Nvidia has shared a brief repair for a identified subject impacting programs operating its just lately unveiled NVIDIA App and inflicting gaming efficiency to drop by as much as 15%.
The corporate confirmed that these efficiency points are triggered when the Sport Filters choice is enabled within the software and it recommends disabling it and restarting the sport as a workaround.
“We’re conscious of a reported efficiency subject associated to Sport Filters and are actively trying into it,” Nvidia employees mentioned in a help discussion board thread revealed earlier right this moment.
“You possibly can flip off Sport Filters from the NVIDIA App Settings > Options > Overlay > Sport Filters and Photograph Mode, after which relaunch your sport.”
This comes following widespread consumer experiences concerning the app crippling PC gaming efficiency after enabling Sport Filters or Photograph Mode, with affected prospects saying they have been pressured to uninstall the buggy app because it was nonetheless inflicting points even after disabling the overlays and different filters.
“I uninstalled nVidia app for now as a result of it is inflicting quite a lot of issues although i disabled overlay and different filter stuff. We’ll see the way it goes,” one affected consumer mentioned.
“I did that yesterday, and there are not any extra random crashes in video games. I could not even begin delta power. After I uninstalled, it labored first attempt,” one other replied.
These claims have been additionally examined by Tom’s {Hardware}, which confirmed that the drop in framerates can attain as much as 15%. This can be a large efficiency hit, contemplating that is often the distinction between normal GPU fashions and their Ti variations (which include extra reminiscence and CUDA cores).
The NVIDIA App companion software for Home windows 10 and Home windows 11 laptops and PCs with NVIDIA GPUs was formally launched in mid-November following a number of betas.
The app is designed to maintain GeForce Sport Prepared and NVIDIA Studio drivers updated and supply avid gamers with optimum settings for over 1000 video games.
“The NVIDIA app incorporates most of the high options from GeForce Expertise and RTX Expertise, contains an elective login to redeem bundles and rewards, and introduces new RTX capabilities to raise your gaming and artistic experiences,” the corporate says.