NVIDIA Pulls GeForce 595.59 After Widespread Fan, Clock and Performance Issues

NVIDIA removed the GeForce 595.59 WHQL Game Ready driver from its downloads page hours after release and, as reported by multiple outlets, advised users experiencing issues to roll back to the previously stable 591.86 WHQL driver. The 595.59 package had been pushed as a Game Ready update adding day‑one support for Resident Evil Requiem and Marathon and fixes for The Ascent, Total War, Final Fantasy XII, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, and Quantum Break.

Community reports and forum threads described a striking range of failures. GameGPU called it "a critical bug affecting fan control and monitoring on certain RTX series graphics cards," and TechPowerUp noted users seeing fan detection problems where cards detected only a single fan or failed to start fans at all. Those fan faults carried an immediate hardware risk: users warned that incorrect fan-speed reporting or loss of fan control could allow GPUs to overheat under load.

Beyond cooling, users reported clock instability and reduced boost clocks that translated into measurable performance drops. TechPowerUp cited unstable GPU frequencies and lower boost clocks, and VideoCardz recorded claims of frame-rate regressions in Unreal Engine 5 titles. One user flagged Starfield performance that improved after rolling back to an older driver, a pattern repeated in several forum posts.

Display and system anomalies were also logged in community threads. VideoCardz listed HDR signal loss on Samsung televisions and a sleep/resume failure on the Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K that forced a 640×480 failsafe mode until reboot. The driver rollout briefly appearing and then vanishing in the NVIDIA App, plus wrong driver date displays for some installs, were additional oddities noted by users.

TechPowerUp and other reports say owners of RTX 30 Series, RTX 40 Series, and RTX 50 Series cards began noticing problems, though GameGPU explicitly flagged that no complete list of affected models has been published. The driver was WHQL-signed, a detail community members highlighted with concern after the problems surfaced. With reports multiplying, outlets say NVIDIA removed the 595.59 download while investigating and recommended reverting to 591.86 WHQL for those seeing symptoms.

Reaction in forums has been blunt. One TechPowerUp commenter wrote, "I see the AI continues to deliver outstanding quality." Another, Tsukiyomi91, posted, "I see that vibe coding is at an all-time high from a company that sells more AI slop than putting actual effort in selling proper hardware and writing proper software. Fuck Ngreedia and their 'partners'." A Reddit user in r/hardware summed up the mood: "If only there was an uber new intelligent tech that could help test these drivers and sort out bugs before release. Maybe spearheaded by the same company who released this mess."

Key questions remain unanswered: no verbatim NVIDIA press statement was provided in the reports, there is no published list of affected card models, the root cause has not been confirmed, and it is unclear whether Studio drivers were impacted. VideoCardz suggested a hotfix is likely, writing "We do not know which specific issue led to the driver being pulled, but the fan issues alone would be reason enough" and adding that any fix would probably land as a rapid hotfix. Reporters and users are now waiting on an official timeline and technical details from NVIDIA.