Tweaking Nvidia Control Panel for its peak performance might not be an easy job for everyone, moreover, there are tons of settings that can override your application/game settings as per your wish. Nvidia control panel also allows you to set your preferred Physx processor, you can choose between your CPU or your Discrete Graphics card.
After you open the Control Panel you will get an information icon on the lower left side, post clicking it a window will open with all the details such as Driver type, DirectX type, your graphics card name, number of CUDA core, etc. It is also very useful to know if you have a DCH or Standard graphics driver installed in your system.
You can manage global 3D settings for applications/games, or you can even set custom settings/overrides for each program separately. This short article will teach you about the very basic settings of the Nvidia Control Panel, and how you can customize them on your own to get your desired results. We strongly believe that copying a set of settings from YouTube videos is of no use until and unless you are truly aware of what you are changing.
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Here’s what you need to know!
- Head over to manage 3D settings, click on Global settings tab, here you can tweak your global graphics settings for programs/games as per your wish.
- For increased performance make sure the Power management mode is set to Prefer maximum Performance.
- You can force Vertical Sync from here if it is broken in the application/game exe.
- Keep threaded optimizations on Auto, applications supporting multiple CPUs can benefit from it, you can also force it for particular applications by clicking on program settings next to Global settings. In other words, more performance with multiple CPU-capable programs.
- If you want more performance/fps and you don’t mind compromising with quality, then you can put texture filtering to High Performance.
- Make sure CUDA GPUs is set to all/your discrete Nvidia graphics card.
- For stutter-free performance you can turn on V-Sync along with triple buffering, it drastically improves performance and stabilizes your application/game.
- You can also limit your frame rate by clicking on the Maximum frame rate option from the menu, especially if you have a 60hz display, along with a over-powered GPU.
- Anisotropic Filtering should be kept at auto, it affects the crispiness of textures.
- Ambient occlusion reduces the intensity of ambient light on surfaces blocked by surrounding objects, which results in increased realism, you can set it to quality if you want more details or performance if you want details, but without compromising on performance.
- If you have a GTX 1050 Ti or higher card, then consider setting the default PhysX processor as your discrete graphics card.
- Antialiasing-FXAA is a post-processing technique, that’s based on shader, if turned on, this can be applied to even the applications that don’t support hardware-based antialiasing. This may improve your image quality when used correctly with other antialiasing settings. Turn it off for improved performance.
- Trilinear Texture Filtering improves texture filtering performance, as it uses bilinear filtering in scenes where Trilinear filtering is of no use.
- Low Latency Mode can vastly effect latency if turned on, this is a very useful feature that you get in the Nvidia Control panel as it can limit quened frames to 1.
- Antialiasing-Transparency is a feature which can minimize visible aliasing on the image edges, that has transparent textures.
- The image sharpening feature simply increases the level of sharpness or details in scenes.
