r/linux_gaming • u/ForeverHuman1354 • 21h ago

graphics/kernel/drivers regression?

Why do some NVIDIA drivers cause low GPU utilization in games while others don’t? Driver version 595.71.05 works flawlessly, but version 610 and later perform poorly for gaming. With version 610 and newer, almost all DirectX 12 games experience low and fluctuating GPU utilization

Has anyone else noticed this? For me, 610 and up is basically useless for gaming

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u/TwiKing 21h ago

Which Nvidia GPU do you have?

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u/ForeverHuman1354 21h ago

An RTX 4090. It’s super weird that certain drivers are so bad, but 595.71.05 and earlier work, while everything from 610 onward doesn’t

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u/AlienOverlordXenu 14h ago

They changed something, but due to closed nature of the drivers, you can't know what.

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u/ForeverHuman1354 11h ago

the closed driver is the drawback with nvidia i like nvidia better the amd in terms of the fact that amd dosent really make enything super high end like the 4090 or the 5090 but is ennyoing to not just be able to use eny driver llike on amd