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Nvidia Retires 20-Year-Old Control Panel for New Unified App

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After two decades, Nvidia is phasing out its iconic Nvidia Control Panel, with new driver updates exclusively available through the new Nvidia App. While the Control Panel will remain downloadable from the Microsoft Store and supported for RTX Pro GPUs until professional features migrate, it will no longer receive new feature additions. This move consolidates Nvidia's driver and control functionalities into a single, unified application, aligning with the company's goal to streamline user experience. AI

IMPACT Streamlines GPU management for users, consolidating features into a single application.

RANK_REASON Product update/deprecation from a major hardware vendor.

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Nvidia Retires 20-Year-Old Control Panel for New Unified App

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Aaron Klotz ·

    Nvidia is finally ditching its iconic Control Panel after 20 years — new driver updates only ship in the Nvidia App

    Nvidia has finally retired its 20-year-old control panel for GeForce GPUs. From now on, new GeForce drivers will only include the Nvidia App.

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Nvidia has retired its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years Nvidia announced more than two years ago that it was working to replace its Control Panel app on

    Nvidia has retired its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years Nvidia announced more than two years ago that it was working to replace its Control Panel app on Windows with a new Nvidia app. After porting across various features to the Nvidia app, Nvidia is announcing today that…

    LINKS theverge.com/…/nvidia-geforce-control-pan…

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