NVIDIA App Allegedly Degrades Gaming Performance by Up to 15%, But There Is a Fix

[AleksandarK]

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:

We 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.

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.

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[Neo_Morpheus]

Allegedly...no.

Proven.. that's different.

By Tom's and before they did, several others in X raised the subject

But since it's Ngreedia, free passes and stuff are in order.

Now back to how bad AMD drivers still are

 

[AleksandarK]

Allegedly...no.

Proven.. that's different.

By Tom's and before they did, several others in X raised the subject

But since it's Ngreedia, free passes and stuff are in order.

Now back to how bad AMD drivers still are

We didn't conduct in-house performance testing to make our own claim, hence allegedly. And no, no free passes for anyone. If it was a free pass, why the news post?

 

[ThomasK]

Allegedly...no.

Proven.. that's different.

By Tom's and before they did, several others in X raised the subject

But since it's Ngreedia, free passes and stuff are in order.

Now back to how bad AMD drivers still are

When it comes to nvidia, it's either radio silence or the fan boys rushing to defend the trillion dollar company on the comments.

 

[nguyen]

Now I wonder if W1zzard has Nvidia App running when testing games, maybe RTX 4000 are actually faster than what is being showed in the new test system

 

[TheLostSwede]

When it comes to nvidia, it's either radio silence or the fan boys rushing to defend the trillion dollar company on the comments.

Think of the share price...

 

[Chaitanya]

When it comes to nvidia, it's either radio silence or the fan boys rushing to defend the trillion dollar company on the comments.

companies releasing software that drops performance is nothing new. Just look at MS Win11 which for 2 years has been crippling performance for AMD systems and now the update which "fixed" AMD performance has managed to drop performance on Intel side of things.

Edit: I am curious to find out if the update is affecting compute performance as well or its just gaming performance. Unfortunately Techgage seems to be dead and they were the best source for workstation oriented testing.

 

[Vya Domus]

Ah yes the gazillion dollar mega corporation with >90% market share couldn't QA this properly but AMD drivers bad if you ask the average consumer.

 

[Arctucas]

So, the 'fix' is to not install the app? Got it.

 

[AcE]

Guess I dodged a bullet there, I’m always so glad to not be a beta tester / early adopter.

 

[Hyderz]

I used to have the previous one and then update came and replaced it… I guess it’s time to uninstall

 

[OSdevr]

When it comes to nvidia, it's either radio silence or the fan boys rushing to defend the trillion dollar company on the comments.

Are we on the same forum? I'm pretty sure we all hate Nvidia and justifiably so.

 

[windwhirl]

marking it as legacy with the January 2024 driver release 566.14

Isn't that from November tho?

Now I wonder if W1zzard has Nvidia App running when testing games, maybe RTX 4000 are actually faster than what is being showed in the new test system

W1zz tested last with 566.14
I doubt he uses filters and such during his benchmarks, if anything it's more likely he disables it all to remove the number of variables that can affect benchmarks in unwanted ways.

@W1zzard ?

 

[john_]

5000 series was going to be up to 15% faster than 4000. But nooooooooo...... NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOO. Tom's had to reveal the secret! So now 5000 series now will NOT be up to 15% faster than 4000 series.
Thanks for the performance stagnation Tom's Hardware.

 

[RogueSix]

The most simple fix: Simply do not install the app. I have never seen a need for GFE or for this new app so as long as it isn't enforced, I will never install it. It's useless bloat.

 

[ThomasK]

Think of the share price...

I don't.

 

[Zazigalka]

Can confirm this. 2-3 FPS difference in cp2077 (84-86 went up to 86-89), tested outside Lizzies bar.

 

[AleksandarK]

Isn't that from November tho?

Yes! The brain is focused on CES in January Thanks for this, fixed!

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

Hardware Unboxed did some testing and confirm there is a performance hit when you enable both Overlay & Game Filters, but performance is more or less the same with Overlay on or off.

 

[W1zzard]

W1zz tested last with 566.14
I doubt he uses filters and such during his benchmarks, if anything it's more likely he disables it all to remove the number of variables that can affect benchmarks in unwanted ways.

Yeah no NV App in the version that I used. I turn off overlays/filter/Ansel/everything
also @nguyen

 

[Vayra86]

Nvidia the software company. Going well I see, although it is comforting to see that alongside the state of the average game release, the game support bloat apps follow suit. Maybe they should add some RT as well.

 

[Daven]

Nvidia the software company. Going well I see, although it is comforting to see that alongside the state of the average game release, the game support bloat apps follow suit. Maybe they should add some RT as well.

Nvidia should convince MS to RT Windows.
/sarcasm

 

[AcE]

ironically i'm one of 5 people on the planet who likes GFE, so.... I'm gonna use this as late as possible.

 

[wolf]

We didn't conduct in-house performance testing to make our own claim, hence allegedly. And no, no free passes for anyone. If it was a free pass, why the news post?

Because the persecution complex is strong with people who can't separate their favourite brand from their identity, unfortunately.

 

[mouacyk]

Use NVCleanstall and avoid the bloatware, performance solved.