Graphical glitches all over the place in both game and editor - Nvidia drivers 572.16+ regression (fixed in 572.60)

[francogp]

Bugsquad edit: This issue has been confirmed many times already, and it's a problem with the latest Nvidia 572.16+ drivers. A lot of Vulkan applications seem to be affected, and Nvidia is aware of the problem.

Fixed in Nvidia driver 572.60, please upgrade your drivers.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/241091/

There's nothing we can do on the Godot side to mitigate this, so affected users can either:

• Roll back the driver to a previous version
• Wait for Nvidia to update their drivers with a fix
• Configure Godot to use Direct3D 12 instead of Vulkan (set rendering/rendering_device/driver.windows to d3d12)
• Refer to the official Nvidia feedback thread for updates: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/556258/geforce-grd-57216-feedback-thread-released-13025/

Please do not add comments to this issue only to confirm that you're also affected, the issue is already known. Instead, you can upvote this post to indicate that you're also affected.

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Tested versions

• Tested on Godot 4.3, 4.4beta1 and 4.4beta2

System information

(Forward+) 4.3 - 4.4beta2, Windows 11, latest Nvidia drivers 572.16 - GeForce 30XX

Issue description

Since latest nvidia drivers update, texture filtering get a lot of glitches on godot only. My games and IDE included.
The GLITCHES moves (pixels start to jump on X coords) when you pan or move the camera.

Applying NEAREST filter shows the problem. It affect shaders too.
Applying LINEAR filter seems to HIDE the problem in lots of cases.

2025-01-30.20-33-12.mp4

Steps to reproduce

Just open an empty project with the default sprite can reproduce the problem

Minimal reproduction project (MRP)

Just open an empty project with the default sprite can reproduce the problem

[clayjohn]

Can you check your driver settings and ensure that there are is no contrast boosting / sharpening setting? I had a similar issue a few years ago (but with an AMD graphics card) and the problem turned out to be that AMD had quietly enabled contrast boost in all games and the Godot editor was accidentally included.

I think this would be the setting to turn off https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4920/~/how-to-enable-image-sharpening-in-the-nvidia-control-panel

[francogp]

Can you check your driver settings and ensure that there are is no contrast boosting / sharpening setting? I had a similar issue a few years ago (but with an AMD graphics card) and the problem turned out to be that AMD had quietly enabled contrast boost in all games and the Godot editor was accidentally included.

I think this would be the setting to turn off https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4920/~/how-to-enable-image-sharpening-in-the-nvidia-control-panel

It is not enabled, I tested also creating a profile for godot, and force disabling that feature, but the problem continues.
Also tested with my other PC with a Geforce 2080, but the problem cannot be reproduced there

[AeioMuch]

I can confirm the issue on latest Nvidia driver version 572.16 on Windows 10 and a 3060, only with Forward+ & Mobile rendering methods. Edit : Tested using DirectX12 and the issue is not there. So it's related to Vulkan.

The option @clayjohn mentionned is not available in the Nvidia control panel unless you enable integer scaling which is not enabled by default, and if you enable it, the option is disabled by default, so it is not that.

[clayjohn]

Could you look for other sharpening settings? I don't have an NVidia card so I don't know what is there, I just found that link with a quick Google search.

[francogp]

Could you look for other sharpening settings? I don't have an NVidia card so I don't know what is there, I just found that link with a quick Google search.

there's only one, and in my case is disabled in general, and in a particular profile for godot too (just in case).

[mrjustaguy]

Is Godot the only Vulkan thing you've got to test?

Given my experiences while i was on a 1050 ti Nvidia constantly breaks stuff at totally random, which has especially been the case for OpenGL (which at few points refused to run at all) and Vulkan.

If you roll back drivers, do the issues get resolved? If so it's better to just bug report to Nvidia, there's likely nothing we can do.

[AeioMuch]

Yes rolling back to 566.36 fix the issue of course.

Is Godot the only Vulkan thing you've got to test?

The issue is also present in Doom + Doom II using Vulkan, nothing else installed right now that use Vulkan, but I checked the issue council of Star Citizen and there's an issue with lots and lots of reports about this driver version and the same visual glitches when using Vulkan.

Yes it should be reported to Nvidia and they are probably already aware imo, but it's good to have this issue here in case others have the same problem, they can refer to it.

[francogp]

Is Godot the only Vulkan thing you've got to test?

Given my experiences while i was on a 1050 ti Nvidia constantly breaks stuff at totally random, which has especially been the case for OpenGL (which at few points refused to run at all) and Vulkan.

If you roll back drivers, do the issues get resolved? If so it's better to just bug report to Nvidia, there's likely nothing we can do.

I already did the report to nvidia, and give a reference to this thread.

[Conz3D]

Yep, can confirm, that there is a massive bug in the lates nvidia (studio) drivers. Found this thread on discord.
I have glitches with my 3060 in the editor and in my app. (Win10)

In bug01 you can see the check boxes and the Button (in the editor) has a glitched pixel column. In my app (bug02 and 03) you can see no AA in project settings (no bug) and MSAA2D 2x (same for 4x) settings with bugged line, see the x-axis (draw_line in Godot, x start and end are 100% equal).

[francogp]

I created a report to nvidia support, and they insist that the correct place to complain about this, is this thread: Please, upvoat my report or create others.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/556258/geforce-grd-57216-feedback-thread-released-13025/3495991/