NVIDIA GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 531.26 Released with Fix for CPU Usage Bug

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NVIDIA users can now update to the new GeForce Game Ready 531.18 WHQL driver without worrying about the possibility of constant, high CPU usage during idle. As noted in a new support document that NVIDIA published today, green team has released a new hotfix display driver that addresses higher CPU usage after exiting a game, a problem that has been referenced by many users who opened up their Task Managers and found the NVIDIA Container process consistently using 10% or more of their CPU for no real reason. The hotfix also includes a fix that stops random bugchecks on certain notebooks with GeForce GTX 10/MX250/350 GPUs.

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