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Gaming News #30

6 September 2026

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Hardware Neowin

Nvidia's 616.86 Hotfix Cleans Up the Bugs Its 616.56 Driver Introduced

Nvidia released GeForce Hotfix driver 616.86 on September 5, built on the 616.64 Game Ready driver. It fixes three bugs, two of them introduced by the earlier 616.56 release: virtual displays failing to create, and black screens in Remote Desktop sessions. It also stops intermittent flickering in web browsers on some sites. The 8-bit monitor flickering that 616.56 caused is still not fixed.

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Discussion Topics

  1. Third Nvidia driver patch in two weeks: are these releases getting rushed out?
  2. Do you update GPU drivers on day one, or wait for the hotfix now?
  3. 8-bit flicker still unfixed after two tries: acceptable, or embarrassing for a company this size?