Comment on We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app

caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here’s the quote, for people allergic to reading the update in the article.

  Update: Nvidia sent us a statement: “We are aware of a reported performance issue related to Game Filters and are actively looking into it. You can turn off Game Filters from the NVIDIA App Settings > Features > Overlay > Game Filters and Photo Mode, and then relaunch your game.”

  We have tested this and confirmed that disabling the Game Filters and Photo Mode does indeed work. The problem appears to stem from the filters causing a performance loss, even when they’re not being actively used. (With GeForce Experience, if you didn’t have any game filters enabled, it didn’t affect performance.) So, if you’re only after the video capture features or game optimizations offered by the Nvidia App, you can get ‘normal’ performance by disabling the filters and photo modes.

  So, TomsHW did indeed test this, and found that its the filters and photo mode causing the performance hit.

  Still a pretty stupid problem to have, considering the old filters did not cause this problem, but at least there’s a workaround.

  … I’m curious if this new settings app even exists, or has been tested on linux.

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• eramseth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah they didn’t test that. Nor did they test having the app installed but not running. Crummy article tbh.

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  • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Disagree, and i don’t think it’s the point.

    As an average user, why am I paying a performance hit for nvidia’s own “recommended parameters”

    That’s trash and a terrible experience, and they should be called out for it.

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    • eramseth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think you’re understanding. The testing they did was presumably fine and the performance hit is probably unacceptable. But mentioning but not testing the scenarios of

      • app installed but not running
      • app installed and running but overlay turned off

      Is kinda mailing it in.

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      • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ll give you that, yep, sure.

        But that doesn’t invalidate the data they did get, it’s just not a full picture.

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Modern Tom’s hardware

    actually trying

    Not possible.

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