Security News > 2023 > March > Nvidia working on driver fix for Windows BSOD, high CPU usage
Nvidia confirmed today that it's working to fix a driver issue causing high CPU usage and blue screens of death on Windows systems.
The buggy driver is the GeForce Game Ready 531.18 WHQL driver released on February 28th that introduced support for RTX Video Super Resolution.
This comes after customers have been complaining for days on the company's forums and on social media that the Nvidia Game Session Telemetry Plugin loaded by the Nvidia Display Container service leads to CPU spikes of 10% or more on Windows systems after closing games or rendering apps.
In the Nvidia forum thread asking for feedback on this driver version, users are also reporting experiencing constant blue screens on up-to-date Windows installations and that reverting to an older driver version fixes the BSOD problems.
"After performing a"clean installation" of this latest driver on a Lenovo P17 running fully upgraded Windows 11 with an NVIDIA RTX A5000, I then encountered three hard kernel crashes, as well as two game crashes in the three days I ran this release," one user said.
Nvidia already has added this to its list of open issues for this driver version which says that "Higher CPU usage from NVIDIA Container might be observed after exiting a game."