While Nvidia’s focus has shifted to some of its best graphics cards from the RTX 50-series, its older GPUs seem to be running into some driver issues. Many users are turning to Reddit to report problems such as crashes, black screens, blue screens of death (BSODs), and issues launching certain games. These problems only seem to affect the latest drivers.
Scotty1992 on Reddit made a massive thread compiling various recent complaints related to Nvidia’s Game Ready driver, which mostly seems to include various versions of the 572.xx driver. The RTX 40-series appears to be the one most affected, with people reporting problems on cards such as the RTX 4090 or the RTX 4080.
Everything appeared to work well until Nvidia launched the RTX 50-series, with new drivers optimized for the RTX 5090, the RTX 5080, and the RTX 5070 Ti. Since then, users have been reporting problems on Nvidia’s older cards — although the comment section of Scotty1992’s post is flooded with feedback from people with RTX 50-series cards who also have these problems.
Most common complaints are centered around PC crashes, with Scotty1992 reporting that Cyberpunk 2077 will crash the entire PC. This has only started happening with the 572.xx driver, and rolling back to 566.xx fixes the issue — but that shouldn’t be the only thing gamers can do to get their GPUs to work.
“Happens on my 50 series (5080) as well. I have two monitors and anytime the system goes idle I have to either reboot the system or unplug and replug the video cable to the monitor,” said one unlucky user. Another one replied: “Happens on my 3080 recently as well. No issues like this in the 3 years before.”
While Nvidia’s RTX 50-series launch has been far from smooth, with limited availability, missing ROPs, and sky-high prices, the previous generations have been largely unaffected … up until recently. Personally, I own an RTX 4080 and have had no complaints, so not everyone is affected — but if you’ve got an RTX GPU, waiting to update your drivers seems like a smart move right now.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.