NVIDIA confirms that the 430.39 driver update causes the CPU usage to be too high

Recently, NVIDIA released graphics driver 430.39, the most notable of which is the introduction of support for the advanced coloring technology Variable Rate Shading released by Microsoft a few weeks ago. However, according to user feedback from the NVIDIA support community, the 430.39 driver update caused the CPU usage to be too high, and the culprit was the nvcontainer process.

A user explains, “Can confirm high CPU usage after driver update. Happened to me with some previous drivers before, too. I solved it by ending the nvidia container task through task manager.”

“We are having problems reproducing the higher CPU usage bug again. For users who saw this problem after updating to driver 430.39, can you tell me if you are also using a 3rd party GPU utility in the background (MSI Afterburner, EVGA Precision, etc.)?”

Fortunately, NVIDIA has acknowledged this problem and said it is working hard to solve this problem. In a forum post, NVIDIA employees claim to be able to collect the above errors and begin to fix the problem. NVIDIA has not announced any solutions to this problem, but users can roll back to the previous version to avoid this problem until NVIDIA fixes it.