Subj : Nvidia rushes out fix for GPUs that are suffering nasty stutterin To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Thu Feb 08 2024 14:30:05 Nvidia rushes out fix for GPUs that are suffering nasty stuttering in games and web browsers Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:28:19 +0000 Description: Tearing your hair out because everything keeps stuttering with your Nvidia GPU? Theres a fix for that, thankfully. FULL STORY ====================================================================== Nvidia has deployed a hotfix for some nasty issues with its graphics cards that have led some GeForce owners to experience stuttering not just in PC games , but in everyday computing activities. This is hotfix driver version 551.46 , an update based on the newest Game Ready Driver (v551.23) that should be applied by anyone whos being plagued by the mentioned issues, known as micro-stuttering. Essentially, this is when the movement in games feels all choppy, and the hotfix cures what Nvidia says is intermittent micro-stuttering when V-Sync is turned on (vertical sync, which synchronizes the games frame rate to your monitors refresh rate this is to avoid tearing). Another problem is that stutter can be experienced in web browsers , meaning jerky scrolling as you browse down a web page, though this is only happening on certain system configurations were told. There are a couple of more niche cures with this new hotfix, as well, including smoothing over stability problems with Immortals of Aveum that occur during long gaming sessions. Analysis: Quick fix These are small but important fixes for Nvidia to make which is always the case with hotfixes. Effectively, these are being rushed out of the door for more aggravating issues, and from the complaints weve seen online, these bouts of stuttering have been causing a lot of frustration (for some time). Particularly when interfering with web browsing and making that a choppy experience (which doubtless must feel like youre using a potato PC from the 90s or something). The caveat, as ever with Nvidias hotfixes, is that because they are deployed outside the usual driver release schedule, they are provided as beta software. They are tested, but only run through a short QA process. In other words, there may be side effects and other issues caused by the hotfix, as well as the problems it remedies (hopefully one of the things that can go wrong is that the fixes themselves fail, of course, but from the feedback weve seen, this patch seems to work just fine). To be safe, you really want to wait for the next official driver from Nvidia which will have these fixes incorporated into it (in their fully tested form). However, if the issues cured by a hotfix are making you tear your hair out right now, and you cant bear it any longer, you may well decide that installing this update is the lesser of two potential evils. Via VideoCardz You might also like The best cheap graphics cards: top GPUs on a budget Top gaming PCs: great rigs for serious PC gaming Best PC games of 2024: must-play titles you don't want to miss ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/nvidia-rushes-out-fix-for-gpus-that-ar e-suffering-nasty-stuttering-in-games-and-web-browsers --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .