NVIDIA has decided to combine all its existing programs intended for gamers and developers in a new application that will act as a multifunctional software hub. In general, the company decided to abandon GeForce Experience, since the new application will offer the same functionality, but in an updated interface. The app is currently in beta testing, but it’s free to download and test if you’re interested. Perhaps the nicest innovation is that, unlike GeForce Experience, you don’t need an account to launch a new app, which was an annoying shortcoming of the previous software.
It’s unlikely that the new application will be revolutionary, but it does provide a fairly convenient combination of most of the functions that gamers who use NVIDIA graphics cards rely on. For example, it lets you use NVIDIA’s recommended settings for installed games, as was the case with GeForce Experience, and adds two new (at least for now) AI-driven features: RTX Dynamic Vibrance and RTX HDR. The app also offers a more detailed, customizable overlay that provides information about your system’s performance on screen. You can customize the location of the overlay and change its attributes, so some users may abandon MSI Afterburner in favour of this.
The main screen of the application is quite simple: it shows installed applications and games, as well as a “Discover” section where you can find out what else NVIDIA has to offer. In general, it resembles GeForce Experience in appearance but allows you to quickly select a game on the left side of the window, and then adjust its settings according to NVIDIA’s recommendations. You can also click on the Drivers tab to update your drivers or go to the ShadowPlay and Screen Overlay settings. There’s also a link to the NVIDIA Control Panel, which surprisingly still exists despite NVIDIA’s all-in-one app design, but its days are numbered as you can now fine-tune game and driver settings in the new app.
The NVIDIA application is quite convenient and, like GeForce Experience, you don’t have to mess with it every day. You can quickly adjust the ShadowPlay and overlay options to your liking, or adjust the game options and leave everything as is until you change your mind or want something different. Notably, there is no need to log in every time, which probably annoyed some users when using GeForce Experience.
The new AI-based features also seem useful, but they’re still raw at this point, so it’s too early to judge their performance. Of the two new features, RTX HDR is quite useful as it adds HDR to SDR games if the user has an HDR-compatible display. We previously speculated that NVIDIA was working on this technology and now it has been officially confirmed and looks to be one of the most important features in the new app.
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