NVIDIA has found itself in hot water, yet again, after releasing a faulty driver update that is leaving certain PC gamers with malfunctioning cooling systems and overheating cards. The company has quietly pulled the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver, after users flooded with reports of fans refusing to spin or monitor tools that are going haywire. For many users, RTX 3000, 4000 and 5000 series owners, what must have been a routine update turned to a nightmare scenario.
Users demand legal action as NVIDIA’s faulty drivers wreak havoc on cooling systems
The gamers react with anger all across X and other social media platforms is palpable. Some users are even calling for NVIDIA to face legal consequences over such a botched release. An X user did not hold back, while stating plainly that the “companies should be sued and payout large sums for these bad updates and they need to improve testing.”
The entire frustration stems quite particularly from a dangerous bug in the version 595.59 WHQL. Once installed, many RTX cards start reporting only one fan sensor, leaving other fans unresponsive. The hardware monitoring tools, including HWiNFO and GPU-Z, showed readings for one fan, even on the 3-fan card designs.
The X user tracking this issue closely warned, “Fans may not spin correctly or be detected properly, risking overheating.” Another community member even pointed fingers at the rushed development practices, while suggesting “vibe coding has certainly made software that is both critical and with high failure rates even worse than before.”
One of the most alarming reports described fans stationary, while the GPU temperatures climbed during the gaming sessions. The manual fan curves set via MSI Afterburner or the vendor utilities stopped working completely. It left older NVIDIA cards running on the default BIOS behavior, which could not keep up with the sustained loads.
There are some users who have even reported the voltage clamping around 0.95V. It limits the peak performance on the high-end cards. The screen was black, frozen, showing VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE errors, rounded out misery for those who clicked on the update to NVIDIA new driver, without actually waiting for the community feedback.
NVIDIA and its problematic driver
It is not the first time NVIDIA scrambled to pull such a dangerous update. The rapid removal of version 595.59 by the company mirrors a similar emergency response from recent memory. It was just last November when NVIDIA rushed a fix after the KB5066835 update by Microsoft. This update by Microsoft led to wreaking havoc on the gaming performance, all across Windows 11 systems. While that mess stemmed from Redmond, even then, NVIDIA had to clean up the pieces for users.
March 2025 further brought another headache as the new drivers that were apparently built with the RTX 50-series cards in mind lead BSODs. It also caused system instability on both RTX 30 and 40 series hardware. The game-breaking bugs, moreover, forced many players to roll back or to wait for some hotfixes during some major title releases.
As of now, the situation feels similar. The driver that was meant for performance optimization for Resident Evil Requiem introduced a critical flaw compromising the safety of basic hardware. When thermal controls stopped working right, the risk even extended beyond crashes to actual component damage.
What did NVIDIA respond to the current mishap?
The official response coming from NVIDIA stated, “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.” The users who were experiencing the fan control issues were further told to roll back to version 591.86 immediately.
For anyone keeping score at home, this solution includes reinstalling the older driver on the system, which might have suffered thermal stress. It is a clear reminder that even the industry giants could push updates that break fundamental hardware functions. This in turn leaves users to wonder when the next dangerous release might slip through the quality control.
