Earlier today, NVIDIA, alongside Intel and AMD, released a new graphics driver with optimizations for Resident Evil Requiem and Marathon. Driver 595.59 WHQL also brought some bug fixes and improvements for other games. However, several hours later, NVIDIA had to pull the driver, as it discovered an important issue affecting the user experience.
NVIDIA has updated the announcement article with details about the issue. According to the company, driver 595.59 WHQL caused issues with fan controls, with users reporting not being able to detect any fans in applications. Here is what the company says:
February 26th, 11am PT Update: We have discovered a bug in the Game Ready and Studio 595.59 WHQL drivers and have removed the downloads temporarily while our team investigates. For users that have already installed this driver and are experiencing issues with fan control, please roll back to 591.86 WHQL.
NVIDIA app users can reinstall their previous driver by clicking the three dots in the Drivers tab.
If you are already on driver 595.59 WHQL and you cannot control fans in your preferred software, the best course of action is to go back to driver 591.86 WHQL, which you can download here.
NVIDIA"s drivers have been mostly pain-free during the last few months. However, at the start of the RTX 5000 Series, NVIDIA experienced a flood of bugs and critical issues, causing massive frustration for affected customers. Fortunately, NVIDIA managed to resolve them and get back to more or less stable releases. This time, however, a bug slipped under NVIDIA"s radar and ended up messing with fan control software for affected users.