Bug in NVIDIA Game Ready Driver 531.18 Causing High CPU Utilization

TheDeeGee · Mar 7, 2023

If everyone is going to disable this telemetry because they're paranoid, then Nvidia drivers will sure go to hell quality wise.

trparky · Mar 7, 2023

TheDeeGee said:
If everyone is going to disable this telemetry because they're paranoid, then Nvidia drivers will sure go to hell quality wise.

You act like they aren't already.

Deleted member 211755 · Mar 7, 2023

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!

You can just block it with your firewall and be done with it. That's why I never experienced this bug. No connection, no telemetry sent.

TheDeeGee said:
If everyone is going to disable this telemetry because they're paranoid, then Nvidia drivers will sure go to hell quality wise.

There are people like me who block a lot of stuff not cause of paranoia,
but just because we want all the bandwidth we can get.

Luke357 · Mar 7, 2023

spanjaman said:
You can just block it with your firewall and be done with it. That's why I never experienced this bug. No connection, no telemetry sent.

There are people like me who block a lot of stuff not cause of paranoia,
but just because we want all the bandwidth we can get.

What are the addresses to block?

Deleted member 211755 · Mar 7, 2023

Luke357 said:
What are the addresses to block?

Block the process entirely; no need to block specific ports or address spaces.
No part of the driver other than the telemetry needs internet access
and telemetry not communicating won't break your drivers or anything like that.

tabascosauz · Mar 8, 2023

W1zzard said:
right .. maybe that ensures the DLL never gets loaded

Looks like that's not the case, unfortunately, as the bug did come back a few hours later. Not a problem anyways as the hotfix is out, but does make me wonder what exactly NVCleanstall does when it says it "disables" driver telemetry

W1zzard · Mar 8, 2023

tabascosauz said:
Looks like that's not the case, unfortunately, as the bug did come back a few hours later.

Still good feedback

tabascosauz said:
Not a problem anyways as the hotfix is out, but does make me wonder what exactly NVCleanstall does when it says it "disables" driver telemetry

It sets an existing flag in the NVIDIA driver inf file to "true"

umeng2002 · Mar 8, 2023

I had the bug, and deleted the offending file. But then I used nvcleanstall and enabled the remove telemetry option, and that takes care of the issue too.

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.

trparky · Mar 8, 2023

Apparently, nVidia has come up with a fix for this issue. Waiting for NVCleanInstall to get the update.

umeng2002 · Mar 11, 2023

Actually after more testing, nvcleanstall DIDN'T fix the issue. in the bugged driver. So I installed the hotfix driver with nvcleanstall. You don't need to wait for nvcleanstall to update. Download the hotfix and tell nvcleanstall to use the downloaded exe.

Deleted member 211755 · Mar 12, 2023

Just block the telemetry by your firewall...
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.

Klemc · Mar 13, 2023

Why NVCleanstal has option to disable MPOs ?

umeng2002 · Mar 15, 2023

Klemc · Mar 15, 2023

umeng2002 said:
Yes

But why please ?

umeng2002 · Mar 17, 2023

In case it causes issues.

Klemc · Mar 17, 2023

Allright.

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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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!

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