Nvidia users rage as the latest driver ‘totally wrecked’ their custom overclocks — luckily, a patch is available that puts things right

• Nvidia’s 595.71 driver broke overclocking for graphics card users
• The driver limited GPU voltages, leading to underperformance
• Nvidia has just released a hotfix that addresses the issue

Normally, undervolting your graphics card requires plenty of careful tinkering, benchmarking and adjusting in order to get everything precisely right. It’s not something that is forced on you or comes about unexpectedly, yet that seems to be exactly what happened to many Nvidia customers who upgraded some of the best GPUs to the company’s 595.71 driver. Fortunately, although it had an impact on real-world gaming performance, a fix is now available.

The issue was reported by VideoCardz, with the outlet noting that early feedback from the 595.71 driver had included reports of “core voltage and boost behavior changing, with many claiming a ceiling around 0.95 to 0.975V and clocks that stop around 2,955 to 2,985MHz, or around 3,000MHz, even after applying manual overclocks.”