FYI - Nvidia app and legacy control panel

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Just FYI about new nvidia app and legacy control panel going forward.

Below from reddit and happened to me - Seems Nvidia app on new install used to give option to disable optimisations during process. Now you have to install, then go one by one per game to hit revert:

“Warning when using DDU to install, the ‘Automatically optimise newly added games and apps’ setting in the app seems to default to ON with no option to turn it off during the onboarding dialog any more. This meant I needed to go through and revert the “optimisations” in each game, bit of a pain.”

Remember to also turn off “automatic optimised newly added games” in Nvidia app.

Also about legacy control panel. New drivers going forward won’t include but:

“Existing installs of the NVIDIA Control Panel will remain on users’ systems, unless they perform a clean installation, and users who still need the NVIDIA Control Panel can continue to download it from the Microsoft Store, but we won’t be adding features, fixes, or other changes.”

and…

As the nvidia app optimises game automatically, even after reverting it messed with user_settings.config file already and reset my mod options settings. So recommend backup of user_settings.config to copy back in afterwards.

Thoughout clean driver install process I always disconnect from internet. This is to prevent in case it pulls Nvidia driver from microsoft which might be older.

Turns out you have to be connected to internet before installing Nvidia app after driver, so it will pop up option to prevent automatically optimise all games on first start.

Yeah that was a good lesson that would be far less painful if the App was not so insanely optimistic about what it means by “optimization”…