While NVIDIA has officially made the transition from its old GeForce Experience app to the new eponymously-named app, and it looks like the new app has caused some issues on its own. Specifically, as Tom’s Hardware reported – the new app will cost up to 15% of gaming performance.
NVIDIA App’s Early Teething Issues
As an anecdotal note, I personally has experienced this exact bug when the NVIDIA App dragged my consistent 60FPS performance in Forza Horizon 5 down to an average of 40-plus FPS. During troubleshooting, I removed the app from my system (Ryzen 9 + RTX 3070 Laptop) and have seen no performance issues since then.
NVIDIA has since confirmed this issue and are working on a fix. Specifically, the bug relates to the Game Filters, and it has provided a simple workaround: simply disable the Game Filters feature by accessing NVIDIA App settings > Features > Overlay > Game Filters and Photo Mode (screenshot above), then restart the game if it is running.
Of course, if you don’t need all that bells and whistles provided by the new app, you can also go ahead and uninstall it from your PC – this won’t affect the existing functionality your GPU offers. That being said, there are some pretty useful features that can be found in the new app, so turning off the Game Filters setting (for now) is probably the best option.
Pokdepinion: Took me a good hour to figure out what happened when my performance dropped that time.
