NVIDIA Releases 531.26 Hotfix for CPU Usage Bug

[Fouquin]

NVIDIA was quick to respond to the reported CPU usage bug present in Game Ready Driver 531.18 and has issued Hotfix Driver 531.26 which claims to resolve the issue. This release still includes the new RTX Video Super Resolution AI upscaling feature introduced with 531.18, which you can use with RTX 30 and 40 series cards in conjunction with Chrome or Edge internet browsers. Below are the release notes.

This hotfix addresses the following issues:

• Higher CPU usage from NVIDIA Container might be observed after exiting a game [4007208]
• [Notebook] Random bugcheck may be observed on certain laptops with GeForce GTX 10/MX250/350 series GPUs [4008527]

GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 531.26 can be found here, available for Windows 10 and 11 x64.



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[P4-630]

I'll just wait for the next official driver...
I haven't seen this affecting my system.

 

[erek]

Thank you

 

[thesmokingman]

Finally!

 

[Space Lynx]

that was fast

 

[izy]

I cant find it in NVCleaninstall.

 

[mobiuus]

I'll just wait for the next official driver...
I haven't seen this affecting my system.

i also don't have that issue probably because i did not install that bloatware called geforce expirience

 

[mouacyk]

I used NVCleanstall and unchecked all telemetry options and it affected me. Which is odd.

 

[Fluffmeister]

I just installed the drivers as I always do... via GeForce Experience (The Horror!), ironically no issues so I won't be grabbing the hotfix.

 

[Hyderz]

Downloaded and installed the update via GeForce experience no issues at all, played around the video super resolution with YouTube 144p, 240p and 360p on my 1080p monitor id say it’s pretty impressive at 360p is quite sharp the lower resolution is not bad too, just a bit of funzies tinkering

 

[Mussels]

Does it fix the BSOD's and driver crashes?

 

[R0H1T]

Can it fix the 240+ (W) power draw on youtube

Spoiler

Yes for RTX video super resolution

 

[Bomby569]

had zero issue with it, no weird cpu usage during or after gameplay and i'm on 531.18

 

[Enkur]

Glad they are fixing this as I saw my CPU spiking in a weird way lately and looking at the tasks monitor it was the NVcontainer or some process like that which I manually killed.

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Hope that the Linux driver skips this bug (We're still on the 525 series over here).

 

[skates]

Does it fix the BSOD's and driver crashes?

It did not fix driver specific crashes on BF 2042 for me. The only driver which is stable that I have found is 528.02, but again, my GPU crashes when playing BF 2042 and every consistent.

It did not fix driver specific crashes on BF 2042 for me. The only driver which is stable that I have found is 528.02, but again, my GPU crashes when playing BF 2042 and every consistent.

528.02 fixed the GPU driver crashes in that game for me, so you could try it for any GPU driver crashes.

 

[Mussels]

I'm playing BL3 at the moment after the recent sale on it, and the previous driver was giving stutters that turned out to be driver crashes - the PC would often recover fast enough the game kept running, but not always and sometimes i'd do something like alt-tab and get a black and white checkerboard windows UI
Tried to screenshot it and the PC rebooted, rolled back and zero troubles

I might wait another version or two

 

[Selaya]

it's still not uploaded to tpu btw

 

[Mussels]

it's still not uploaded to tpu btw

I'm not sure if the hotfixes are, usually