Nvidia rushes hotfix after bad GeForce driver broke Windows 10's Start menu, apps

A new driver has already fixed the problems.

Excited PC gamers found that out over the weekend when they downloaded the GeForce 375.57 driver. Nvidia’s new driver was meant to make systems game ready for Battlefield 1, Civilization 6, and the release of Titanfall 2 coming up on Friday.

What gamers received instead was a bundle of headaches. Taking to the Nvidia subreddit, Windows 10 gamers complained of 375.57 causing select Windows Store apps to crash, the inability to drag and drop Start menu tiles without their system freaking out, and image artifacts in GIFs and videos.

To its credit, Nvidia (mostly) pulled driver 375.57 and rolled out a newer one—version 375.63—relatively quickly. This new driver appears to function just fine and doesn’t contain the same problems as its predecessor.