Recently, D5 Render was crashing a lot, and I thought it was related to version 2.10 and path tracing. I tried turning off path tracing and even reverted back to 2.9, but I was still experiencing the same issue.
It was frustrating—after 5 to 10 minutes of working, the GPU would get extremely hot, and the PC would shut down. This morning, I read an article about NVIDIA’s latest driver hotfix, 576.15, which supposedly fixes many bugs.
I manually downloaded and installed the driver from the site, and now D5 works like a charm. I thought I’d share this for anyone who might be experiencing the same issues.
Link to the article (note: the driver download link is included):