Bear in mind that the driver package defaults to installing the nvidia app unless you select the “driver only” option.In the meantime, those who don’t want to worry about this kind of thing can still manually install the latest GPU drivers
Does this mean that future gamers won’t get the joy of playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution in yellow?The company says these “AI-powered” filters can provide “dynamic vibrance” to “better distinguish in-game elements”
I think the new version doesn’t require an account, while the old one did.I stopped using GeForce Experience several years ago and updated drivers manually. If they nerf that then I’ll have find another brand. I’m not making an account to log in with for damn drivers.
But Nvidias drivers are perfect, it couldn’t possibly be their fault. Snark aside this falls in to the meh but funny category. Not a world ending bug and I’m sure will be fixed soon enoughffs. And many will probably attribute the performance hit to a Windows update or something. Because who the hell is going to think “gee I wonder if my freaking graphics card software is ruining game performance?”
Game filters and Photo modeCustomize the appearance of your game and take amazing in-game photographs. This will take effect the next time you launch a game.
I’ve only ONCE installed the “experience” app from them, and found it was just another POS for which I had no relevant need. Having never bought in to the notion that something which works needs fixing, I only ever updated my drivers (manually) if I noticed a NEED to do so.I am dreading the day when they remove the old control panel from the driver package.Bear in mind that the driver package defaults to installing the nvidia app unless you select the “driver only” option.
That settings toggle… here’s NVIDIA’s description:I’ve never launched a game on this device. I have the gaming profile disabled. Despite that, this setting was enabled by default and I still saw the graphics hit in the various virtual machines I have running.Thanks for this timely article! I was just trying to figure out what was nerfing my GPU!
I’m pretty sure it is to blame for an issue I had with Phasmophobia. It set all sorts of things like “Cursor Opacity” and “Master Volume” to 0. The game itself is a bit buggy, so took me forever to realize that it was a whole bunch of settings that got changed.Yeah, it automatically decided “these are your ideal settings for your games”, removing all the custom settings I had made in each game.I had to go in and manually redo them all. (At least this time it didn’t hijack my sound settings.)Makes me glad I’m going with an AMD card on the next build, which is this weekend. (Yes, I’m sure I’ll have complaints about how AMD drivers do things as well.)
Photo modes and tools like Reshade for adding post-processing effects to games are pretty popular. It’s not my thing, but some people love adding gobs of AO and super-saturated colors to everything.Why would they give us “Game Filters” like this in the first place? Who asked for that? Who wants Nvidia just arbitrarily messing with the carefully tuned colors and settings of the game developer?This is a pretty bone-headed move from them. Not everything needs AI in it.
And in the very same video, in Hogwarts Legacy it was a 16% performance difference and disabling the filters didn’t completely restore performance. It doesn’t really matter if it’s only 4% in most games if there’s a possibility of much larger drops in others from a simple filter.Making a drama out of nothing. Hardware Unboxed tested this, and in most cases the performance hit is in a 3-4% range. And it’s likely just a small bug that will be fixed promptly.But ofc the discourse about this is already full of conspiracy theories or classic talking points how old software used to better, and everything new is bad. Relax.
That’s actually a very good question. I’m running an RTX 2080 — just one generation further and capable of some advanced functions, but not the latest AI-everything. So far I haven’t run into any issues and I do have the game filters turned on and use them (lightly) in a couple of games that benefit from them. So far (knocks on wood) I haven’t run into problems. Yet. Hopefully.¿What about us plebs that are rocking GTX10x0 cards with no AI?¿Are we affected?
As a computer gamer since Pong and Pacman (both on the Atari 2600), that has never happened.Between this app and the 24H2 Windows update there seems to be a some kind of bigger issue with performance tanking across the board. Remember when games shipped complete and worked first try?
I’m not sure where you fall in the appreciation/distaste spectrum with that comment, but that’s one of the few games that I think back to and crave for the aesthetic. It’s a superlative game, to be sure, and somehow that honey-drenched future just looks so good, it just works. It’s up there with Cuphead and BioShock (I really love Art Deco) in games I will play just to see and to be in.Does this mean that future gamers won’t get the joy of playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution in yellow?
So, for the price of one 5090 then?I’m going to sue them for a billion dollars
Photo modes and tools like Reshade for adding post-processing effects to games are pretty popular. It’s not my thing, but some people love adding gobs of AO and super-saturated colors to everything.
They should charge an extra 4 bucks for the AI at the sale. 6 bucks after purchase as an upgrade. It would show where the market is regarding AI and graphics.Why would they give us “Game Filters” like this in the first place? Who asked for that? Who wants Nvidia just arbitrarily messing with the carefully tuned colors and settings of the game developer?This is a pretty bone-headed move from them. Not everything needs AI in it.
The banner we’ll carry at the head of the Butlerian Jihad.Disabling AI fixes everything