discussion Nvidia Control panel depreciated

[sswilson]

Nvidia control panel has been taken out behind the barn (or sent to an unnamed farm upstate if that's your thing ).

Nvidia kills Windows XP-era Control Panel "after 20 years of dedicated service"

Nvidia says the Control Panel's features have been migrated to the Nvidia app.

arstechnica.com

Doing a standard express installation of the latest drivers will not automatically remove it, but doing a custom/clean install it will be removed from your PC.

 

[Shadowarez]

sounds like i wont be updating drivers anymore then lol.

 

[sswilson]

sounds like i wont be updating drivers anymore then lol.

Why? It's only new/clean installs which remove the old control panel.

Do you use the control panel for anything?

 

[Shadowarez]

Why? It's only new/clean installs which remove the old control panel.

Do you use the control panel for anything?

refresh rate changes, resolution changes, and fine grain control per game. dont like the nvidia app means we have to have all that telemetry stuff installed and container services.