NVIDIA has faced a significant blow to its reputation in recent days. The tech giant struggled to deliver stable drivers for one of 2026’s most anticipated blockbuster releases, Resident Evil Requiem.
The initial software iterations were so riddled with flaws that they were quickly pulled from distribution. NVIDIA eventually released a hotfix, version 595.71, but this update has brought its own set of complications.
According to reports from VideoCardz, the 595.71 drivers prevent RTX graphics cards from reaching their peak clock speeds during overclocking, with a hard cap appearing at approximately 2950 MHz. It seems that core voltage is being restricted to a range of 0.95–0.975 V. Consequently, scores in synthetic benchmarks like FurMark have seen a noticeable decline. This performance throttling currently only impacts users who manually overclock their GPUs.
The issues aren’t limited to benchmarks. Players are reporting distracting graphical artifacts and broken lighting effects even in Resident Evil Requiem—the very title these drivers were meant to optimize.
Furthermore, benchmarks indicate that frame rates with path tracing enabled in Requiem are actually higher on the older 577.0 drivers than on the “specialized” 595.71 release. On the bright side, at least the GPU fan controllers appear to be functioning correctly now.
Source: iXBT.games