PC avid gamers love efficiency, and that efficiency isn’t limted to video games themselves. So when a few of them began noticing abnormally excessive CPU utilization after the newest Nvidia GPU driver replace, it threw up some pink flags. After a little bit of investigation, Nvidia itself has confirmed the issue: Some customers are seeing inflated CPU utilization after closing 3D video games, which persists till a reboot.

The firm confirmed the issue with the newest driver replace, 531.18, which was revealed on February twenty eighth. An up to date record of open points (together with some that didn’t make it into the complete launch notes) was posted to Nvidia’s support forum, and noticed by VideoCardz.com. Issue quantity 4007208 reads, “Higher CPU usage from NVIDIA Container may be observed after exiting a game.” Some customers are displaying CPU utilization of as much as 10-15 % in these circumstances — not sufficient to significantly hamper most gaming desktops, however greater than sufficient to be an annoyance, particularly for those who use your PC for different intensive duties. Like opening three Chrome tabs directly.

At the second there’s no simple repair, so the fast resolution for those who’re affected is to roll again your driver to model 528.49 from February eighth, available for manual download here. Hopefully Nvidia will be capable to patch the newer driver sooner fairly than later. Update: In a tweet responding to PCWorld’s protection, Nvidia software program product supervisor Sean Pelletier said the corporate will submit a hotfix for the problem tomorrow, on March 7.

Of course fashionable GPU drivers are stupendously complicated items of software program, and Nvidia isn’t the one one coping with bugs in the intervening time. AMD has a fairly embarrassing situation on its fingers with the newest high-end Radeon playing cards, which beneath the appropriate circumstances, can totally tank a Windows installation. In distinction, Intel appears to be steadily improving the software program facet of its Arc GPUs, that are gaining surprising traction within the price range market.