Nvidia released a new driver update for its GeForce graphics cards, which includes new video super resolution upscaling technology that improves the appearance of low-resolution videos on high-resolution screens. However, the driver (version 531.18) contained a bug that resulted in high CPU usage on some PCs after the game was run and closed.

 Nvidia has released a display driver hotfix to address recently reported issues with high CPU usage and blue screens in Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems.

 According to the company, GeForce Hotfix driver version 531.26 indicates higher CPU usage from the NVIDIA container, which was observed on some laptop models after performing random bug checks by exiting the game.

Nvidia released driver hotfixes to address Windows performance issues


 Patched drivers for the Windows 10 x64 and Windows 11 x64 platforms are available from this customer support page.

 "GeForce Hotfix drivers have been posted from the NVIDIA container to address high CPU usage as well as notebook stability," said GeForce Game Ready Drivers SPM Sean Pelletier.

  This hotfix fixes the GeForce Game Ready 531.18 WHQL driver bug released on February 28 in order to support RTX video super resolution.

 Another recent software bug in Nvidia's drivers caused games to run slowly when the Discord app was opened in the background; Application profile issue preventing GPU memory from reaching maximum clock speed, resulting in reduced frame rates. This fix can be silently ported to PCs running Nvidia software, but installing the fix for the CPU usage bug requires downloading and installing Nvidia's standard 850MB driver package.

 Affected users who do not wish to install today's hotfix may reduce game crashes and general OS performance issues by killing the NVIDIA container process via the Windows Task Manager until the fix is added to the Game Ready driver release.

 To fix BSOD, use the following steps to roll back the driver:

 Press the Start button.

Open "Device Manager" by searching for it.

Double-click Display adapters.

Double click on NVIDIA GPU.

Navigate to the Driver tab.

Select "Roll Back Driver".