After 20 years of good and loyal service, Nvidia says goodbye to its control panel and replaces it definitively with its more modern Nvidia App. A migration operation which required more than a year and a half of work.
It’s a long-standing project that is finally coming to fruition for Nvidia. In February 2024, the firm announced the Nvidia App, an application aimed at gradually replacing its reliable but aging control panel (the famous NVCP for short).
After long months of beta, the application was officially launched in November 2024 with the aim of gradually integrating the functionalities of its old control panel.
More than a year and a half later, the project seems to be coming to an end. The latest update to the Game Ready and Studio drivers for Nvidia graphics cards marks the announced retirement of the control panel.
Nvidia retires its control panel
Over the months, the Nvidia App has been enriched with many features inherited from the Nvidia control panel. If the primary emphasis was to integrate the graphics settings, other options were still missing, related to color, video, display and many others. This migration ends this month with the latest update of the Nvidia App while all NVCP options ” have been modernized and transferred to the new client ».
It is important to note that the Control Panel will not disappear when updating Nvidia drivers. It will simply no longer be offered upon their complete reinstallation. You can always reinstall it via the Microsoft Store, but Nvidia warns that it will no longer receive updates: ” we will not add any more features, fixes or other changes to it ».
Owners of RTX PRO graphics cards are not currently affected, because all the features linked to these professional GPUs have not yet been migrated to the Nvidia application.
