One of my guilty pleasures as of late is seeing the proverbial lightbulbs illuminate over the heads of Nvidia loyalists when they realize that GPU driver quirks and issues aren’t just an AMD thing
Here’s a gem I found on reddit on the pcmr sub (certain words censored):
“but amd has really bad drivers, go Nvidia”
I never wanna hear that line again with how abysmal the 50 series launch and drivers have been because holy sh**. I have a 50 series GPU and these drivers have been nothing but hell.
What’s changed: “Fixed black screen issues”
Yet the one thing you see the moment you open the grd mega thread: “serious black screen issues” “persistent black screen after driver update” like holy f***. My side rigs 7900gre has simply just worked, never once has it had a GPU driver related issue.
Swarf 50 series dont really count. They are NOT a new generation. They are a ti version of 40 series with DLSS4 (ai Multiframe Generation) attached.
Nvidia has no direct competition at all. No one is a making a 4080/5080 or 4090/5090 competitor. So Nvidia is doing exactly what intel was doing PRE Ryzen release. Remaining complacent doing no real innovating and Releasing new Generations (if you want to call them that) that are a marginal increase over last gen.
This is why competition is NEEDED in both the CPU and GPU space. If intel does not come back swinging with their next Gen CPUs AMD will become complacent and stop innovating with their CPUs too.
If I take the engine out of your car and replace all your pistons with performance pistons and your camshafts with high performance ones. Then try to Resell that Engine as a “new and improved engine”? I called it that but it isnt one.
I get what you are saying but you have to understand without competition in the GPU market this behavior wont only continue. It will get worse.
I know that in your super big brained shifty perspective that’s a few light years above the rest of us, you have your own perspective of this; but to all us other ordinary people in the world who have a more common view of things, the 50X series is 100% a new series of Nvidia cards. Strange argument my friend.
But aside from this, the point of the thread isn’t to debate the series? lol…
Nvidia drivers have issues sometimes too. AMD doesn’t have a monopoly on driver quirks.
Sorry for going a bit off topic. My statement was more along the lines of Nvidia just isnt trying anymore. 50 series is 100% proof of that. Why? they dont have to. They have no competition
The bad drivers are affecting many different cards. I had major black screen issues with the 572-series drivers using my 4080. Just because the 572-series drivers were the launch drivers for the 5000 series doesn’t mean that this is just a 5000 series issue. I know that it was a driver issue in my case because rolling back to the 566 driver from December immediately fixed all of my problems.
One issue that is unique to the 5000 series, is that a 5000 series card can’t use drivers before 572… So rolling back to 566 isn’t an option and they are basically stuck waiting for a proper fix.
I’m just glad I got it sorted out on my end before Season 2 began. I’m guessing that I’ll be on 566 for a while.
bad drivers impact AMD, Intel, Nvidia, printers, bad firmware updates for routers, etc., etc., This really is a problem that you see across the board in software (especially gaming), tech hardware, but really through out a lot industries especially now as consumer rights are getting pushed back. QA time has been shortened so much and understaffed to cut cost and make sure you launch your product to make quarterly numbers. If you are getting the latest & greatest hardware, games, apps, etc., you are pretty much working as a free beta tester for these companies.
Complaints about Nvidia drivers are still rampant online - forums, reddit, everywhere.
I’m unsure how some people will adjust now that they can no longer screech with impunity about AMD driver issues while safely tucking themselves under the umbrella of supposed Nvidia stability
Are they? Im on a RTX 4090. 0 issues. I have had one bad driver in 2 years it was fixed a month later.
I dont think its the drivers. If it were just drivers it would have some affect on 40 series owners. So far its had 0 affect on us. I think its hardware related. If you ask me I think the 50 series are trash but thats just my two cents. Many of the folks I interact with are on 30 and 40 series they have had 0 issues too.
I have read a lot of these complaints and software and drivers do not cause a lot of these issues. Faulty hardware does. There is far to much happening with 50 series for all these problems to be “just bad drivers”. Like I said Im 90% sure the problems are more hardware related. Which would would make much more sense.
This thread is aging well, as still the complaints and issues with Nvidia drivers are going strong, much to the chagrin of those who choose to be oblivious to experiences outside of their personal bubble
