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We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app
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It's replacing GeForce Experience. The nVidia Control Panel is still around.
So it can be ignored, like GeForce Experience?
Serious question from someone who only recently moved to PC gaming: Why can it be ignored? Isn't that where you get the latest drivers? Or are you downloading and installing them manually?
A driver allows games to interface with the graphics hardware, enabling accelerated performance for example. This “app” provides additional functionality on top of that (I don’t know what, but GeForce Experience it replaces provided things like recording gameplay videos etc.) which is not strictly required and, it seems, hurts gaming performance.
As for getting the latest drivers, you can do it manually by going to nVidia’s website and download them, or rely on Windows update to give you reasonably recent drivers.
Windows update: I see you just installed this driver from 3 weeks ago, let me just revert to a driver from 2021 for ya.