If you want to optimize NVIDIA Control Panel for the best Gaming performance on your PC, open its 3D Settings and make these changes.

If you install the NVIDIA Control Panel, you can control most of your video card's settings and adjust them according to your preferences. You can change everything from resolution to 3D settings.

NVIDIA video cards feature a control panel that provides options users can change to streamline how graphics appear on the monitor.

When you go into the Nvidia app, or select the Manage 3D settings option in the Nvidia Control Panel, you're given a list of a few dozen settings that you can tie to specific applications.

The app also integrates the Control Panel’s 3D settings but not everything that the control panel offers, though that will change in the future.

Open the NVIDIA Control Panel and navigate to the following path: 3D Settings> Manage 3D Settings. For your processor on the right-side panel, set the Power Management to be Prefer Maximum ...

It still has a ways to go, but the gap between NVIDIA App and Control Panel closes a bit more as updates roll out for the ...

It will also be helpful to have all related graphics-card settings accessible in a single location once the Nvidia Control Panel features are merged into the app.

The glasses receive their "instructions" about when to flip from the IR emitter, which needs nothing more than a few settings that already exist in Nvidia's Control Panel software to work.

But perhaps most importantly, Nvidia's new app allows you to update the driver for your graphics card, the one you paid for, without having to log in to an Nvidia account.

The new Nvidia app has been under development in beta since March 2024 and is scheduled to exit the testing phase later this year. This transition aims to consolidate the functionalities of ...