Surely at some time we have found that, while we use the computer normally, it has started to go slower than expected, and even to crash and show blue screens. What’s going on? We will have wondered. And as much as we have tried to check everything, we have not found anything strange. And it is that there are times when the fault is not ours, nor a configuration, but a Windows driver, or driver, that is causing a conflict in our system, as has happened this time with the PC’s graphics card.
If we have an NVIDIA graphics card in our computer, surely we have noticed that, lately, the computer has started to show strange behaviors. For example, suddenly the PC has started to go much slower than normal, the fans have shot up, and we have even seen it crash and start showing blue screens. Although they could perfectly well be the symptoms of a virus, in reality it is nothing like that, but rather the latest version of the NVIDIA drivers have arrived in a bad state.
Issues with NVIDIA drivers
The graphics card giant released the past february 28 a new version of the drivers for their RTX graphics cards. This new version of the driver came with a very interesting novelty for all users called RTX Video Super Resolution, which allows you to increase the resolution of any Chrome video, while maintaining quality. In addition, it also fixed bugs and improved compatibility with the latest games on the market, as usual.
However, they have also come up with an error in one of the driver components, specifically in the Nvidia Game Session Telemetry Plugin (NvGSTPlugin.dll). This component is causing users’ processors to have unexplained usage spikes of more than 10% after closing games or rendering programs.
After many headaches, NVIDIA has finally admitted the problems with their new driver, and they have confirmed that they are already working on a solution that should arrive very soon and put an end to these problems.
@tomwarren @aschilling FYI – we’ll be posting a hotfix driver tomorrow with a fix
March 6, 2023 • 21:16
What to do while the solution arrives?
If we are affected by these problems, until the solution arrives we can try to mitigate them manually. For this, the best way is kill NVIDIA Container process by hand from Windows Task Explorer so that all PC performance issues caused by this driver component are eliminated.
Also, if you continue to experience performance issues, game crashes, or blue screens while playing, you can also try downgrading your drivers. To do this, if we still save the installer of the previous version, we must run it to return to the previous version of the drivers. Or, from the device manager, specifically from the graphics adapters section, select the one that corresponds to our graphics card and go back to the previous version.
We remind you that this bug only affects the Game Ready 531.18 WHQL version of the GeForce drivers. If we have a different version, these problems will not affect us.
