Control your settings with the Nvidia app
YOU’LL NEED THIS
© NVIDIA
NVIDIA GRAPHICS CARD
Some games
ACOLYTES OF TEAM GREEN have had an array of GPU-focused software to contend with since GeForce Experience arrived in 2013. It’s the app you’d open to update drivers or optimize the graphics settings of a particular game, but if you wanted to set up G-sync, change digital audio settings, or view the HDCP status of your display, you’d need to open the Nvidia Control Panel.
You’d also need to log in with an Nvidia account just to update your drivers, something that added an extra level of aggravation nobody wanted. Thanks to the new Nvidia app that’s now gone, though there’s now a rewards scheme that requires a login (this can be skipped).
The Nvidia app is more than a reskin of GeForce Experience, though the really granular settings are still hived off in the Control Panel. You get a redesigned interface that offers pergame and global settings for things like VSync and shader cache sizes, as well as driver updates and the ability to switch between Game Ready and Studio drivers.