GeForce Driver 591.44 - A huge difference

Craig-Rogers wrote on 12/6/2025, 6:16 PM

This is an interesting article and it would be easy to have the placebo effect if I knew, however, I wasn't aware of any driver issue because I don't play games.

A few days ago, the NVIDIA App prompted me to update the driver, which I often do once I've finished a piece of work. Today, I rendered out some videos and I was very surprised how quick the rendering was taking. It was running at fps I've never seen.

Then, in my Google feed, I notice this post regarding the GeForce driver.

https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/windows-11-users-should-update-their-geforce-drivers-immediately/

This sort of all coincides with when I upgraded to V23 and I was a little disappointed with the performance, now I realise why.

Comments

RogerS wrote on 12/6/2025, 7:59 PM

If you've done one of the benchmarks in my signature could you try it again with the new driver?

EricLNZ wrote on 12/7/2025, 3:55 PM

But with older VP versions be warned of an avc issue with Driver 591.44 https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/rendering-issues-after-gpu-replacement-nvenc--150382/#ca946155

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 12/8/2025, 12:46 PM

Just tried 591.44 on my desktop and and laptop and had to roll it back to 581.57 on both in order to render nvenc avc with vp22... otherwise I got a media creation error at the beginning of the renders. Running win11 24h2 on both.

Craig-Rogers wrote on 12/8/2025, 5:59 PM

Yes, it seems a bad move by Nvidia. Whilst it has certainly improved my V23 experience, Lightroom has been severely impacted.

anthony-chiappette wrote on 12/9/2025, 2:47 AM

I did update to 591.44. V23 rendered a 24 min 8.65GB MP4 file in 10:39, FPS 136.30. Now I'm worried about V22. I will do a test of a project I completed earlier today in V22. But I don't understand why while rendering, Disk usage is very low, less than 5% and CPU usage shows close to 50%. But when the render completes, the disk usage shows very high and the cpu usage shows very low.

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ASUS Prime Z590-A Motherboard with Intel Core i7 11700 8 Core / 16 Thread 2.50GHZ, 64GB Crucial DDR4 3200 (4 x 16GB), nVidia GeForce RTX5060 8GB GDDR7, SoundBlaster X AE5 soundcard, 3 x 4TB Samsung 860 EVO SATA 3 SSD, 2 x 8TB Samsung 870 QVO SATA 3 SSD, 1 x 2TB Samsung 980 Pro NVME PICE4 SSD, 2 X WD 4 TB NVME PCIE3 SSD, 2 X Viewsonic HD monitors, LG Blu-Ray writer. Windows 11 (latest build), currently using Vegas Pro 22 latest build, and limited VP23 use to gauge performance and ease of use differences. Videos come from 2 x Sony HDR CX-405 Cameras, XAVC-S MP4 @ 50Mbps 1080P 60fps video files. (Previously: 2 x Canon HFR800 cameras, MP4 files at 1920 x 1080 60p 35Mbps).

anthony-chiappette wrote on 12/9/2025, 2:54 AM

I just tried to render in VP22 with the new driver - no go. I immediately get the error message.

ASUS Prime Z590-A Motherboard with Intel Core i7 11700 8 Core / 16 Thread 2.50GHZ, 64GB Crucial DDR4 3200 (4 x 16GB), nVidia GeForce RTX5060 8GB GDDR7, SoundBlaster X AE5 soundcard, 3 x 4TB Samsung 860 EVO SATA 3 SSD, 2 x 8TB Samsung 870 QVO SATA 3 SSD, 1 x 2TB Samsung 980 Pro NVME PICE4 SSD, 2 X WD 4 TB NVME PCIE3 SSD, 2 X Viewsonic HD monitors, LG Blu-Ray writer. Windows 11 (latest build), currently using Vegas Pro 22 latest build, and limited VP23 use to gauge performance and ease of use differences. Videos come from 2 x Sony HDR CX-405 Cameras, XAVC-S MP4 @ 50Mbps 1080P 60fps video files. (Previously: 2 x Canon HFR800 cameras, MP4 files at 1920 x 1080 60p 35Mbps).

RogerS wrote on 12/9/2025, 3:13 AM

I'd stay with 581.57 until issues with the new driver are resolved.

3POINT wrote on 12/9/2025, 3:40 AM

It seems not a good advice anymore to have always installed the latest driver to solve issues in Vegas...

RogerS wrote on 12/9/2025, 6:24 AM

I don't think any of us recommend that these days; unless there's a problem driver version or it's totally out of date they're pretty much all the same.

3POINT wrote on 12/9/2025, 6:54 AM

Personally I never saw a difference in Vegas behavior after updating a graphic card driver. Since updates are very regularly, I not always update immediately (never change a running system), luckily in this case.

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 12/9/2025, 10:05 AM

What @3POINT said. My desktop and laptop were on Win11 23H2 which I've been updating the last few days. 1st to 24H2 and last night to 25H2. Took the opportunity to benchmark my laptop (12900H/3060) each step of the way with vp22 and 23. My Nvidia driver started with 577.00 and I went to 581.57 before 591.44. The benchmarks didn't change much. Only significant variation was the old Sony Red Car which was 2 sec faster on vp22 than vp23 across the board but would not render nvenc with on vp22 with 591.44 on any version of win11. Magix Sample Project and Ivar Fanmade showed no significant differences.

I'm thinking the big performance improvement I get from vp23 on my multicam concert projects might be mostly from better Nvidia 4k hevc 4:2:0 processing.

Craig-Rogers wrote on 12/31/2025, 10:09 AM

Did anyone go up to the new 591.59 after rolling back from 581.57?

RogerS wrote on 12/31/2025, 9:10 PM

No because rendering still won't work in VP 22 and older.

Craig-Rogers wrote on 1/2/2026, 5:42 AM

No because rendering still won't work in VP 22 and older.

I have a horrible thought that this will never be fixed going forward.

Eric-Weichhart wrote on 1/5/2026, 1:30 PM

Considering the recent availability of VP 22 in Humble Bundle, and the current bugs on VP 23 that still persists, I do have the small hope that they could update the encoder.