ParaView not working with NVIDIA driver 595

lockan · March 13, 2026, 7:08pm

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.