Nvidia Driver Bug Might Make Your CPU Work Harder After You Close Your Game

An anonymous reader shares a report: Nvidia released a new driver update for its GeForce graphics cards that, among other things, introduced a new Video Super Resolution upscaling technology that could make low-resolution videos look better on high-resolution screens. But the driver (version 531.18) also apparently came with a bug that caused high CPU usage on some PCs after running and then closing a game. Nvidia has released a driver hotfix (version 531.26) that acknowledges and should fix the issue, which was apparently being caused by an undisclosed bug in the "Nvidia Container," a process that exists mostly to contain other processes that come with Nvidia's drivers. It also fixes a "random bugcheck" issue that may affect some older laptops with GeForce 1000-series or MX250 and MX350 GPUs.

Twice the work

[samwichse]

Might even make your CPU work twice as hard
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]

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[arbiter1]

So they got in small part AMD's gpu bug where cpu works harder in general?

Twice the work.

[corrosive_nf]

Nothing like a repost. Editors already calling it a weekend?

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[NoWayNoShapeNoForm]

It must be 3-beer Friday in California.

Haiku.

[Narcocide]

NVidia caught
sandbagging the old hardware
shocked I say, just shocked

Bugcheck

[Dwedit]

Note that "Bugcheck" literally means BSOD.

someone tell nvidia

[drinkypoo]

the latest version they're showing on the website for 10xx is still 531.18

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[NobleNobbler]

Thanks for the link. Why didn't they make this an official release I wonder

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[ChoGGi]

I'd guess that involves more money/time.

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[drinkypoo]

Oh, it's only Windows? Thanks anyway then, I'm sure it will help some poor sucker

filthy casuals ;-)

[OrangeTide]

who else would quit a game?

Or Did they Mine?

[BrendaEM]

No, it's better not to be trusting.