When the Nvidia App launched last month, it looked like a universal improvement over GeForce Experience. (Finally, no more login required for driver updates and game optimizations!) Unfortunately, it now appears that this new software has its own problems,

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Nvidia is aware of the Nvidia App issues and is working on fixes, but for now it recommends a simple workaround.

Nvidia's shift from GeForce Experience to the Nvidia App came with some unexpected frame rate drops. Here's how to fix them.

Nvidia has shared a temporary fix for a known issue impacting systems running its recently unveiled NVIDIA App and causing gaming performance to drop by up to 15%.

Now, it would obviously be bad news if the Nvidia App was causing a performance hit on gaming PCs because Nvidia is transitioning its software stack

The Nvidia statement reads: “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.”

Recent findings show that the new Nvidia App could be causing performance issues in certain games. A user on X named Sebastian Castellanos posted their

There’s a widely reported issue with the new Nvidia App – the Game Filters feature is causing serious slowdowns.

The site's testing with and without the Nvidia App installed confirms that, across five games running on an RTX 4060, the app reduced average frame rates by around 3 to 6 percent, depending on the resolution and graphical quality level.