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[OceanicWaterHorse]

RTX 3070, Ryzen 5600, 16GB. GeForce Driver 546.33

I noticed my PC has been slowing down and the task manager performance tab showed most of my RAM was being used, even though nothing is running. Over 9GB was assigned to non-paged pool RAM. After trawling around in Details I saw that the greatest user was nvcontainer.exe. Forcing an end program cleaned up the paged and non-paged RAM and the system performs well again.

However, I have noticed that the non-paged pool and paged pool keep growing unless I periodically end nvcontainer.exe.

Any idea what might be happening and how to stop it? I tried installing and reinstalling the GeForce Experience but that has made no difference.

 

[Spukc]

Time to get a 4090

 

[Spyxos]

Time to get a 4090

at least 2 of them.


Maybe try Revo uninstaller and Display driver uninstaller.

 

[kruis]

Do you have ShadowPlay enabled in Geforce Experience perhaps?

I'd also completely remove the Nvidia driver using Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) and then reinstall a fresh Nvidia driver.

 

[IFireflyl]

Out of curiosity, do you happen to have NZXT's CAM software running?

 

[rodrigolfp]

Not really related but do you have XMP enabled in BIOS?

 

[nkarafo]

Uninstall all NVIDIA stuff with DDU. Re-install the drivers without the Geforce Experience bloat.

 

[Magic Carpet]

It's Google and Youtube using your computer while you have Ad Block enabled and a youtube tab opened. Don't even need to be playing a video,
I prefer this over seeing ads. Sure google, mine away while I keep the ads away.

 

[OceanicWaterHorse]

Thanks for the suggestions. I will try DDU.

I removed Ublock and other extension, but that made no difference.

 

[RoboFu]

More bad nvidia drivers.

 

[WitchHunter]

Never had an issue like this. Jensen Huang is inside your computer and fetching bitcoins with your card. That nvcontainer.exe could be anywhere, go to file location and check whether it's a signed process and sits where nvidia drivers should be.

Use this:

Process Explorer - Sysinternals

Find out what files, registry keys and other objects processes have open, which DLLs they have loaded, and more.

learn.microsoft.com

 

[OceanicWaterHorse]

So, I uninstalled all the Nvidia stuff and reinstalled it, but the same problem occurred.

Then I just uninstalled GeForce Experience and the problem is gone, with 500MB less in the non-paged pool. Very strange. Thanks for all of your help and suggestions, apart from buying a 4090!

Dare I install the new GeForce App? Yes, I probably will just to see what happens.

 

[hlm666]

They are ending geforce experience by the looks. Either leave it uninstalled and wait for release or go grab the nv app for the new driver release.

edit: i'll be less lazy. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/software/nvidia-app/