NVIDIA App Is No Longer in Beta and Is a Step Closer to Replacing GeForce Experience For Driver Updates

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It has been decades since NVIDIA first rolled out its earliest versions of the control panel and just a little over ten years since GeForce Experience left Beta in 2013. Now, their inevitable replacement has just left its Beta phase.

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Saw this in a videocardz article posted on [H]:
  • "Users who don't need the app can skip it, as they’ll still be notified about new drivers through other channels."
  • "NVIDIA isn’t sunsetting the Control Panel, as the official blog post doesn’t mention any changes to it. It seems the company will take time to fully integrate Control Panel features, so users can run both programs simultaneously for now."
(Source: https://hardforum.com/threads/new-nvidia-control-panel-now-in-beta.2033503/post-1045993193)
 
  • "NVIDIA isn’t sunsetting the Control Panel, as the official blog post doesn’t mention any changes to it. It seems the company will take time to fully integrate Control Panel features, so users can run both programs simultaneously for now."
I've had the Control Panel available the entire time I've had the beta Nvidia App installed - I didn't use it much before aside from ensuring that G-Sync settings were correct, and haven't had a need for it since those settings were brought into the App recently.
 
I've spent a considerable amount of time testing this over the last couple of weeks and overall, I'm impressed. It hasn't reinvented the wheel or anything but is mostly easy to use. Once installed it might not be able to optimize the games it has profiles for right away but can usually do so after a day or so. I've got ~25 titles it has profiles for and it has managed to optimize most of them.

The things I like are for the games that support it, the ability to override DLSS with DLAA. This includes games that don't inherently provide that option. I also like that it will by default turn off post processing stuff. You can also configure defaults that will override NVCP settings, either per game or global. Also like that I can grab drivers from here and install as needed.

Cons. It's mixed blessing that it seems to look at your display to configure the best settings for its native resolution. While this can be nice if you plan to do that it doesn't take into consideration that you might perhaps use 1440p instead of 4K for better performance. I also noticed something very weird in that it always defaulted to using the DX11 version of TW3. I sort of get it since you basically have to have an RTX 4090 or similar to play the newer RT version at 4K but I was never able to get it use the DX12 and ironically it would enable the DLAA override for the DX11 version. Not 100% sold on the menu/GUI but it could be worse.

Overall, pretty happy with it and it's definitely better than my previous experiences with GeForce Experience. I plan to somewhat keep using it and I'm honestly surprised at how great it has CP2077 and Indiana Jones running on both rigs but I did manually change the resolution to 1440p for the 4080 SUPER so that I could re-enable all RT settings. Otherwise it really made CP2077 at 4K run great on both cards. I haven't tried it with my laptop yet but perhaps will come next weekend.
 
The things I like are for the games that support it, the ability to override DLSS with DLAA. This includes games that don't inherently provide that option.
This is the first time anyone has gotten me interested in this new nVidia app.
 
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