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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) within the local user context. 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:	0.00009657%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00007168%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00002488%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	975,006 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
CPU cycles:	19,069/sec	17,470,203/sec
Context switches:	1/sec	284/sec
Memory
Private memory:	6.1 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	11.86 MB
Private (minimum):	6.77 MB
Non-paged memory:	6.1 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	79.68 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	84.91 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	7.44 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	19.22 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	7,649/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	8 Bytes/sec	1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:	1/sec	343/min
I/O other transfer:	114 Bytes/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	6/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	6	12
Handles:	159	600
GUI GDI count:	20	103
GUI GDI peak:	24	142
GUI USER count:	9	49
GUI USER peak:	9	71