A naukri.com initiative
Digitaltrends
1w
133
Image Credit: Digitaltrends
No, the Nvidia App isn’t killing your PC’s performance
- Sebastian Castellanos posted on X about a big performance drop with the Nvidia App installed in both Black Myth: Wukong and The Talos Principle 2.
- There has been a claim that the Nvidia App could reduce performance by up to 15%, but the Nvidia App isn't to blame.
- It just has nothing to do with the Nvidia App installed, but it’s the Nvidia overlay. The overlay is causing the performance drop.
- When stories like this break, there’s a mad dash to verify (or refute) claims that are circulating online, and the testing during that dash is generally limited, and sometimes, short-sighted.
- Even with the Nvidia App installed, performance can go right back up to where it was with the app uninstalled if you disable the Nvidia overlay.
- Having the Nvidia App installed will let you know when new drivers come out. And new drivers will improve your performance, particularly in new games.
- The advice coming out of this story has been to just uninstall the Nvidia App if you aren’t using the additional features available in it.
- Performance drop can vary depending on the app version, Windows version, driver version, and of course, your PC hardware itself.
- There’s general understanding that additional apps running on your PC will take some of your system resources.
- If you enable the Nvidia overlay the first time you install the Nvidia App, it stays enabled, even if you never pull it up.
Read Full Article
8 Likes
For uninterrupted reading, download the app