Saturday, February 22nd 2025
NVIDIA Investigates GeForce RTX 50 Series "Blackwell" Black Screen and BSOD Issues
NVIDIA's problems with its latest flagship RTX 50 series "Blackwell" GPUs continue. First, it was melting power cables, then stability issues, and recently, the case of missing ROPs. Today, we got a confirmation that NVIDIA is investigating users experiencing significant stability problems, with reports of widespread black screen issues and system crashes since the launch of the dedicated 572 driver branch. Unlike owners of previous generation cards who can roll back to stable drivers, RTX 50 series users are particularly affected as no alternative drivers are available for their hardware. The problems span across the entire RTX 50 lineup, including the 5090, 5080, and newly announced 5070 Ti models. Users have reported issues ranging from display flickering to complete system failures, with some experiencing blue screen of death (BSOD) errors during normal operation.
The situation is especially problematic when using advanced features like DLSS 4 frame generation. NVIDIA staff member Manuel recently addressed these concerns on the GeForce Forums, confirming that the company is actively investigating the problems. Preliminary investigation suggests the issues might extend beyond driver software, potentially requiring VBIOS updates to resolve the stability problems fully. Some users have found temporary relief by reducing PCIe speeds below Gen 5 or lowering monitor refresh rates to 60 Hz, suggesting potential firmware-level compatibility issues. However, these workarounds are not guaranteed solutions for all affected users. The latest driver update (572.47), which added support for the RTX 5070 Ti, failed to address these critical stability issues, including only a single bug fix related to monitor wake-up from sleep mode. This has left many early adopters of the RTX 50 series frustrated with their premium hardware purchases.
Sources:
GeForce Forums, via Tom's Hardware, VideoCardz
The situation is especially problematic when using advanced features like DLSS 4 frame generation. NVIDIA staff member Manuel recently addressed these concerns on the GeForce Forums, confirming that the company is actively investigating the problems. Preliminary investigation suggests the issues might extend beyond driver software, potentially requiring VBIOS updates to resolve the stability problems fully. Some users have found temporary relief by reducing PCIe speeds below Gen 5 or lowering monitor refresh rates to 60 Hz, suggesting potential firmware-level compatibility issues. However, these workarounds are not guaranteed solutions for all affected users. The latest driver update (572.47), which added support for the RTX 5070 Ti, failed to address these critical stability issues, including only a single bug fix related to monitor wake-up from sleep mode. This has left many early adopters of the RTX 50 series frustrated with their premium hardware purchases.
244 Comments on NVIDIA Investigates GeForce RTX 50 Series "Blackwell" Black Screen and BSOD Issues
This launch was clearly rushed but Nvidia doesn't care about gamers anymore with so many mistakes like black screens, melting connectors, and missing ROPs.
This is unacceptable and people should vote with their wallet to show it to be so.
4000 Series - Teaches people cables, connectors, electrical resistance and contact surfaces knowledge
5000 Series - Teaches people IC burn, PCI-E 5 signal integrity, BSOD, defective ROPs, also (cables, connectors, electrical resistance and contact surfaces)
I guess this shows once again NGreedia doesn't care much for consumers but only investors and such, if they really cared they wouldn't have launched any of cards if these issues and further more they created the hole 12VPWR problem themselves because "oh" our gpu's needs 500W+++ to be so fast instead of innovate on bringing power consumption down to a single maximum 2x8pin pcie power connectors this would improve a lot.
I sad it a couple of times already stop the 5ish % performances and fakeness upscales and frames and stand still while improving power consumption instead of users needing 1000W+ to run a crappy card at the end of the day.
I wish both AMD and NV would stop the performance race and start looking into just innovate on the performance we see and bring it down to 200-250W that would be innovation but I guess none of them have the brains, b**** and p**** to do so....
Intel needs to jump the gun and try to at least compete in the midrange (5070 / 5070ti). They already have the software ready (Xess and RT performance is decent), they need to beef up the hardware.
And he probably doesn't mean the same thing as you do with disposable income. Disposable income doesn't mean just having the money to buy it. Know a guy that sold his company in his 30s and doesn't have to work ever again, he has hundreds of millions. Do you think he should wait a couple of years until prices get better? Why the heck would he, 3k$ is nothing to him, he finds 3k$ lying on the street he won't even bother to pick it up.
I'm not following, they saw the best performing GPU for gaming ever made, they had the money, they bought the GPU. You need to understand that whilst value for money, or generational performance uplift are things that a lot of people care about, it's not what everyone cares about. It's simply a different viewpoint.Why not? If you've got the money & want the thing, why wouldn't you? These morals or ethics that most of us enthusiasts apply to all this are all in our heads. None of it matters for the top tier purchasers.It could be bias but I agree that the Green fanbase tends to be more, err, "rabid" about their choice of product and disparaging about people who don't do things "the right way" by buying Nvidia. At least on TPU.
I've been told that me being impressed about the performance of my 7900 XTX is wrong because I just don't understand how much better Nvidia is, for example. Not to say the AMD buyers are free from sin, but the bias of poor behavior skews heavily in one direction.