Grab Nvidia and AMD's new GPU drivers here to save your CPU and maybe even your Windows install
It was only a matter of time before AMD and Nvidia responded to their bad driver days, and both have dropped a new release on the same day which should mitigate problems with both Radeon and GeForce GPUs. Though one is an actual fix, the other just bakes in a previously announced workaround.
Nvidia's new 531.26 GeForce Hotfix driver is dedicated to ridding its users of an annoying bug that caused the Nvidia Container software to eat up more than its fair share of CPU resources on exiting a game.
We only reported on the double GPU driver issue(opens in new tab) a couple of days ago, so it hasn't taken the green team long to address it. The earlier workarounds were none to onerous, to be fair—either rolling back to a previous driver or just ending the Nvidia Container task in Task Manager—but it's good to see it being nixed entirely. I've certainly not noticed any abnormal CPU usage since updating my system anyways.
You'll need to navigate to Nvidia's customer help pages here(opens in new tab) to find the download link at the moment. As it's a hotfix you won't necessarily find it popping up as an update in GeForce Experience, or via the driver search pages on Nvidia's own sites, so this is currently the only place to find it.
It's a light touch driver update with only a couple of notes:
GeForce hotfix display driver version 531.26 is based on our latest Game Ready Driver 531.18 (opens in new tab) .
This hotfix addresses the following issues:
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