Nvidia has acknowledged that its recently released driver, GeForce Game Ready 531.18 WHQL driver, is causing blue screens of death (BSODs) and high CPU usage on Windows systems.
The driver introduced support for RTX Video Super Resolution but also loaded the Nvidia Game Session Telemetry Plugin (NvGSTPlugin.dll) through the Nvidia Display Container service, which led to CPU spikes of 10% or more on Windows systems after closing games or rendering apps.
Users on Nvidia forums have been complaining about the issue for days. Nvidia has added the issue to its list of open issues for the driver version, and a fix is in the works, which will be released as a hotfix driver as early as the next day.
Users experiencing issues such as Windows BSODs, game crashes, reduced in-game performance, and games not launching should roll back to the older driver version.
Users can also kill the NVIDIA Container process via the Windows task manager to get rid of the general OS lagginess until the fix is released. The driver issue has caused kernel crashes and game crashes, and many users have reverted to the previous version of the driver, which fixed the BSOD problems.
The procedure to roll back the driver on Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices involves clicking the Start button, searching for and opening “Device Manager,” double-clicking on Display Adapters, double-clicking on your NVIDIA GPU, selecting the Driver Tab, and clicking on Roll Back Driver.
Nvidia has assured its customers that it is working on a fix for the driver issue and will release it as soon as possible. In the meantime, users are advised to revert to the older driver version and kill the NVIDIA Container process through the Windows task manager.
