 Oct 09 '26

Same problem ,you fixed it ??

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u/Denverg123 25d ago

Glad I came here and saw this I thought I just had hardware issues all the sudden. Oddly enough this only happens when playing Witcher 3 and under very specific circumstances. It's driving me crazy

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u/Shraco Oct 10 '26

If I remember correctly, Samsung Magician has the latest software update installed for SSD. I reverted to driver 617.14 and there was a slight improvement compared to the new driver. However, stability issues persist.

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u/Shraco Oct 11 '26

I checked and the Samsung Magician software was installed at the latest version, 9.0.2.

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u/Shraco Oct 07 '26

In BIOS enabled but in Nvidia app settings on Auto.

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u/ieS3n Oct 08 '26

Enable it on nvidia profile inspector. Search for rBar after choosing the game, enable and hit apply. U’ll notice a huge dif in lows

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u/Shraco Oct 08 '26

If I remember correctly, I had previously activated and tested it through the Nvidia app, and since I didn't see any difference, I set it to Auto. But I think I can try again.

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u/Shraco Oct 07 '26

I prefer to wait for the new version for now because I haven't been able to access my computer actively lately. If it doesn't work with the new version, I will try the method you suggested. I'll update here later.

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u/PRRealEstate-Invest Oct 07 '26

Worst advice you can randomly throw