Introduced back in February this year, the new NVIDIA App is set to replace both the GeForce Experience and NVIDIA Control Panel to consolidate both applications into one. Several months of beta releases later, the graphics giant today announces that it is now officially available, to be optionally bundled in future drivers.
NVIDIA App Now Official
The NVIDIA App is a much-needed upgrade for its geriatric predecessors – the NVIDIA Control Panel hasn’t updated its Windows XP-style interface which is two decades old by this point, while GeForce Experience is over a decade old by now, though it did receive some UI updates over the years. This meant navigating through the settings may not be as convenient as, say, AMD Software; but the new NVIDIA App should change that.
Besides the UI modernization, NVIDIA App is also introducing a GPU tuning section that should negate the use of MSI Afterburner, which has been the de facto tool for overclocking regardless of what GPU you use. Besides that, you also get several new RTX upscaling features housed within the app, like RTX HDR, RTX Dynamic Vibrance (based on the old Digital Vibrance feature found in NVIDIA Control Panel), and more.
While this is the first official version of the app, NVIDIA has noted that there are some remaining features in the NVIDIA Control Panel to be migrated in later updates, such as NVIDIA Surround and multiple display mode settings. The feature migration from GeForce Experience and all RTX features are now complete, the company stated, and will soon replace the GeForce Experience in driver installations (as usual, installation is optional). Note that you’ll need driver version 551.52 or newer, and GPUs starting from GTX 800 series in order to install the new app.
Pokdepinion: Last time I tried the beta it did noticeably drag down my framerates, so let’s see if this fixes that.
