NVIDIA App v1.0

[W1zzard]

The NVIDIA App has moved out of beta, bringing a streamlined control panel experience for GeForce users. In our review, we look closely at the new features, explore the app's functionality, and point out areas where there’s room for improvement.

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[dtoxic]

They way things are going,soon Windows will require you install Nvidia Crap so that windows can be installed on top of that..."slim" drivers and two small programs is all i need for Nvidia management

 

[csendesmark]

So Nvidia goes fancy!

 

[Onasi]

Garbage. The legacy panel is what any driver panel should be, especially the UWP version - it’s out of the way, takes no resources, has a clean and concise UI and all the features one needs. Replacing it with a Chromium app is silly. What, just to make it look pretty? Please. I did test drive the App in beta and still have the opinion from when it was announced - it’s unnecessary. If it replaced GFE only - fine. But forcing it on people who never used any GFE features and just need a basic CP to control their GPU is ridiculous.

 

[csendesmark]

What, just to make it look pretty?

I guess all of this started with some Nvidia high-up saw AMD's control panel.
So of course they have to have a prettier one!
Which I agree, AMD's control panel is better in looks, and about the same in usability wise

 

[Dragokar]

Well I can't wait for the AI OC feature (as an example), of course you will need an account for that with an active subscription.....just kidding or am I not?

 

[Chomiq]

Still missing what I consider "basic" features that were available in GFE app. Can't share shadowplay videos, can't trim shadowplay videos, can't stream, etc. Even something as basic as volume control for microphone would reset to 68 each time I set it to 100 well they actually fixed this.

 

[R0H1T]

So after 15~20 years they come up with this cr@p

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

Garbage. The legacy panel is what any driver panel should be, especially the UWP version - it’s out of the way, takes no resources, has a clean and concise UI and all the features one needs. Replacing it with a Chromium app is silly. What, just to make it look pretty? Please. I did teat drive the App in beta and still have the opinion from when it was announced - it’s unnecessary. If it replaced GFE only - fine. But forcing it on people who never used any GFE features and just need a basic CP to control their GPU is ridiculous.

Personally, I dropped them when they forced me to have an account just to do drivers autoupdate.

Not to leave behind, when they decided to add telemetry drivers with the package, without your consent or even explaining what they were collecting.

 

[EatingDirt]

Garbage. The legacy panel is what any driver panel should be, especially the UWP version - it’s out of the way, takes no resources, has a clean and concise UI and all the features one needs. Replacing it with a Chromium app is silly. What, just to make it look pretty? Please. I did teat drive the App in beta and still have the opinion from when it was announced - it’s unnecessary. If it replaced GFE only - fine. But forcing it on people who never used any GFE features and just need a basic CP to control their GPU is ridiculous.

Interesting to see grumpy old men be mad at a much needed update to the interface. Nvidia Control Panel's interface is basically straight out of Windows 95, and it runs just about as well as software from 95 as well. I too am often a grumpy old man, but as someone that's experienced AMD's Adrenaline software, a nice modern interface that contains all driver functions, this new app sure looks a lot better than Nvidia CP, once it has all the functions of CP.

 

[GerKNG]

i refuse to use this ad infested bloatware. Why did they not just clean up the control panel a bit and move on?

 

[titan.boreal]

Lets see how well NVCleanInstall integrate with it.
I really like the new app but still want to remove extras like shadowplay from it without breaking it.

 

[bitsandboots]

Didn't see in the review - does this thing have overscan/underscan customization on the display?
Because the old nvidia control panel does, and AMD used to... and then decided to silently remove or something.
Was trying to get AMD to do the simple thing of actually look nice when hooking into a hotel TV and despite people saying their shiny UI is superior to nvidia's old control panel.... it couldn't do the essential thing I needed.
So, fingers crossed the new nvidia "app" doesn't favor shiny over having existing features.

