Paraview display is completely corrupted with white/grey triangles after a driver update

lockan · March 13, 2026, 7:08pm

ParaView not working with NVIDIA driver 595

Severe graphical issues in the render view when upgrading to latest 595 NVIDIA driver. Rolled back to 582.16 and both 5.13.3 and 6.1.0-RC1 now work again. Also Optix is not available when using recent driver releases (>582). Running on Lenovo P620 workstation with Windows 11 and RTX A4500.

mwestphal · March 23, 2026, 1:59pm

Another user reports the same. Lets hope NVIDIA fixes this soon.

lockan · March 24, 2026, 5:23pm

Has this been reported to NVIDIA? I’m not sure what the mechanism for that might be?

mwestphal · March 24, 2026, 5:24pm

I’m afraid I have no idea how to report a driver issue to NVIDIA.

cory.quammen · March 24, 2026, 5:41pm

I reached out to some contacts at NVIDIA to bring their attention to this issue.

lockan · March 24, 2026, 5:43pm

Fantastic, thank you Cory!

cory.quammen · April 1, 2026, 1:47pm

I don’t know the exact version of 595 you tried, but there appears to be a version released since your initial report:

If you are able, it would be great to know if that version resolves the issue.

lockan · April 1, 2026, 9:40pm

Nope, still the same issue I’m afraid:

lockan · April 1, 2026, 9:43pm

So, just to be clear, neither 595.71 or 595.97 are working. And I tried them with both 5.13.3 and 6.1.0-RC1:

cory.quammen · April 1, 2026, 9:52pm

Thank you for trying this. I submitted a bug to NVIDIA and will update it with the driver version info you provided.

lockan · April 1, 2026, 10:02pm

I have also just ‘rolled back’ to 582.41, a new driver in the 580 branch and that still works.

cory.quammen · April 3, 2026, 1:48pm

Thanks for the info about the drivers that work.

NVIDIA suggests enabling this setting: NVIDIA Control Panel → Mange 3D Settings → Global Preset → Workstation App - Dynamic Streaming

Could you see if that works with the 595 driver?

cory.quammen · April 6, 2026, 10:39am

NVIDIA has confirmation that the workaround resolves the problem, so no need to do this. They want to fix the underlying issue so the workaround is not needed.

cory.quammen · April 7, 2026, 11:32am

NVIDIA reports that the fix for ParaView will be soon available in next R595 GA , scheduled for an April 28 posting.

lockan · April 7, 2026, 2:18pm

Fantastic, thanks Cory!

lockan · April 10, 2026, 6:52pm

By the way this setting doesn’t show up in either NVIDIA Control Panel, or in their Profile Inspector

jverdicchio · April 13, 2026, 5:42pm

I found the “Dynamic Streaming” here:

and it appears to have fixed the problem

lockan · April 28, 2026, 3:18pm

@cory.quammen I just wanted to conform that NVIDIA driver 596.36 has fixed the graphical glitches, but OPTIX is no longer available in the list of Ray Tracing Back Ends. I will therefore still have to use the 580 branch. (Using the Dynamic Streaming workaround made no difference to the availability of OPTIX)

eugeneswalker · April 28, 2026, 5:40pm

I am seeing this issue in Ubuntu 26.04 using NVIDIA 595.58 driver installed from Index of /compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2604/x86_64 … Xfce– I don’t see an updated driver available (yet) today – is one expected for Linux / ubuntu 26.04?

TimGerrits · May 12, 2026, 9:57pm

Just stumbled across this issue as well. Optix option is still missing in ParaView 6.1, Win 11, driver version 596.49 which was just released today.