Introducing the NVIDIA App: A Unified Experience for Gamers and Creators
2/25/2024
Introducing the NVIDIA App: A Unified Experience for Gamers and Creators
If you are a PC gamer or a content creator, you probably know how important it is to keep your NVIDIA drivers updated and optimized for your favorite games and applications. You may also be familiar with the NVIDIA Control Panel, GeForce Experience, and RTX Experience apps, which offer various features and settings to enhance your PC performance and experience. But what if you could access all these features and more from a single, unified app?
That’s exactly what the new NVIDIA app offers. The NVIDIA app is a beta version of a new desktop application that aims to replace the existing NVIDIA Control Panel, GeForce Experience, and RTX Experience apps with a modern, streamlined, and user-friendly interface. The NVIDIA app is designed to be the essential companion for NVIDIA GPU owners, whether you are a gamer or a creator.
What are the benefits of the NVIDIA app?
The NVIDIA app offers several benefits over the existing NVIDIA software suite, such as:
- Fast and responsive client: The NVIDIA app installs in half the time, delivers a 50% more responsive UI, and occupies 17% less disk space than GeForce Experience.
- Unified GPU control center: The NVIDIA app integrates GeForce Experience’s Optimal Game Settings and NVIDIA Control Panel’s 3D Settings into a unified interface. You can easily optimize in-game and GPU settings in one location, and tap into the power of the NVIDIA cloud data center to deliver personalized graphics settings based on your system’s GPU, CPU, and display.
- Redesigned in-game overlay: The NVIDIA app improves the user interface to quickly access features while playing your favorite game or application. You can also capture your greatest moments with powerful recording tools, display real-time performance statistics, and customize your game’s appearance with NVIDIA Freestyle.
- Improved driver information: The NVIDIA app provides a quicker way to understand what’s included in the latest driver updates with easy-to-scan bullet points of “what’s new” and “what’s fixed”, alongside quick callouts on game support.
- Freestyle RTX filters: NVIDIA Freestyle empowers you to personalize the visual aesthetics of your favorite games through real-time post-processing filters for over 1200 games. The NVIDIA app now offers AI-powered filters, like RTX HDR and RTX Dynamic Vibrance, which are accelerated by Tensor Cores on RTX GPUs. These filters enhance visual clarity, color balance, and HDR quality for games that do not support these features natively.
- Discover NVIDIA applications: The NVIDIA app allows you to access and install NVIDIA applications like GeForce NOW, NVIDIA Broadcast, NVIDIA Omniverse, and more. These applications leverage the power of NVIDIA GPUs and technologies to provide cloud gaming, AI-enhanced video and audio, and collaborative 3D creation platforms.
How can I download the NVIDIA app?
The NVIDIA app beta is available for download from the NVIDIA website. If you currently have GeForce Experience installed on your system, you do not have to uninstall it before installing the NVIDIA app beta. The NVIDIA app beta will coexist with the existing NVIDIA software suite, and you can switch between them at any time. However, you cannot run both the NVIDIA app and GeForce Experience at the same time, so you will need to close one before launching the other.
The NVIDIA app beta is compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11, and requires an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20, 30, or 40 series GPU, or an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 800, 900, 1000, or 1600 series GPU, or an NVIDIA GeForce MX100, MX200, MX300, 800M, or 900M GPU. You will also need the GeForce 551.52 driver or later to use the NVIDIA app beta.
What are the future plans for the NVIDIA app?
The NVIDIA app beta is a first step in NVIDIA’s journey to modernize and unify the NVIDIA Control Panel, GeForce Experience, and RTX Experience apps. NVIDIA plans to add more features and improvements to the NVIDIA app based on user feedback and testing. Eventually, the NVIDIA app will consume the existing NVIDIA software suite and become the default application for NVIDIA GPU owners.
If you want to try out the NVIDIA app beta and share your feedback with NVIDIA, you can download it from the NVIDIA website and join the NVIDIA app beta community on Discord. You can also check out the NVIDIA app beta FAQ for more information and troubleshooting tips.
The NVIDIA app is an exciting new development for PC gamers and creators, as it offers a simplified and unified experience for accessing the best features and settings for your NVIDIA GPU. Whether you want to optimize your games and applications, capture your best moments, enhance your visuals, or discover new NVIDIA tools and software, the NVIDIA app has you covered. Download the NVIDIA app beta today and see for yourself what it can do for you.