Upgrading to the latest driver, 572.16, breaks support for AO baking in Substance Painter. Reverting back to 566.36 fixes the problem, and this behavior is 100% reproducible on multiple systems. This problem was reported to me by LevelCap when he was trying to bake on the 5090. However, in his case,…

I am very happy to report that on NVIDIA Driver 572.17, the AO baking problem is no longer an issue, and everything is back to normal. If there are any exceptions to this, feel free to post below, but at least based on my testing, the problem is gone. I have tested in Painter 2024, and Adobe has tol…

Driver, 572.16, breaks support for AO baking in Substance Painter

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JohnLogostini February 4, 2025, 10:30pm 2

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GPU Bake: 566.36

GPU Bake: 572.16

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Driver, 572.16, breaks support for AO baking in Substance Painter

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