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The Driver Helper Service is used in configuring a PC's GPU drivers for video graphics cards. They provide the ability to override OpenGL refresh rates through via Control Panel in the display properties. It also provides functionality to manage the GPU's refresh rates via the built-in refresh forcer utility.

nvvsvc.exe runs as a service under the name NVIDIA Driver Helper Service (NVSvc) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). The file is digitally signed by NVIDIA Corporation which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00064727%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00050601%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00014126%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	242 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
CPU cycles:	19,277/sec	17,470,203/sec
Context switches:	1/sec	284/sec
Memory
Private memory:	4.68 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	10.74 MB
Private (minimum):	7.92 MB
Non-paged memory:	4.68 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	80.17 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	84.02 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	8.24 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	12.45 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	4,146/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	1.89 KB/sec	1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:	1/sec	343/min
I/O write transfer:	402 Bytes/sec	274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:	1/sec	227/min
I/O other transfer:	372 Bytes/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	2/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	6	12
Handles:	152	600
GUI GDI count:	14	103
GUI GDI peak:	19	142
GUI USER count:	8	49
GUI USER peak:	8	71

NVSVC64.DLL
Total CPU:	0.01174167%	0.272967%
Kernel CPU:	0.01118519%	0.107585%
User CPU:	0.00055648%	0.165382%
CPU cycles:	300,241/sec	5,741,424/sec
Context switches:	2/sec	79/sec
Memory:	2.87 MB	1.16 MB
ole32.dll
Total CPU:	0.00038022%
Kernel CPU:	0.00000000%
User CPU:	0.00038022%
CPU cycles:	10,363/sec
Memory:	2.01 MB
nvvsvc.exe (main module)
Total CPU:	0.00030958%
Kernel CPU:	0.00019857%
User CPU:	0.00011101%
CPU cycles:	5,497/sec
Memory:	992 KB
nvapi64.dll (NVIDIA Windows drivers by NVIDIA)
Total CPU:	0.00014083%
Kernel CPU:	0.00014083%
User CPU:	0.00000000%
CPU cycles:	77/sec
Memory:	2.24 MB
ntdll.dll
Total CPU:	0.00010757%
Kernel CPU:	0.00008246%
User CPU:	0.00002511%
CPU cycles:	1,882/sec
Memory:	1.66 MB
sechost.dll (Host for SCM/SDDL/LSA Lookup APIs by Microsoft)
Total CPU:	0.00008172%
Kernel CPU:	0.00008172%
User CPU:	0.00000000%
CPU cycles:	850/sec
Memory:	124 KB