PSA: If you are having stability issues ...

... and are Nvidia user you might want to watch this video and check your driver version

Its a 20+ min video from a gamer channel that doesn't really talk about resolve specifically , and other than relatively common advice of clean uninstall of old drivers before installing new ones, and for non gamers this would be studio drivers, there is noting really new there.

One should try to use something like Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) to do a clean install of studio drivers for nVidia. And main issue I've seen and recommended solution to people seem to be that some nVidia GPU's have a preset for settings that if its set to something other than Video Editing and 3D causes issues, especially with UI elements not showing up completely rendered. Like polygon tool which was commonly reported. Mainly problems in Fusion. This was also mainly the case with Resolve/Fusion 19. Not sure about version 20. Solution was to change preset for settings in the nVidia Control panel.

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Other than changing that setting after clean install of studio drivers, I've not seen much other problems or solutions.

There are people mentioning problem with Neural Engine optimization, but I'm not sure what the issue with that is, I don't have any.

Its a 20+ min video from a gamer channel that doesn't really talk about resolve specifically , and other than relatively common advice of clean uninstall of old drivers before installing new ones, and for non gamers this would be studio drivers, there is noting really new there.

It seems you missed / didn't pay attention to what was being said and big picture. Big picture is that there seems to be rash of stability issues with drivers post 566.36 version.

Just because his main focus is/was games that doesn't mean other apps are immune from whatever is causing them. Many parts of video card / hardware drivers and Windows (multi-monitor handling, G-Sync handling, etc.) are utilized by practically _any_ application, whether that is game or something else.

FWIW I have heavy experience with systems, especially ones in data centers, and I pay close attention to what gaming community, especially certain people and channels, raise red flag about. Them and few others (like mining one) put their systems through wringers with extreme scrutiny like no others so. I wouldn't be dismissing them so easily because "they are gamers".

Case in point? It wasn't video editor users that were bringing to attention issues with Intel's CPUs burning out. By your token of logic data center people or video editors shouldn't have paid attention to him because he is gaming channel. Yet their CPUs were burning out too for same reason as gamers' one did.

Same thing with 4090 connectors melting. Or with 5090 load not being balanced across wires. It was gamers and his channel that were among the first.

Also, he isn't talking about how to use DDU as a common advice before installing new drivers, one of the things he is recommending is rolling back to 566.36 (or earlier, known as stable, version) and is showing how to do that using DDU.

Its a 20+ min video from a gamer channel that doesn't really talk about resolve specifically , and other than relatively common advice of clean uninstall of old drivers before installing new ones, and for non gamers this would be studio drivers, there is noting really new there.

One should try to use something like Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) to do a clean install of studio drivers for nVidia. And main issue I've seen and recommended solution to people seem to be that some nVidia GPU's have a preset for settings that if its set to something other than Video Editing and 3D causes issues, especially with UI elements not showing up completely rendered. Like polygon tool which was commonly reported. Mainly problems in Fusion. This was also mainly the case with Resolve/Fusion 19. Not sure about version 20. Solution was to change preset for settings in the nVidia Control panel.

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Other than changing that setting after clean install of studio drivers, I've not seen much other problems or solutions.

There are people mentioning problem with Neural Engine optimization, but I'm not sure what the issue with that is, I don't have any.

What is the advantage of changing the 3D global setting to 3D Viedo Editing?

What is the advantage of changing the 3D global setting to 3D Viedo Editing?

There are quite a few threads and posts now of people who had issues with UI elements, especially in fusion. Half drawn or glitchy overlays in the viewer mostly and similar problems. After first few months, and various back and forth, it was discovered by users that changing this preset solves the issue. I personally don't have a GPU that has this option but I've recommend it to many users who had the issue and they all claim it solve the problem. Why it happens is not clear to me, but I would assume that various setting found in the NVIDIA control panel are probably more geared towards games, and probably override settings that are critical to more professional applications, such as 3D and video editing and photo editing etc. I generally tend to use "let 3D application decide" option or apply custom setting for specific applications. I prefer to leave application choose its own settings it is optimized for than NVIDIA overriding it.

What is the advantage of changing the 3D global setting to 3D Viedo Editing?

There are quite a few threads and posts now of people who had issues with UI elements, especially in fusion. Half drawn or glitchy overlays in the viewer mostly and similar problems. After first few months, and various back and forth, it was discovered by users that changing this preset solves the issue. I personally don't have a GPU that has this option but I've recommend it to many users who had the issue and they all claim it solve the problem. Why it happens is not clear to me, but I would assume that various setting found in the NVIDIA control panel are probably more geared towards games, and probably override settings that are critical to more professional applications, such as 3D and video editing and photo editing etc. I generally tend to use "let 3D application decide" option or apply custom setting for specific applications. I prefer to leave application choose its own settings it is optimized for than NVIDIA overriding it.

Thanks for the information.