Tuesday, December 17th 2024
NVIDIA App Allegedly Degrades Gaming Performance by Up to 15%, But There Is a Fix
Recent testing has revealed that latest NVIDIA App v1.0 software utility may significantly impact gaming performance, with benchmarks from Tom's Hardware showing frame rate drops of up to 15% in certain games when the new NVIDIA App is installed alongside graphics drivers. The performance issues appear to be linked to the application's overlay features, particularly its game filters and photo mode capabilities, which seem to affect system resources regardless of whether users actively engage with them. Gamers primarily interested in the app's video capture and optimization features can restore regular performance levels by disabling these problematic overlay functions. In the meantime, NVIDIA issued the following statement on its GeForce forums in the "Game Filters and Performance in NVIDIA App" thread:
NVIDIA has phased out its veteran GeForce Experience software, marking it as legacy with the November 2024 driver release 566.14. Though users could initially opt out of switching to the replacement NVIDIA App, the company's latest 566.36 driver update eliminated this choice entirely. Now, PC gamers must either embrace the new NVIDIA App platform or proceed with a bare-bones driver installation without additional features. If you don't want to experience any significant performance loss, the game filter and photo mode in overlay should be disabled until NVIDIA prepares a fix that doesn't hurt game performance.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
NVIDIA Official StatementWe are aware of a reported performance issue related to Game Filters and are actively looking into it. You can turn off Game Filters from the NVIDIA App Settings > Features > Overlay > Game Filters and Photo Mode, and then relaunch your game.
38 Comments on NVIDIA App Allegedly Degrades Gaming Performance by Up to 15%, But There Is a Fix
This is sort of hilarious for a trillion dollar corporation which claims they're a software company, that didn't bother to test before launching the app, then again they don't have to when fans will defend them and most reviewers won't even consider it a problem.
It's also amusing that apparently the company value directly correlates to the expectation (from non-users of course) that they never have any software bug or issue whatsoever, no matter how minor and overblown it might be - a storm in a teacup if you will.
In the past, there were few incidents where people reported GPU app messing with in-game graphics settings. Since then, driver only.
It's because these apps are often bugged and may create unpredictable OS and/or hardware behavior.
Also, these apps also consume significant amount hardware resources for what they do, especially RAM.
Now every plaftorm client and GPU app will have their overlays. Only matter of time before they start colliding and making games to crash.
Already experienced this on few Ubisoft games purchased through Steam. Game crashes fixed after disabling Steam and Uplay overlay.
Nvcleaninstall + DDU and running nice !