Tuesday, March 7th 2023
Bug in NVIDIA Game Ready Driver 531.18 Causing High CPU Utilization
Last week's release of NVIDIA's Game Ready Driver introduced a new bug with the NVIDIA Display Container process that increases CPU usage by as much as 15% after closing a game. NVIDIA has recently confirmed the bug on their forum in a feedback thread and assigned it a bug track ID of 4007208. The problem appears to stem from a telemetry service known as NvGSTPlugin.dll, or Game Session Telemetry Plugin, which is loaded by NvidiaContainer after a game has been run. Some users are reporting that completely removing the offending .dll solves the problem entirely and a guide on how to do so has been posted on the r/nvidia subreddit in a thread about the release. If that sounds like far too much hassle then the prevailing advice is to simply remain on driver version 528.49 until the issue is resolved. NVIDIA is expected to release a hotfix driver as early as tomorrow to address this and possibly other issues.
Update Mar 7th: NVIDIA issued a hotfix driver release for this bug.
Source:
Tom Warren (Twitter)
Update Mar 7th: NVIDIA issued a hotfix driver release for this bug.
40 Comments on Bug in NVIDIA Game Ready Driver 531.18 Causing High CPU Utilization
The nvcontainer "contains" components for the driver. So you can kill the telemetry without killing the container, which is needed for the driver to work properly. When nVidia started shoving telemetry down everyone's throats, they had the telemetry service separated from other driver components. To try and trick people and stop them from removing the telemetry, nvidia just wrapped everything up including telemetry in the nvcontainer service.
I didn't install the hotfix and I never saw this bug, but I did see on other forums that people with the same GPU (and CPU) had the problem.
Oh, and i had an error message about the HDAudio sleep timer disable option (during install), i have no speakers on my monitor, could be the reason ?
And also, if i set DSR to ON and select reolutions i need, then turn NVContainer sevice OFF and use NvidiaProfileInspector only instead NVCP after, is it good ?
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EDIT :
R0H1T said:
You can simply disable it as a service, enable when you need to open the Nvidia control panel. You don't need to run it to enable the display driver, in fact it's one of the most disposable component from the driver package!