 

[Battler624]

I like the app a lot, much faster than nvcp but unfortunately still missing features.
gimme background applications fps limit and then i'll ditch the old nvcp

i refuse to use this ad infested bloatware. Why did they not just clean up the control panel a bit and move on?

cuz the old one is slow af

Didn't see in the review - does this thing have overscan/underscan customization on the display?
Because the old nvidia control panel does, and AMD used to... and then decided to silently remove or something.
Was trying to get AMD to do the simple thing of actually look nice when hooking into a hotel TV and despite people saying their shiny UI is superior to nvidia's old control panel.... it couldn't do the essential thing I needed.
So, fingers crossed the new nvidia "app" doesn't favor shiny over having existing features.

doesn't have it at the moment.

 

[Daven]

Personally, I dropped them when they forced me to have an account just to do drivers autoupdate.

Not to leave behind, when they decided to add telemetry drivers with the package, without your consent or even explaining what they were collecting.

Forcing account creation in order to use a $2000 GPU is borderline criminal. I’m happy that’s gone.

 

[bitsandboots]

Nvidia Control Panel's interface is basically straight out of Windows 95, and it runs just about as well as software from 95 as well. I too am often a grumpy old man, but as someone that's experienced AMD's Adrenaline software, a nice modern interface that contains all driver functions, this new app sure looks a lot better than Nvidia CP, once it has all the functions of CP.

I don't get this point of view, especially since it wrongly assumes the modern interface contains all necessary functions.
The control panels are tools. I don't look at them for entertainment. I don't really care if an old hammer looks old if it still does what it needs to do. If I had an iHammer which looked nicer but had something wrong with it like it required a subscription to use I'd favor the ancient hammer over the shiny one

 

[GerKNG]

cuz the old one is slow af

i spend how long in the control panel?
10 bit full RGB, 360Hz, G-Sync On, Shader Cache unlimited, close and exit for ever.
it works, it's small and includes nothing except of exactly what you need to setup your GPU/Monitors.

 

[bug]

Nothing objectionable, as far as I can see (except CEF itself). But what was wrong with the current control panel?

 

[GoldenX]

It's slow, the UI doesn't scale well with high DPI displays (or anything past HD resolution, period), and it looks outdated.

 

[mrpaco]

Garbage. The legacy panel is what any driver panel should be, especially the UWP version - it’s out of the way, takes no resources, has a clean and concise UI and all the features one needs. Replacing it with a Chromium app is silly. What, just to make it look pretty? Please. I did teat drive the App in beta and still have the opinion from when it was announced - it’s unnecessary. If it replaced GFE only - fine. But forcing it on people who never used any GFE features and just need a basic CP to control their GPU is ridiculous.

If I understood it correctly, this is not a control panel substitute, this is mostly a geforce experience substitute. If you don't want to record games, etc, just use clean drivers and you will still have the old control pannel. The new one is for the features that are not on the control pannel and are used mostly for save content, apply filters live on the game, stream, etc.

 

[regs]

It's slow, the UI doesn't scale well with high DPI displays (or anything past HD resolution, period), and it looks outdated.

It's fully scaled for me at 150%. But i see no improvements in 2 years. 3D settings still missing background fps limiter and all texture filtering and antialiasing options that are in Control Panel.

 

[titan.boreal]

If I understood it correctly, this is not a control panel substitute, this is mostly a geforce now substitute. If you don't want to record games, etc, just use clean drivers and you will still have the old control pannel. The new one is for the features that are not on the control pannel and are used mostly for save content, apply filters live on the game, stream, etc.

It is a work in progress replace. Read the review

"eventually it will replace the legacy Control Panel and GeForce Experience"

 

[Chomiq]

Going through the comments over here it's funny how no one misses the Radeon control panel from ATI days and uses modern AMD app instead without issues, but somehow NVCP is something no one should even try to replace in 2024.

 

[Event Horizon]

Opening a mini browser to modify driver settings is objectionable but I don't have an issue with their attempt to merge NVCP and GFE. I will continue to use NVIDIA Inspector for deep game profile tweaks.

 

[Onasi]

@mrpaco
Literally from the article:
“When asked about the legacy control panel, NVIDIA responsed that "Control Panel will continue to be a separate app as we continue to port features" but also that the App will "eventually" replace it.”