NVIDIA has found itself at the center of a brewing controversy after releasing a driver update that reportedly slashed GPU performance by nearly 30%. The issue surfaced just before the weekend, specifically ruining the experience for players of Resident Evil Requiem.
This technical blunder follows recent claims from the company’s CEO, who asserted that AI has moved past its “hallucination” phase and is now being integrated into NVIDIA’s own software development workflows.
The gaming community has been quick to mock the situation, with one user commenting, “If this is the quality of code AI is producing, I’ll pass.”
Tech YouTuber Daniel Owen revealed that even after rolling back to the supposedly stable 591.86 version, frame rates in Resident Evil Requiem remained 23% lower than on the much older 576.88 drivers. To achieve peak performance in Capcom’s latest title, users are currently urged to perform a clean installation of version 576.88.
Although the problematic drivers have been pulled from distribution, NVIDIA has yet to release a dedicated hotfix to address the performance degradation in Resident Evil Requiem.
Source: iXBT.games