The GeForce Hotfix driver 595.76 is Nvidia’s attempt to clean up a messy sequence of recent driver releases that caused fan, voltage and performance issues on newer RTX 40 and especially RTX 50 cards. The previous 595.71 driver fixed earlier fan control problems but introduced a bug that capped GPU voltage on overclocked cards, keeping boost clocks below expected levels and cutting real‑world frame rates in some cases. Tech outlets and users reported that RTX 50 boards were often stuck around sub‑3 GHz boosts after updating, which effectively “wrecked” custom overclocks until the hotfix arrived.
With 595.76, Nvidia explicitly targets that regression: the hotfix removes the voltage cap so overclocked GPUs can again boost properly, and it also brings specific fixes for Resident Evil Requiem (path tracing performance and visual artifacts), plus a crash fix for Star Citizen and some HDCP/video playback issues. In community tests highlighted by Wccftech, an RTX 5080 owner reported about a 7% uplift in the Steel Nomad benchmark (from roughly 92 to almost 100 FPS) and 15–30 extra FPS in games like Assetto Corsa and BeamNG simply by switching to 595.76, without changing their daily OC. Other user reports and forum posts are more mixed, pointing to stutters, crashes or no improvement at all, which suggests the hotfix is mainly beneficial if you were hit by the 595.71 undervolting and related bugs rather than being a blanket performance upgrade for everyone.
GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 595.76 is based on our latest Game Ready Driver 595.71.
This hotfix addresses the following:
- When the graphics card is overclocked, GPU voltage may become capped, preventing it from boosting to expected levels [5934973]
- [Resident Evil Requiem] White glowing light/dots may appear in game when Subsurface Scattering is enabled [5915673]
- Improved path tracing performance in Resident Evil Requiem [5938207]
- [Star Citizen] Game client crashes when launched [5935027]
- Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed when playing multi-key DRM content in a browser on HDCP 1.x monitors [5934450]
