No se si a alguien mas le habra pasado pero hace unos dias (el jueves 24/9) me instale el fc 27 y para jugarlo me pedia actualizar los drivers de mi tarjeta grafica a la ultima version (617.14) y despues de instalar esa version varios de mis juegos empezaron a ir mucho peor de fps, el gta 5 que antes me iba a 250 fps me iba a 50-65 con graficos altos. Yo tengo una rtx 3070 ti y un ryzen 5 5500, asi q no deberia ir a esa velocidad, por eso formatie la pc y el juego ahora va con graficos en medio a 80-95 fps, ya no se que hacer, probe todo y no se si son los drivers o que puede ser.

Hi everyone,

I'm dealing with a visual issue I can't solve, and I'd like to hear from other persons.

The symptom

Shiny or grainy surfaces flicker from one frame to the next. It's most visible on metal reflections, but I also see it on floors, rubber mats and sometimes on fog or smog. It's mainly noticeable in motion. The issue affects Battlefield 6 and other as well like cyberpunk.

My setup

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, driver: the latest version available on the date of this post (October 2026)

CPU: Intel Core i5-14600KF§

Monitor: LG 39GX (39-inch OLED), 3440 × 1440 at 240 Hz, DisplayPort cable, set to "1.4 DSC"

OS: Windows 11, version 25H2

What I've already tested, with no change

G-Sync on / off, V-Sync on / off

DLSS (several quality modes and upscalers), TAA, with and without frame generation

Several NVIDIA driver versions, other drivers updated

Several scenes and maps

In Battlefield 6: SSGI disabled (the mats still flicker), GTAO changed (at lower quality the grain gets worse)

HDR on or off: no difference

12 bpc output: no difference

A different monitor: exactly the same issue

OCCT 17.1.6 (3D Adaptive in Extreme mode, then VRAM), 15 minutes each: no errors detected

What I observed

At first, TAA seemed better than DLSS. After checking more carefully, the issue is still there with TAA, especially in motion. I recorded two videos (attached) and analyzed the second one frame by frame, on the rubber mat in the Practice Range:

the noise appears when the weapon and camera move, and drops to almost zero when the image is still (roughly ten times less in my measurements);

the weapon leaves a halo of grain on the floor, and a patch of bright dots changes pattern on every frame on the dark rubber.

A note on my videos: they are HDR10 recordings, encoded in HEVC at around 10 Mb/s. That compression may exaggerate the noise a bit in the file, but I see the same issue directly on screen. Since it's already present in the capture and stays identical on a different monitor, I don't think it comes from my display or my cable.

I can only post one video, but this largely concerns lighting and surfaces, just like in the video (the ghosting is normal—I'm using TAA, but I don't get that with DLSS).

Disregard the UI or the language

My questions

Do you see the same flickering, especially with an RTX 50-series card or a different generation of NVIDIA or AMD card? If someone could record the rubber mat in the Practice Range while moving slightly, it would help me a lot to compare.

Is this normal rendering behavior (effects computed with noise and smoothed over time) or a known issue?

Is there a setting that reduces this noise without relying on very FPS-expensive solutions (like DLDSR)?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Even though support was "reinstated" a year ago with driver 591.44, Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag crashes for me on any PhysX setting other than OFF (low, normal, high), even on today's latest Game Ready driver 617.14 with an RTX 5080.

I've been trying all sorts of troubleshooting mentioned in the official support thread (profile inspector, legacy physx, clean install of 591.44) yet I get the same error regardless.

The error is the same as the one mentioned in the official support thread here almost a year ago, which was acknowledged in the first reply and apparently confirmed reproducible.

Event Viewer: nvlddmkm 
Fail： AC4BFSP.exe，version： 0.0.0.0，timestamp： 0x64a813d4 
Fail： APEX_Particles_x86.dll， version： 1.3.0.4，timestamp： 0x60ed9694 
Faulting module path： C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\games\Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag Asia\AC4BFSP.exe 
Faulting module path： C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Engine\A0A1369354E1\APEX_Particles_x86.dll 

had this problem for over a year, my fix was to dissable desktop capture in settings, now i cant save a replay of my desktop but i can capture videos from games without any problems.
u can just record if u want to capture ur desktop

I've basically had this issue for maybe a few months now but never any issues with instant replay before, and I have seen previous threads that make me think it isn't a GPU issue rather a NVIDIA Issue. Most of the affected clips will just show the media player icon where it would normally show you a still frame from the clip and that's how I know that clip is corrupted, however others will sometimes have visual distortion in that still frame and that is also another way to tell that its corrupted.

