Nvidia is finally ditching its iconic GPU Control Panel after 20 years — new driver updates only ship in the Nvidia App

The one thing I liked about nVidia: their simple driver, yet powerful, solution.

They just needed to improve the overall performance of the old CP and not re-skin it into the new one. That being said, if it works better and offers more functionality, the users win. Knowing nVidia, that won't be the case, LOL. I hope I'm wrong though.

Regards.

hotaru251 said:

i still won't use new one.
It still lacks some of the option the control panel has.

If you read the artical you'll notice
"Nvidia will keep supporting the control panel until all “professional features” have been migrated to the Nvidia App."

Nolandc said:

If you read the artical you'll notice
"Nvidia will keep supporting the control panel until all “professional features” have been migrated to the Nvidia App."

all "professional" means not ALL features.

DS426 said:

Quickly? Sure, fewer clicks, but it never loaded the initial GUI homescreen quickly nor when navigating to other pages. Not back when I had my GTX 1080 anyways, and I doubt it was made much faster since then. Faster after being loaded for a few minutes and after visiting and then revisiting the same pages, yeah, probably.

I'm surprised it's finally sunsetting just now, but I guess I can also see that not everyone has switched. That's at least decent of nVidia to keep it going still for those holdouts.

This!

When I had the 5060ti for a week and dove into "that" old thing, it was not fast at all! And this is on actual workstation hardware...

Of course some folk just refuse to accept that the 90s are behind us, and will champion everything thats "simple" even if it wasn't all that.

When even the newcomer can come out the gate with something properly modern that actually does it all, Nvidia has no excuse. Then again, when you have to dive into bios setting just the get the driver to install without hard-locking your system, I suppose things aren't as sunny in that camp

I don't trust any of these apps. They all seem to cause some weird glitch or issue. I won't be using the new one ever.

I am at a total loss as to why you seem to celebrate the end of a control panel...

...because a control panel is really all I ever want from a GPU vendor!

I need it rarely, but I need it on all of my machines under every OS to set up the fundamentals like resolution, refresh, color depth, multi-monitor settings etc.

And then, ideally, I just leave things alone for years... or until I change something fundamental like the basic monitor setup for the desk I am operating from ...without having to relearn a foreign vendor, generation, and OS specific design langauge.

What these "apps" deliver is a Disney-Land, each one does its own using a "style guide" that's an accidental result of some corporate decision making process, to be revised over and over again, to make it more "engaging"... did I mention that I justed wanted to be done with it as quickly as possible? No matter which GPU vendor? I don't want to make that GPU app my new home and spend time enjoying it! Yet that lock-in-maxxing is the design goal universally applied...

So the first thing they do is "measure" aka spying on you, these days with the help of some hefty AI model, which whatches both you and what you do every step of the way.

Second thing it does is phoning all those insights home, all of them, and typically to be sold on to whoever gives a dime.

Third thing is it comes back with "suggestions" aka ads, which are a bane on sanity, a pest I feel obliged to exterminate rather than help along, including all transmission agents.

Fourth and new is that most likely it will "just do things for your", take control and mess things up in ways you can no longer control or fix, while opening its doors to all sorts of new vulnerabilities via the AI wounderweapon.

AMD's Radeon software is one of the main reasons I've sent back every discrete AMD GPU I've bought and tested since the last R9 290X, it just gets me scream with frustration every time I try: it's just such a total mess, I no longer care about the hardware being perhaps a better value.

And while Nvidia's app is already better by not forcing a dark mode on me without resort, a working control panel is just better and all I want. And why doesn't everyone who doesn't respect my light-mode preset in the OS get an electric shock for ignoring my preference? Who would dare to hand you chocolate ice cream when you order strawberry?

And that includes you, Microsoft, who in your infinite wisdom chose to move quite a lot of the display related settings to some "native" Win11 control, whilst others remain scattered among other panels, what have seen little change since Windows 95.

KDE has some sanity by comparison, but of course it lacks some controls, which are device specific, always an issue when features explode faster than abstractions and style guides can accomodate.

Perhaps there is a place for game tuning and cheats, overriding all the "intelligence" and automation that game and game-engine vendors already try to put into their software.

But let it be completely separate from a control panel, which is about configuring for work, not for some type of masochist "pre-game warm up" where the struggle is to get those software warriors cooperate enought so you can just enjoy the game.