The fixes that make it in are based in part on your feedback in the Driver Feedback threads and partly on how realistic it is for us to quickly address them. These drivers are basically the same as the previous released version, with a small number of additional targeted fixes. The GeForce Hotfix driver is our way to trying to get some of these fixes out to you more quickly. Sometimes a change that is important to many users might end up sitting and waiting until we are able to release the driver.

This process has served us pretty well over the years but it has one significant weakness.

Since we have so many changes being checked in, we usually try to align driver releases with significant game or product releases.

These changes are checked into the main driver branches, which are eventually run through a massive QA process and released. We have an army of software engineers constantly adding features and fixing bugs. The company responded with an official statement in their NVIDIA forums about the higher CPU issue reported and a 'random bug check' happening to certain NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10/MX250/350 series graphics cards.Ī GeForce driver is an incredibly complex piece of software.

Random bug check may be observed on certain laptops with GeForce GTX 10/MX250/350 series GPUs.

Higher CPU usage from NVIDIA Container might be observed after exiting a game.

This hotfix addresses the following issues: With this new hotfix, the following issues have been addressed: NVIDIA wants users to understand that the current hotfix driver ( version 531.26, the link will download the EXE file) is in its 'beta' stages and is not considered a final fix by the company. NVIDIA 'hotfixes' heightened CPU usage issues with the newest driver update, warning users that it is a 'beta' level fix and not finalized Today, the company issued a hotfix to fix the problem temporarily. Within a few days of installation, users were coming forward on the internet on several public social media platforms and the NVIDIA forums that their systems were experiencing higher-than-normal CPU usage issues. In that update, one of the stated known issues by the company with CPU usage. NVIDIA responded to an issue of heightened CPU usage on specific systems with its latest driver update (version 531.18).

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