List of issues that still affect the 590 driver:
- Random black screens when playing intensive games, sometimes resulting in a partial GPU driver crash. It is sometimes possible to switch to a TTY, but attempting to switch back to a graphical session will crash the driver for good.
- Desktop memory usage is excessively high(over 2GB sometimes).
- A large amount of GPU Memory is unaccounted for in
nvidia-smi/ NVML. - Applications crash when VRAM is full.
- Shared RAM under Linux seems broken. It’s almost like there is an incredibly small amount(256MB) and once that’s gone things start crashing.
- DLSS3 / DLSS4 / Smooth Motion is broken. It universally lowers FPS and can cause massive input lag and micro stuttering.
- Gnome-shell / GDM can freeze on login from a fresh boot. Switching to a TTY and relogging in works around this.
- Ray Tracing is broken on a lot of games, resulting in an XID 109 or some other error.
- Some games show DLSS upscaling options but no frame generation(Portal 2: RTX). Maybe a Proton issue?
- Dragging the HDR slider under Gnome can cause a driver crash(maybe fixed?).
- DX12 games have a massive performance penalty.
- VRR causes backlight strobing/flickering
- Shader cache doesn’t save properly, forcing it to be computing again.
- Video decoding from a GTX 960 using Sunshine/Moonlight causes blocky artifacts.
- HDR is broken.
- Performance limiters are broken on Blackwell.
- PRAGMATA and other games have graphical glitches.
- Using a secondary dedicated GPU often fails with
[drm:__nv_drm_gem_nvkms_prime_dup [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000c00] Failed to import NVKMS memory to GEM object. This error can happen regardless of whether you usedxvk.deviceFilteror in-game display adapter settings. Other times games start but run at 5 FPS.