– Abnormal increase in CPU usage even after the game ends.. Nvidia temporary version distribution
-“I’d rather not update”…some consumers even self-rescue from discomfort
“Nvidia’s bug is overworking your computer.”
Complaints are erupting among users of Nvidia’s ‘Game Ready Driver GeForce’.
As for version 531.18, which was released on the 28th of last month, opinions are pouring in that there are bugs that abnormally increase CPU usage even after the game ends.
When the controversy arose about this, it was reported that Nvidia also took action.
9 days <녹색경제신문>According to the report, it was found that there are quite a few voices pointing out the bugs of Nvidia drivers even among domestic users.
Regarding this, an official in the domestic game industry pointed out, “It seems to be an error caused by memory and process initialization not being properly handled.”
In fact, just by searching for ‘GeForce bug’ on social media such as Twitter, a number of posts mentioning computer slowdowns and automatic shutdown phenomena are confirmed.
Some users, tired of the bug, suggested stopgap solutions, such as blocking automatic updates, deleting the buggy version, and downloading and using the previous version again.
A user of Lost Ark, a game that uses Nvidia drivers, expressed a sense of betrayal, saying, “After updating the driver, the computer stopped and slowed down during the game, so I thought it was a problem with my computer itself.”
American IT media and American community site Reddit also agreed that the cause of these bugs was GeForce Game Ready Driver 531.18 version. Among users who updated to version 531.18, there were reports that they observed that the computer’s processing speed slowed down or that Nvidia’s graphics container used up to 15% of the computer’s CPU power even after closing the game.
Meanwhile, Nvidia has also officially acknowledged the bug. Version 531.18 was aware of a bug that could cause higher CPU usage after the game was closed, and started dealing with the problem. As of the 9th, if you access Nvidia’s official website, you can download a hotfix version (a patch program distributed to fix errors or improve performance, not the official version) of the driver.