NVIDIA App May Reduce Game Performance by up to 15%, New Benchmarks Suggest

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The NVIDIA App, a new application that green team officially rolled out in November to modernize and unify its older Control Panel, GeForce Experience, and RTX Experience apps, may result in significantly reduced performance in some of today's hottest games, according to new benchmarks that have been shared online.

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Yikes, some poor dev's at Nvidia are going to have a busy holiday season. Actually they won't. They probably won't care, and just drop a fix into the next monthly patch release.
 
Zarathustra said:
Lovely.

Wasn't everyone saying that this was going to be positive for system performance, as the old app was written poorly? :p
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Yea clearly the effed up somewhere. For some reason over on the AMD discord people are bitching because having the app installed was messing even with AMD card performance. (WTF would you have both?)
 
I, honestly, haven't noticed. I keep an FPS counter up in every game and they all run the same. Is this only effecting 4000 series cards?
 
Haven't really tried it yet so I don't know but a bummer anyhow.

Yep, it was also a reason I got rid of GFE back in the day. No matter how powerful of a setup it consistently, needlessly nerfed game settings. I had a few minor success with an old VAIO but after a couple of app updates it just could never figure things out again.
 
It's one specific setting that is on by default, causing the issue, you can easily disable it, which regains the performance loss.

 
Brent_Justice said:
It's one specific setting that is on by default, causing the issue, you can easily disable it, which regains the performance loss.

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Don't tell us the setting. Make us sit through the chatter and explanation to find it. That's much better. ;) I'll watch it when I'm back at the house.
 
Grimlakin said:
Don't tell us the setting. Make us sit through the chatter and explanation to find it. That's much better. ;) I'll watch it when I'm back at the house.
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At least it's only 12 minutes long, and not some 45 minute long rambling number salad.

To save you some time just disable the two options "NVIDIA Overlay" and "Game filters and Photo mode".

I had those options already disabled, so probably why I didn't see any performance issues.
 
Overlay - amazing how often one can cause performance issues, with or without a computer :)

FIlters- a little bit of a bummer as I did try some back when Starfield came out and I was sort of impressed with it.

Photo mode-one of those things just not interested in but I can when I was a kid I probably would've tinkered with.
 
Grimlakin said:
Yea clearly the effed up somewhere. For some reason over on the AMD discord people are bitching because having the app installed was messing even with AMD card performance. (WTF would you have both?)
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Well, I have a laptop with a Ryzen APU in it and also a dedicated Nvidia GPU so that would be one example where both might happen.
 
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