Security News > 2023 > March > Nvidia releases driver hotfix for Windows performance issues
Nvidia has released a display driver hotfix to address recently reported high CPU usage and blue screen issues on Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems.
As the company explains, the GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 531.26 fixes higher CPU usage from NVIDIA Container that could be observed after exiting games and random bug checks on some laptop models.
You can download the patched driver for the Windows 10 x64 and Windows 11 x64 platforms from this customer support page.
"GeForce Hotfix driver posted to resolve higher CPU utilization from NVIDIA Container as well as a notebook stability fix," GeForce Game Ready Drivers SPM Sean Pelletier said.
The buggy driver this hotfix targets is the GeForce Game Ready 531.18 WHQL driver released on February 28th to introduce RTX Video Super Resolution support.
Until the fix gets added to a Game Ready driver release, affected users who don't want to install today's hotfix can mitigate the game crashes and the general OS performance issues by killing the NVIDIA Container process via the Windows task manager.