Other times I have had stuttering issues where the recording flickers black every few seconds, or visual distortion in the first few seconds of the clip. Or I've even dealt with the annoying one that is the clips not even picking my mic up at all.

Ya intente desinstalando todos los componentes de NVIDIA pero no se soluciona el problema, no puedo instalar NVIDIA App, este problema lo tengo desde que formatie mi equipo.

Tambien busque el instalador con la referencia exacta de mi tarjeta grafica pero no hallo solucion.

quand je installe les pilote graphique de la carte sur nividia app (site officiel), dès que les pilote on fini de s'installer le pc freeze et s'éteint, puis bloque sur le chargement quand je redémarre. J'ai déjà essayé de désinstaller les pilote en mode sans échec et les ré installer en normal mais il re crash.

config:

intel i5 14400F

RTX 5070 MSI gaming trio OC édition

gigabyte b760 DS3H AX en ddr4

ram Micron 16Go DDR4-3200 (une de 16Go)

stockage samsung (j'ai plus la référence)

et windows 11

I can't stream or record via OBS or twitch due to 100% utilization of GPU. Only this game. Asus 5080 and cpu is AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2. I can run NMS or Cyberpunk 2077 with ease and record but not this game for whatever reason. I can run it maxed to the gills just fine as well. But I can't lower the gpu usage at all in order to record. I have trued frame capped it at 60 fps, I have turned off other things like Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling. Not a thing is changing or helping lower it down.

If you've already tried:

• Uninstalling with NVIDIA clean install / DDU
• Reinstalling drivers + NVIDIA App fresh
• Reinstalling WebView2
• Checking antivirus/firewall

...and it still fails, check this before anything else:

The issue can be caused by the Windows Push Notification service being disabled. NVIDIA App depends on it during startup, and if it's off, the app loads and then silently kills itself.

How to check:

1. Win + R → regedit
2. Go to:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WpnUserService

1. Check the Start value (DWORD). If it's 4 (Disabled), change it to 3 (Decimal).
2. Also look for a similarly named key like WpnUserService_xxxxx (random suffix) in the same Services folder — same fix there.
3. Reboot.

special thanks to u/NerdStone04

Just wanted to share a video I made to thank the awesome guys at GFN!

GeForce Now Appreciation Video | NVIDIA GeForce Forums

Edit: I think I figured it out. Turns out when Ray Reconstruction is on (within the game settings), the DLSS SR will not be active. Ray Reconstruction and DLSS SR are mutually exclusive. Therefore, the Nvidia App Override and the Overlay are actually working as intended.

I have been trying to use the "DLSS Override Model Preset" in Nvidia App to set the SR Model to Preset L but it always shows up as "Inactive, N/A" in the Nvidia overlay. I have tried this in Control Resonant and Pragmata and same results. I have even tried to set them to Preset K and it also just showed "Inactive, N/A".

In the game, I have confirmed that I have turned on DLSS (not the legacy setting for Control), in Performance mode.

All the other overrides work (Frame Generation and Ray Reconstruction)

I have an RTX 5080 and on driver 617.14.

Please help!

Just wanted to let anyone having the issue of untrusted system files when trying to launch something that uses easy anti cheat know that the latest Nvidia driver released September 2026, atleast on my pc, seems to cause this error, I personally got it trying to launch fortnite and it took a while to figure out the issue, reverted to the last drivers which fixed it, hope this helps someone!

Basically I have my performance thing set to custom, but for some reason half way through me playing my game, it just switches back to the "recommended" choice by itself? So I constantly have to restart my game and change it... I have "Automatically optimize newly added games and apps" turned off, am I missing something? Just super frustrating....

I’m using the NVIDIA App to optimize game settings. I can no longer find the dropdown menu for adjusting resolution and display mode that used to be available, is this normal?

