Nvidia is ending support for the classic Control Panel

Nvidia dropped a new GeForce Game Ready driver yesterday, but it also quietly announced something else on its forum. The long-standing Nvidia Control Panel is losing support.

This has been coming for a while. In a major Nvidia App update back in 2024, Nvidia began migrating over Control Panel features. In a recent update to the app, the final ‘supported' Control Panel features were brought into the Nvidia App version, so the old control panel is being retired.

Here is what the forum post said:

“With the introduction of our most recent NVIDIA App update, all actively supported NVIDIA Control Panel features for GeForce users have been modernized and transitioned to the new client.

After 20 years of dedicated service, the classic NVIDIA Control Panel is officially retiring for Game Ready and Studio Drivers. For NVIDIA RTX PRO users, the NVIDIA Control Panel will continue to be supported until we have migrated professional features to the NVIDIA app.

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.”

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