Nvidia 595.59 Driver Disaster Critical Fan Bugs and Game Stability Failures
Nvidia released WHQL certified driver 595.59 which supports Resident Evil Requiem and Marathon beta as its Game Ready status. The official release notes state that there are no existing problems yet users from Guru3D and hardware testers found multiple critical issues. The current release emerges after the previous 591 branch experienced stability problems for one month which included black screens and HDR corruption.
The most alarming issue in the 595.59 update is a total breakdown in fan monitoring for RTX 50 series GPUs which includes the 5090 Founders Edition and my 5080 models. Users report that monitoring tools like HWInfo and Fan Control are unable to detect one or more fans after the update. The system failure which occurred here operates as a hardware safety regression instead of becoming a surface level cosmetic problem. The driver cut off all detection functions when a fan outage happened or thermal throttling began.
The only available solution to restore hardware monitoring functions requires users to roll back to the 591 driver which previously caused display corruption throughout the month.
The 595.59 driver appears to be unstable for some of the most played titles in 2026. Testing on RTX 5080 systems reveals the following
- Battlefield 6 The game process frequently vanishes silently upon launch. The system shuts down the application during the black screen because it failed to produce any crash reports or error logs.
- Cyberpunk 2077 The game becomes completely unlaunchable because of persistent error messages which block access to the new driver branch.
- Frame Generation Regressions Users who utilize Frame Gen and Multi Frame Gen experience more input delay than they did with previous software.
Nvidia has utilized the R590 branch to retire several legacy NVENC presets. The change became hidden from consumers because the release notes failed to show details about stream setups which resulted in malfunctioning OBS recording systems for creators. The update will need you to redo your entire software setup because your current workflow depends on legacy encoder settings.
For the second consecutive month, updates from Microsoft and NVIDIA have shipped with critical hardware and software flaws, raising fresh concerns about quality control and release stability. kinda shame from this big companys
Users who installed 595.59 and face problems should uninstall the driver using Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) then choose either the stable 2025 driver or the faulty 591 branch until hotfixes become available.
