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The_Barronator 3 Oct @ 7:06am
RTX 5000 series and UE5 artifacts
Does anybody know anything about there being an issue with the 5090 and others with UE5 games right now? I updated to the latest driver and it seems in a lot of my UE5 games I am getting graphical artifacts. Looks like stretched out textures and stuff.

I read somewhere that this is a current issue that NVIDIA is working on fixing.

Happens to me in Mafia The Old Country, Expedition 33 and Oblivion Remastered.

Strangely STALKER 2 is just fine. It seems to only affect some UE5 games. Honestly thought I was gonna have to RMA my 5090 for a sec.

Reinstalling the graphics driver fixes the issue temporarily but it starts again eventually.
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HissingPython 3 Oct @ 7:19am 
Windows or Linux?
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The_Barronator 3 Oct @ 7:28am 
Windows 11
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The_Barronator 3 Oct @ 7:32am 
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/573935/graphical-issues-with-ue5-games-on-rtx-5090/
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wing0zero 3 Oct @ 7:48am 
Been a couple mention this bug, not a super wide spread thing it seems and I can't personally recreate it on my 5090, maybe some kind of software conflict in the system somewhere, some kind of poor memory addressing maybe, not seen any one stop solution mentioned.
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The_Barronator 4 Oct @ 4:11pm 
Strangely, restarting the PC fixes this issue until you power the PC down again.
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smokerob79 4 Oct @ 5:19pm 
this is the AI slop drivers that NgreedyA is now using.....there are only 2 working drivers released in the last year that work for older 30 and 40 series cards......50 series first driver is where all the slop started.....
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wing0zero 5 Oct @ 2:09am 
Originally posted by The_Barronator:
Strangely, restarting the PC fixes this issue until you power the PC down again.
Yeah that seems to be the fix, that's why maybe a memory address issue as you're clearing the memory on reset, one guy on here said he could get it to do it by playing a couple of UE5 games then playing one of the games that does it and it would happen, restart then it goes, maybe UE5 games on exit don't clear the VRAM properly I don't know, tricky thing to pin down when there is no error files to look at or anything.
Could need a UE5 engineer to figure out what is happening using the UE5 diagnostic tools, or someone who knows what they are doing with UE5.
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ICE 5 Oct @ 2:19am 
50 series drivers are very bad in my opinion. Game has constant crash in some updates
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Angry Gandalf 5 Oct @ 2:19am 
Yeah, I'm with wing0zero.
Something is interfering on your system.

We had a very manly man (who is now banned on this sub) who had the same problem. He acted like if it was an RTX 5090 exclusive issue, which it's not since a few other users on 5080s and even RTX 4000 series hat this problem as well.

Seems to be a minor issue for users though. We need someone from the Unreal-engine team to explain what exactly is happening on some PCs.
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wing0zero 5 Oct @ 2:31am 
Originally posted by full of aura:
50 series drivers are very bad in my opinion. Game has constant crash in some updates
How do you know it's a driver issue when it only seems to happen in UE5, UE5 could be to blame just as easy.
As for drivers all I can say is I've owned a 5090 since day one as I wen't to a Nvidia launch event to buy one and I've used every latest driver on release and not had a problem, now not to say there has been no problems but I do wonder how much it comes down to sloppy unmaintained PC's and clueless users who can't even to begin to fix problems.
Last edited by wing0zero; 5 Oct @ 2:32am
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The_Barronator 5 Oct @ 5:44am 
It's interesting that the possibility of it being a VRAM issue with UE5 is mentioned because if you look at the type of artifacts people are getting, it usually is a symptom of a VRAM problem specifically, or so I read somewhere anyways. Like stretched out textures and texture flickering. At least it might not be the GPU itself then, I mean literally every other game engine works great.
Last edited by The_Barronator; 5 Oct @ 5:47am
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wing0zero 5 Oct @ 8:39am 
Yeah i wouldn't worry about it as such beyond just an annoying bug and it seems to be the same games like Oblivion, can't say if it's a Nvidia thing or UE5 and can't imagine anyone offering a fix, just make sure when you play them games it's after a restart I guess.

Only other thing is a random software conflict and that's more a time killer to find and it might not even be the case, fresh Win install with just latest drivers mobo/gpu and Steam, play the games see if it's fine then install other software you use and see if it pops up after X piece of software is installed.
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Arrowhead 8 Oct @ 9:09am 
Can confirm the same with a 5090 and 9950X3D. I load up fortnite at some point, and crash within 5 mins. Kernelevent 141. I restart and can play Fortnite for hours no problem. No other games are crashy but I mostly play CS2 and COD.
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AmaiAmai 8 Oct @ 11:59am 
Considering people are spamming it in their driver release forum page, the problem is obviously widespread by now. Even a guy who got banned in this hardware section complained about it (and was gaslit by some Nvidia fanboys).

No clue why anyone would pretend it's not. In fact it's mentioned here by people:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/575454/geforce-grd-58142-feedback-thread-released-93025/

And you can also see people complaining about that blackscreen issue. Not that it can be fixed in the driver anyway. Sucks for anyone with a NV card 4000/5000 with a small ROM size. Better luck next time choosing manufacturers that don't skimp out where it counts.
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HxE 8 Oct @ 1:20pm 
It is a quite well known fact that rtx 5000 series has driver issues. I am almost sure they will be fixed eventually, but for now you have to deal with it.
Last edited by HxE; 8 Oct @ 1:21pm
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