GeForce App

[Pocahawtness]

I see that the GeForce App has been officially released.
This marks the end of Experience and Control Panel.
I guess it's time to move over to it...

[Neo]

I upgraded to the nvidia app and over half of my games couldn't be optimised. Just gave the error about being unable to retrieve data. It also screwed up all my game settings.

Had to uninstall and put geforce experience back on, which has always worked perfectly for me.

[Neo]

And further, the splash screen which tempted me to upgrade reaassured me that all my game settings will be remembered and transferred. Nope, turned all my games into a dogs dinner.

Took me over an hour to fix the mess.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

I am not a first-adopter anymore (I learned my lesson adopting Ryzen Gen1) so I will stick with NGFE and NCP for now, thank you.

[Pocahawtness]

The thing I don't like about it is the number of adverts.

Every page has the large banner at the top - News. Then lower down, on the main page, there is GeForce Discover. A modern way to say "GeForce Adverts".

Also, although you can opt out of data collection, you need an account to opt out! LOL!

Anyway, they have already stopped supporting Experience and it's only a matter of time before they remove them altogether.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Wipe the app and everything NVIDIA, GFE, etc.
Reboot and clean install latest NVIDIA Driver with no GFE.
Then install the latest version of the NVIDIA App.
Don't let it optimize any games. Why would you?
Just run the games.
Configure the game settings all yourself.

Whenever you install NVIDIA drivers or apps; after it is all done. Go to Windows Services and disable all NVIDIA services; except for the one called Display Container.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Wipe the app and everything NVIDIA, GFE, etc.
Reboot and clean install latest NVIDIA Driver with no GFE.
Then install the latest version of the NVIDIA App.
Don't let it optimize any games. Why would you?
Just run the games.
Configure the game settings all yourself.

Yeah, no thanks, new drivers bugger my system - I am right now cooking at the tippity-top of reliability (score of 10) for the past 2 months after the whole September downfall.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by WinterSolstice:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Wipe the app and everything NVIDIA, GFE, etc.
Reboot and clean install latest NVIDIA Driver with no GFE.
Then install the latest version of the NVIDIA App.
Don't let it optimize any games. Why would you?
Just run the games.
Configure the game settings all yourself.

Yeah, no thanks, new drivers bugger my system. :csdsmile:

Well overall do the wipe; then reboot and install driver of choice; such as 555.99 for example
Doesn't have to be very latest one. Long as stable.
But DO NOT install GFE, period.
Then install NVIDIA app.
Many had issues when you attempt to install NVIDIA app because of GFE already being present.

Once all is installed, reboot the system before you do anything with the NVIDIA App or Control Panel.

[Pocahawtness]

It seems pretty solid, in that I have been messing with it today and it just keeps on working, despite me trying to fool it by powering up and down different monitors connected to the PC.

There is nothing exciting in there. The Overlay is handy, but not something I would leave enabled all the time.

[Snow]

Nvidia crApp is just as useless as GFE. Don't install that.

[Neo]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Wipe the app and everything NVIDIA, GFE, etc.
Reboot and clean install latest NVIDIA Driver with no GFE.
Then install the latest version of the NVIDIA App.
Don't let it optimize any games. Why would you?
Just run the games.
Configure the game settings all yourself.

Whenever you install NVIDIA drivers or apps; after it is all done. Go to Windows Services and disable all NVIDIA services; except for the one called Display Container.

I find the optimisation feature quite handy for some games. It's the only way I know how to force Skyrim SE and heroes of the storm to use a resolution much higher than my monitor allows. I think it's the nvidia DSR feature. (Dynamic Super Resolution)

Skyrim looks terrible in 1080.

[Snow]

Originally posted by Neo:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Wipe the app and everything NVIDIA, GFE, etc.
Reboot and clean install latest NVIDIA Driver with no GFE.
Then install the latest version of the NVIDIA App.
Don't let it optimize any games. Why would you?
Just run the games.
Configure the game settings all yourself.

Whenever you install NVIDIA drivers or apps; after it is all done. Go to Windows Services and disable all NVIDIA services; except for the one called Display Container.

I find the optimisation feature quite handy for some games. It's the only way I know how to force Skyrim SE and heroes of the storm to use a resolution much higher than my monitor allows. I think it's the nvidia DSR feature. (Dynamic Super Resolution)

Skyrim looks terrible in 1080.

Enable DSR, set the desktop to DSR resolution, set the game to borderless fullscreen.

[Neo]

Originally posted by Snow:

Originally posted by Neo:

I find the optimisation feature quite handy for some games. It's the only way I know how to force Skyrim SE and heroes of the storm to use a resolution much higher than my monitor allows. I think it's the nvidia DSR feature. (Dynamic Super Resolution)

Skyrim looks terrible in 1080.

Enable DSR, set the desktop to DSR resolution, set the game to borderless fullscreen.

Not sure I can do that in windows, my monitor can't go higher than 1920x1080. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean.

Geforce experience ups the resolution in game massively then shrinks it down to fit my screen. Resulting in a much sharper image.

[Snow]

Originally posted by Neo:

Originally posted by Snow:

Enable DSR, set the desktop to DSR resolution, set the game to borderless fullscreen.

Not sure I can do that in windows, my monitor can't go higher than 1920x1080. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean.

Geforce experience ups the resolution in game massively then shrinks it down to fit my screen. Resulting in a much sharper image.

We're talking DSR here, no? If you enable DSR/DLDSR resolutions in NVCP - they become available in your games and desktop. Experience doesn't do anything really.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by Neo:

Originally posted by Snow:

Enable DSR, set the desktop to DSR resolution, set the game to borderless fullscreen.

Not sure I can do that in windows, my monitor can't go higher than 1920x1080. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean.

Geforce experience ups the resolution in game massively then shrinks it down to fit my screen. Resulting in a much sharper image.

What you're describing is DSR, Dynamic Super Resolution. That makes the game render at a higher resolution, set in Nvidia Control Panel, and then down scales to the monitors actual resolution.

In you case that would mean rendering at say 4k and then downscaling to your monitors resolution of 1080p

[Neo]

Originally posted by Snow:

Originally posted by Neo:

Not sure I can do that in windows, my monitor can't go higher than 1920x1080. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean.

Geforce experience ups the resolution in game massively then shrinks it down to fit my screen. Resulting in a much sharper image.

We're talking DSR here, no? If you enable DSR/DLDSR resolutions in NVCP - they become available in your games and desktop. Experience doesn't do anything really.

Okay I was unaware you could enable it in the control panal, used to just letting Geforce experience do it for me. Thanks for the tip. Although the app is still useful if you want to run only select games in higher resolutions, i guess.