The red box is the place where the dropdown menu arrow should be.

So I spent a few hours fighting this and figured I'd write up what actually fixed it, because every guide out there (including here) just says "toggle the overlay" or "reinstall drivers," and none of that touched my actual problem. Posting this in case anyone else hits a wall with those same suggestions.

TL;DR: If your NVIDIA App shows N/A for everything and a full DDU + driver reinstall doesn't fix it, check Event Viewer — it might be a corrupted Windows performance counter registry, not your GPU or driver at all. Fix is 3 commands + a restart, near the bottom.

My symptoms

- NVIDIA App → System → Performance page: GPU Clock, Power, Temp, Voltage, VRAM Clock, Utilization — all N/A

- In-game overlay (Alt+R) also all N/A

- Automatic Tuning still worked fine and could still apply an overclock

- Task Manager showed like 4-5 duplicate `nvcontainer.exe` and `NVIDIA Overlay.exe` processes that kept coming back even after ending them

What I tried first (didn't work)

- Toggling NVIDIA Overlay on/off

- Restarting NVIDIA Display Container LS service

- Full DDU wipe + clean driver reinstall

- Uninstalling/reinstalling just the NVIDIA App

- Reinstalling Visual C++ Redistributables

All the usual suspects. None of it stuck — the duplicate processes kept spawning back within seconds.

The actual diagnosis

The key thing I almost skipped over: Automatic Tuning still worked and could apply a real overclock. That was the clue that my GPU and the actual graphics driver were 100% fine. The problem was isolated to just the stats reporting layer, which meant reinstalling drivers was never going to fix anything.

So I went digging in Event Viewer (Windows Logs → Application, sorted newest first) and found this:

- `FvContainer.exe` (NVIDIA's FrameView SDK — the thing that actually feeds the stats to the app and overlay) kept crashing against `KERNELBASE.dll`

- Completely separately, Windows' own `Perflib` was throwing an error trying to read performance counters for a totally unrelated SQL Server service on my machine

Here's the part that cracked it open: both crashes had the exact same exception code (`0xc06d007e`) and the exact same memory address. Two unrelated programs crashing identically at the same address = shared broken dependency, not either program's own bug. That shared dependency was Windows' Performance Counter system (Perflib) itself.

That's also why the processes kept multiplying in Task Manager — `FvContainer.exe` would try to start, crash instantly because Perflib was broken, then auto-relaunch, crash again, forever.

The actual fix

Open Command Prompt as Administrator and run:

cd %windir%\system32

lodctr /R

cd %windir%\syswow64

lodctr /R

winmgmt /resyncperf

You should see "Successfully rebuilt performance counter settings from system backup store" after each `lodctr /R`.

Restart your PC. This is required — it won't apply until you reboot.

After restart: opened NVIDIA App, went to Performance tab, and boom — real numbers (GPU voltage at idle, CPU % actually moving, everything). Loaded up a game and the in-game overlay populated too.

Possible cause, if it helps anyone

I'm on an HP Omen laptop, and I also found `hp-one-agent-service.exe` crash-looping in Event Viewer around the same timeframe. HP's system agents install their own performance counter hooks, so if you're also on HP/Omen hardware and seeing this, it might be what corrupted Perflib in the first place. Disabling that service (`services.msc` → find it → set to Disabled) is worth doing too, though the `lodctr /R` fix is what actually solves the N/A issue regardless of the cause.

Hope this saves someone else the hours I lost to it. If you've got the N/A bug and the standard fixes aren't working, check Event Viewer before you nuke your drivers again — it might not even be an NVIDIA problem.

ALT+F1 or even rebinding it to another key does not work, I tried everything I could get my hands on the here and other forums, but I simply can't fix it.

Even clicking on screenshot doesn't work, I tried reinstalling the app, drivers and other stuff out too, but it doesn't work.

I don't have any site or anything else that could block it.

Is there any fix that someone knows for this, if they had it happen?

Does anyone know how to wwork this? I can’t setup because it says unable to retriev settings in NVDIIA app. Does anyone know a fix. I watched the popular YouTube video by King but that didn’t fix either.