The Nvidia App is damaging frame rates in some games, on some PCs, with Nvidia staffers recommending you nix the Game Filters overlay as a potential solution to the problem
Recent reports have surfaced suggesting the new Nvidia App, fresh out of beta, is harming the gaming performance of some PCs. We've conducted some of our own testing, with up to a 12% frame rate hit on one PC, and no performance issues on another. But if you do find yourself with an issue, there at least looks to be a temporary fix that doesn't mean you have to uninstall the application altogether.
When the Nvidia app launched last month, it followed on from a successful beta period where the app was praised for not requiring a sign-in function, and for replacing Nvidia's other apps like GeForce Experience and, eventually, the Nvidia Control Panel.
Yesterday, following claims on X, that games were running slower with the Nvidia App installed, I have tested the main offender itself—Black Myth Wukong—to see what the performance hit looks like on my own system. After a bit of a false start and a tweaking of my methodology, I've certainly been able to note instances where there are definite slow downs because of having the Nvidia App running on my rig.
As pointed out by one Nvidia staff member (via VideoCardz) in the GeForce forums, the lead theory is that this issue is related to the 'Game Filters and Photo Mode' and turning that overlay off specifically will help performance.
With my Ryzen 7 7800X3D and RTX 4070 Super powered machine, all on very high settings with Frame Generation turned off, I initially gotan everage 59 fps with a minimum of 49 and a maximum of 67 in Black Myth: Wukong. Using that touted fix of turning off overlays, that number got up to an average 63 fps, with a minimum of 47 and a maximum of 72. Through multiple runs, on very high, I got an average of 4 fps more in the average fps section, and 5 fps more average in the minimum fps section.
The same can be spotted in my 1080p testing with Frame Generation on, which got an average of 89 fps with the overlay on and 96 fps with the overlay off. The biggest disparity, however, was when I knocked the
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