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MSI GEFORCE RTX 5050 8GB Nvidia card- sold but not useable? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by jeffjot@lemmy.world to c/nvidia@lemmy.world
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I spent about 2 days and all night with Google AI trying to get this highly recommended NVIDIA RTX 5050 card installed so I could use it with Blender and it finally gave up on me.
I have a Gateway PC.

It said that the card is "So new that the manufacturer hasn't come up with a working driver yet" and to check back in a few weeks maybe. Surely it can't be serious? How can NVIDIA sell graphics cards without a working driver. I spent over $200 on this card :(. Thank god I managed to get my system working again, it almost broke my Blender installation but found a workaround to get it back, but its as slow as ever. I'm stuck with this card and it refuses to run.

The Catch-22 is that it apparently will only run on the latest graphics driver that "just came out this week" but you can't install it with the graphics card inserted, and you can't install it with it not inserted. It freezes forever at loading Ramdisk. All the earlier drivers won't run it either. Wondering if anyone else has bought this card and if it worked.

Of course I have a older system, not incredibly old but dated. I wanted to upgrade my graphics card instead of buying a whole new PC. Thats where spending $200 sounded smart to avoid spending a lot more on a new PC right. Its hugely disappointing. Thanks for any help or experiences.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Assume you've checked the obvious things..

Reseated. That you have enough pci lanes, compatible moba, etc?

Because yes, even now it should work. This doesn't sound like a driver issue. Sounds like either a bad card or bad install.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Does it display anything at all? All GPUs are supposed to work (albeit suboptimally) with a generic driver that should already be installed on your system.

[–] jeffjot@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm going to keep looking for another forum unless anyone else has something to say.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

Maybe don't shit on people who are trying to help and you'll get more replies in the future 💜