The Nvidia App Settings You Should Actually Be Using

[Scorpus]

The Nvidia App has evolved far beyond basic driver updates. From monitor tweaks, to DLSS overrides and recording tools, these are the settings PC gamers should actually be using.

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The Nvidia App Settings You Should Actually Be Using

 

[abactuon]

I won't use it anyway. I have Nvidia Control Center, Nvidia Frame View, and Nvidia Profile Inspector.
But I'll save this information just in case.
I didn't figure out how to overclock my monitor using Nvidia App.

 

[Neatfeatguy]

There is not one aspect of the app that I need to nor will want to use. They can keep their bloated app.

 

[zaku49]

Be careful in the "Output Color Settings" section if you have more than one monitor/mixed resolutions/max fps/cable types or mixed bpc 8 vs 10. It will lock the GPU's VRAM in a high-power state preventing the gpu fans from stopping when idle.

 

[human7]

"This generally works better than Windows Auto HDR for SDR-to-HDR conversion."
"That said, we generally don't recommend RTX HDR for SDR-to-HDR conversion in PC games"

Since RTX HDR has to be configured through a guide, and RenoDX is game specific, would you recommend Windows Auto HDR for hands-off SDR-to-HDR conversion?

 

[Gezzer]

But does the new app support Nvidia surround? And if not how do I make sure I can keep my 3 monitor 5840x1080 resolution?

 

[Alpine7995]

We went from a control panel that looked like it escaped Windows XP, to GeForce Experience requiring logins for everything, to the Nvidia App finally becoming pretty decent. Only took about three GPU generations and a small eternity.

 

[mosin]

The App keeps crashing trying to download updates, I eventually just went to the site and downloaded drivers manually.

 

[ModernOddity]

This guide was not particularly useful in my case, as I refuse to use the Nvidia App.
I mean, between bad drivers to telemetry and other red flags- I have resorted to staying on driver 566.36 and continued using Nvidia Control Panel (which the GUI of doesn't bother me).
You all can do with your privacy as you like, I'm not touching that app.

The guide also feels pretty clustered, some space between sections or a small table of contents up top to jump to subsections like on a wiki article would be deeply appreciated for future reference.

My only other point of contention is using G-Sync. I have had experiences in multiple games where G-Sync would create a ghosting effect where anti-aliasing was applying on edges of textures, this could be due to my TV (Hisense 55U7G) supporting Freesync rather than G-Sync.
You recommend it regardless, whereas I would say tread carefully as game-breaking graphic bugs can occur, especially in older games. In my experience, in the NCP it will disable the option if you turn off the setting in your monitor, however that will impact performance- so I do the opposite & only disable it in NCP.

Otherwise, I thought the contents of the article were great, even if there were some settings recommended that I personally would never use, like DLSS. I appreciated that you began in Windows settings as a massive amount of people overlook Refresh Rate, Color-Bit Depth & Range.

If you use NCP like me, I recommend when you configure your 3D settings to:

1) At least turn off Gamma Correction and set Preferred Refresh Rate to 'Highest Available'.

2) Don't ever worry about MFAA, only a small list of games implemented it so it does nothing for most games. Look up the list if you want to verify whether any of your games use it.

Past that, I could recommend two sets of configured settings in NCP, pending whether you prefer max performance or max quality- but I'll leave that to Techspot.