Nvidia’s new app doesn’t require you to log in to update your GPU driver

Nvidia has introduced a public beta of a new app for Windows, one which does just a few helpful issues and one massive factor.

The new app combines the features of three apps you’d beforehand have to hunt via—the Nvidia Control Panel, GeForce Experience, and RTX Experience—into one app. Setting show preferences on video games and seeing precisely how every notch between “Performance” and “Quality” will have an effect on its settings is way simpler and extra seen contained in the new app. The old style management panel continues to be there if you right-click the Nvidia app’s notification panel icon. Installing the new beta upgrades and basically removes the Experience and Control Panel apps, however they’re nonetheless obtainable on-line.

But maybe most significantly, Nvidia’s new app permits you to update the driver for your graphics card, the one you paid for, with out having to log in to an Nvidia account. I examined it, it labored, and I do not know why I used to be stunned, however I’ve been conditioned that approach. Given that driver updates are one thing individuals typically do with new programs and the prior tendencies of Nvidia’s apps to log you out, this can be a boon that can pay small however notable cumulative dividends for a while to come.

Game efficiency instruments are a lot simpler to use, or not less than perceive, in the new Nvidia app. It is determined by the sport, however you get a slider to transfer between “Performance” and “Quality.” Some video games do not provide a couple of or two notches to use, like Monster Train or Against the Storm. Some, like Hitman 3 or Deep Rock Galactic, provide so many notches that you may make a time out of adjusting and testing. Whenever you transfer the slider, you can see precisely what modified in a form of diff show.

If you use Nvidia’s in-game overlay, triggered with Alt+Z, you can check that out, see its new feel and appear, arrange efficiency metrics, and alter its settings from Nvidia’s beta app. Driver updates now include extra details about what modified, reasonably than sending you to an internet site of launch notes. On playing cards with AI-powered choices, you’ll additionally get instruments for Nvidia Freestyle, RTX Dynamic Vibrance, RTX HDR, and different such nit-picky choices.

Not every part obtainable in the prior apps is making it into this new all-in-one app, nonetheless. Nvidia notes that GPU overclocking and driver rollback are on the best way. And the corporate says it has determined to “discontinue just a few options that have been underutilized,” together with the flexibility to broadcast to Twitch and YouTube, share video or stills to Facebook and YouTube, and make Photo 360 and Stereo captures. Noting that “good alternate options exist,” Nvidia says culling this stuff halves the new app’s set up time, improves responsiveness by 50 p.c, and takes up 17 p.c much less disk house.