Nvidia confirms latest GeForce driver is causing CPU spikes

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This is important to those that stream a variety of games per stream or have played a game off stream and not rebooted before streaming
May want to rollback your driver till Nvidia finds a fix

Some users are seeing CPU usage go up by 10-15% after closing games on the latest Nvidia driver.

PC gamers love performance, and that performance isn’t limted to games themselves. So when some of them started noticing abnormally high CPU usage after the latest Nvidia GPU driver update, it threw up some red flags. After a bit of investigation, Nvidia itself has confirmed the problem: Some users are seeing inflated CPU usage after closing 3D games, which persists until a reboot.

Nvidia releases fix for GeForce driver causing CPU spikes

Some users are seeing CPU usage go up by 10-15% after closing games on the latest Nvidia driver.

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