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JonesVid
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 18, 2024
Question

Has anyone created a 'good' or 'bad' Nvidia GPU Driver release list?

  • September 18, 2024
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So Nvidia release driver updates fairly frequently, less so for Studio Driver versions as these are in test longer (well, that is the theory)

Very often I see comments in Premiere discussion posts that say "don't use 560.xx version etc as this is a bad driver...". There have been several drivers released over the last two years where there has been a rogue version and told to avoid them. Unless you spot the post talking about this you don't know.

Using the latest driver is not always a good idea.

I've witnessed performance differences betweeen drivers and recently had a line of artefacts across my Program Monitor screen after an Nvidia driver update.

If you look at Release Notes from Nvidia (for the Studio Driver) you see  info that lists fixes for numerous Games. Eg- Lord Zarag's left eyebrow has pixelation at 120Hz....or something like that.

I'd rather see things like 'Performance improvement for H265 decoding/encoding etc etc', but very little is documented on Studio driver tests.

Hope you get the picture.

So has anyone done the hard task of compiling a list of drivers to avoid (and more importantly)  keeps a watch on the latest drivers released.

I just did a search here in Hardware/GPU which did not reveal much.

 

1 reply

Kevin-Monahan
Community Manager
Community Manager
June 27, 2025

Hi,

It's really not a bad idea. It's something I can ask the product team about. It really should be in the current documentation. Don't you think? Thanks for posting.

 

Thanks,
Kevin

 

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio