Nvidia crushes CPU-gobbling bug with new GeForce driver

Typically new graphics drivers are presupposed to make your pc go, within the parlance of the widespread man, sooner. But anybody who’s been a PC gamer lengthy sufficient is aware of this isn’t all the time so. Take the final Game Ready Driver from Nvidia, which had the unintended impact of spiking some customers’ CPUs even after they’d closed their video games. According to Nvidia representatives, the problem has been patched out within the newest model of the driver, which you’ll be able to obtain now. We’re already seeing it mechanically provided by way of GeForce Experience.

For the sake of reference, the issue driver was 531.18, launched on February twenty eighth, which obtained an preliminary hotfix in model 531.26 every week later. The newest replace is model 531.29, which takes issues a step additional by fixing two extra recently-discovered glitches: stability points on some laptops with older GTX graphics playing cards, and stability for Adobe software program from the preliminary February replace. (And since Creative Suite applications aren’t probably the most steady instruments at the most effective of instances, I’m positive it’s a lot appreciated.)

Anything that even marginally slows down your pc tends to get the eye of PC avid gamers, however this type of hiccup in gradual driver enhancements isn’t uncommon. AMD not too long ago had a a lot larger if much less widespread challenge, when drivers for its new RX 7900 collection of playing cards began blowing up complete Windows installations. Thankfully that, too, was resolved.

Author: Michael Crider, Staff Writer