The New Nvidia App Is Dramatically Reducing Gaming Performance

Nvidia recently updated a clutter of PC applications, including the GPU-controlled GeForce Experience, into a single Nvidia application. While this will reduce the number of icons in your system tray, it appears that the new program’s artificial intelligence capabilities may harm your game’s framerate.

Tom’s Hardcore investigated the problem itselfand found when testing new Nvidia apps that it could reduce gaming performance by 15%. However, this is the default setting, and there is a way to fix it – disable the AI-driven game filter settings.

The term “artificial intelligence” means a lot of different things now, even just in the gaming world, and it’s not helpful at all. It is used to describe the programmed behavior of characters and systems in a game. This is the name given to large language models that scrape the work of others to produce derivative, plagiarized works. It is used to define any “learning” program that adjusts itself based on experience. Related to this is the latter, which Nvidia describes as “game-enhancing filters, including innovative AI-driven filters for RTX users.” It’s this feature that seems to be causing some serious issues since switching from GeForce Experience.

Gaming filters are nothing new, they’re a feature in GeForce Experience, they’re called Nvidia Freestyle, and everyone thinks so This is a set worth playing around with Get the most out of certain games. It’s just that in new Nvidia apps, this setting is turned on by default, and any fancy new “AI-driven” elements it contains will have a significant impact on performance, even if it sits idle in the background. NVIDIA tells Tom’s Hardcore They are now aware of the issue and explain how to turn it off:

You can turn off Game Filters from NVIDIA Application Settings > Features > Overlays > Game Filters and Photo Mode and then restart the game.

Of course, there’s a more efficient way to avoid these problems: you can uninstall the app entirely. As someone who lazily relies on the GeForce Experience/Nvidia app to notify me when new Nvidia drivers are available (something you really need to get on top of if you want to avoid issues with your latest games), it has become the default for me Applications on your computer. This is a helpful reminder that you don’t actually need it-All you have to do is visit Nvidia’s driver page And download the latest drivers at any time. Just like we have done in the past.

(Nvidia, despite completely retiring the experience with the latest driver versions, still hasn’t updated many of its web pages to acknowledge this, the driver website still recommends you install it, and the explanation page for Game Filter all lists it as an experience feature .)

The 15% increase in frame rate drop is more significant than it sounds. as Tom’s Hardcore A helpful explanation is that the performance difference between the ultra-premium RTX 4060 Ti and the $100 cheaper RTX 4060 is 18%.

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