The Nvidia App has been out for simply over a month now – it’s Workforce Inexperienced’s alternative for GeForce Expertise – however the brand new software program is reportedly slowing down gaming efficiency for some of us.

A person named Sebastian Castellanos on X flagged up this challenge, noting that with the Nvidia App put in, their gaming PC was being slowed all the way down to the tune of 15%, and in addition struggling “horrendous” frametime points (primarily jittery gameplay).

Castellanos mentioned that this primarily occurred with video games utilizing Unreal Engine 5 (particularly Black Fantasy: Wukong and The Talos Precept 2). Different X customers additionally chimed in on the thread to notice slowdowns to the tune of 10% to fifteen% or thereabouts.

Initially, Castellanos noticed that the problems occurred with or with out the Nvidia App’s overlay operating in video games, and subsequently posted once more to say that they’d pinned down the issue to the ‘Recreation filters and Picture mode’ choice within the app’s settings.

Apparently, turning this off cured the noticed body price blues. Operating some benchmarks with the sport filters mode turned on, then off, Castellanos discovered that Black Fantasy: Wukong ran 22% sooner with the mode disabled.

Stuttering was additionally far more pronounced with the mode enabled, as you’ll be able to see within the graphs supplied (try the 1% percentile lows – the largest dips within the body price) within the under publish.

Evaluation: Hopefully this fudge will work for many avid gamers

As Tom’s {Hardware} experiences – which additionally discovered related ranges of slowdown on account of this bug – Nvidia has confirmed that it’s now investigating the purported glitch.

Workforce Inexperienced advises as follows: “We’re conscious of a reported efficiency challenge associated to Recreation Filters and are actively trying into it. You possibly can flip off Recreation Filters from the Nvidia App Settings > Options > Overlay > Recreation Filters and Picture Mode, after which relaunch your recreation.”

It’s actually price making an attempt that instructed repair, though Castellanos cautions that this won’t work for everybody affected. If it doesn’t treatment any sluggishness you may be experiencing with the Nvidia App, then about the one different choice is to easily uninstall it and go with out – till Workforce Inexperienced applies a repair. You possibly can run with simply the naked Nvidia graphics driver with no need the app, in case you have been questioning.

Hopefully Nvidia will be capable to swiftly implement a patch to resolve this one, because it’s a reasonably nasty bug by all accounts – one that ought to arguably have been caught within the prolonged beta for the Nvidia App.

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