Windows 10: "System and Compressed Memory" going to 40% CPU in Win10

Hi,

I know this problem is caused by the latest GeForce driver, I was hoping someone could tell me which version introduced the issue. I have Win10 64-bit on an i5, 16 GB RAM, GTX 570, OS is installed on a SSD. Everything was working fine with Win10, games, apps, ran smoothly and was fast. I have been playing Far Cry 3 and getting 60 FPS. Today I decided to upgrade to the latest Nvidia drivers to see if I could squeeze out a few more FPS (just for fun, didn't really need them). Bad idea. As soon as I installed the Mar 28 2016 GeForce drivers, FC3 lagged like crazy. FPS would jump from 2 to 184 back to 2. The game was super-laggy, unplayable. I spent all day googling, changing options, rebooting, etc... Nothing. Every time I tried to play FC3, I couldn't even launch my previous game it was so laggy. I noticed "System and Compressed Memory" was eating up at least 40% CPU and I knew that was new. That was taking even more than FC3.

So finally I uninstalled the latest Nvidia drivers, which means my system went back to the default Win10 drivers. That worked, system was back to running smoothly. FC3 was back to a constant 60 FPS. I found a forum post which indicated another poster thought it started when Nvidia came out with "Tomb Raider-ready" drivers in Nov 2015. Does anyone have more information about this issue? I would like to get the GeForce drivers back on my system, or at least the latest ones I can before they introduced this issue.

Thanks,
R.

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Windows10 Lag and i mean LAG

Currently I have 1browser open with 3tabs, this page, youtube(video stopped download) and social media(not using) and "Windows Explorer" is using 50% of the CPU and "System and Compressed Memory" is using 30%. 80% of the CPU being used by the system itself...

 

System and Compressed Memory

In Windows 10, "System and Compressed Memory" is holding a compressed copy of other process' memory as one last stage before it is paged out to the disk. It's a new extra layer of caching. If another process is using tons of memory -- as Warcraft was
in your case -- this process is going to be holding some memory on that process' behalf. Closing the process will cause "System and Compressed Memory" to go back down.

 

I have 364.72 installed and I haven't noticed anything fancy. System and compressed memory is using 0% CPU and 0.1% memory. Maybe I am being lucky because it's true I have notice several weird things with latest nVidia drivers (nvidiacpl.dll not registering and such). Running w10 x64 [10586.164] with a GTX 970.