Nvidia is killing off its Control Panel app - and it wants you to help shape its replacement
It’s truly the end of an era
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Nvidiais calling for user feedback on its legacy features from the Nvidia Control Panel, with Team Green keen to know which features still matter to users and how they are used.
The company recently announced that it would beshutting down its Nvidia Control Panel and GeForce Experienceapp, replacing both with the new Nvidia App, which will apparently be a one-stop shop for all Nvidia settings. The app is currently inbeta, and promises to seamlessly integrate legacy tools with new features that support current and future games and hardware.
To better inform this transition, Nvidia shared asurveycalled “Nvidia App beta – Migration of Nvidia Control Panel and legacy 3D settings survey”. It aims to gauge which features should be brought over to the new app, and which should be left in the past.
The features on the chopping block
The 3D settings mentioned in the survey title are those found under the “Manage 3D settings” tab in the Nvidia Control Panel. These allow you to optimize for performance, energy efficiency, and visual fidelity on a game-by-game basis or globally.
Some highlights include:
These settings have always been essential for gamers who wanted to tailor their gaming experience - especially with games that lack in-game graphics options. Laptop users can set profiles to switch between their integrated graphics and discrete GPU, preserving battery life when they aren’t gaming.
A lot of these features, though, no longer offer any significant benefits to modern games and hardware, as we now have better ways of doing many of these things.
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Still, as users onReddit, ask, what about old games? Users have expressed their desire for features like AA and anisotropic filtering (AF) to remain for older games, as well as “GameStream” for streaming games from their PC to their Android or Nvidia Shield TV devices.
Whatever the outcome, it’s nice that Nvidia has made strides to include its users’ feedback to inform the migration process. When Nvidia launches the full version of its new app and shuts down Control Panel and GeForce experience at the end of the year, it will truly be the end of an era - and the company will need to make sure its new replacement app is embraced by gamers. As we all know, they aren’t the easiest bunch to keep happy…
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