Best NVIDIA Control Panel Settings for Better FPS & Quality

Whether you are new to the PC Master Race, or just want to extract more gaming performance from your NVIDIA GPU, we will show you some of the best NVIDIA Control Panel settings to play around with, so you can get better FPS in your games. You might not necessarily see huge performance gains from these tweaks, especially if you have a modern GPU. Still, these changes in NVIDIA Control Panel settings will configure your system to the most optimum state, making your games look the best and run well on the most optimized settings.

With that said, let’s look at the NVIDIA Control Panel settings you should change right away. These settings give the same results, whether you have a laptop or a desktop.

Before we begin, make sure to update your GPU drivers using our dedicated guide. With the latest GPU drivers, you will be receiving major updates that will improve the gaming performance for latest titles, as well as include new optimizations and hotfixes.

Adjusting image settings with preview will change how the GPU will render 3D images and objects in games you play on your PC. Setting it to Performance can help with FPS, especially on older PCs. Here’s how you do that:

You should note that selecting the NVIDIA GPU under Global Settings, all the games or apps on your PC will use the dedicated GPU, which consumes more power.

Note: If you have a gaming laptop, go to program settings instead and set the dedicated GPU for specific games.

The following settings tweaks (up to the 9th point) will be in the same section, and you can find them by simply scrolling down. So, make sure to set them either for Program Settings (for specific games and applications), or Global Settings to apply the settings widely to everything that runs on your GPU.

This settings provides a major visual benefit, as it makes objects in a game look sharper from a distance by improving the appearance of textures viewed at steep angles. Still, disabling it can improve FPS slightly, but it shouldn’t be disabled for modern graphics cards.

Image scaling, also known as NIS or NVIDIA Image Scaling, can improve the image quality of your games. You can set a custom sharpening setting which works for you in the NVIDIA Control Panel.

Antialiasing (AA) is a technique that smooths out the edges seen in the images while playing a game. In most cases, letting the game do its own AA is best, but let’s look at how to disable it for better FPS on lower-end PCs.

Enabling ‘Low Latency Mode’ nets you faster input response time in games. By the way, if your game supports NVIDIA Reflex, this will be overridden.

Usually, Open GL Rendering GPU is set to the auto-detect setting. Still, you can select the GPU manually with this. If you have multiple GPUs as a workstation user, setting a specific NVIDIA GPU for OpenGL rendering can be done here.

Usually, this is set to the ‘Adaptive’ setting, which is actually recommended for most people as the GPU will have lower temperatures and adapt to whatever you’re doing. Although, changing it could provide some performance benefits. To be sure if your GPU temperatures are in check, do check out this guide.

Texture Filtering reduces blurriness, gives better quality, and reduces visual artifacts. Let’s look at how to adjust this setting in the NVIDIA Control Panel:

Furthermore, it is recommended to set PhysX settings to the GPU for the best experience. In NVIDIA’s FAQ page, they specifically say that “PhysX runs faster and will deliver more realism by running on the GPU,” so let’s see how we can change this.

If you know about your monitor’s refresh rate, but it doesn’t show up here, follow our guide on changing the refresh rate in Windows.

If your monitor supports NVIDIA GSync, or even AMD Freesync, you should turn this setting on. NVIDIA had an update in the past which enabled many Freesync monitors to support GSync technology on its NVIDIA GPUs. Enabling GSync will make things look a lot smoother while gaming, as your monitor will dynamically adjust its refresh rate with the real-time FPS of the game. This reduces tearing. Check out detailed GSync vs Freesync comparison to know more.

That said, here is how you can enable GSync in NVIDIA Control Panel settings:

Frequently Asked Questions

Ensure that the highest performance power plan is selected under Battery settings of Windows.

For the best quality, you should configure different 3D settings such as for Anisotropic Filtering, Antialiasing (AA) mode, and Image Scaling to the ‘Quality’ settings.

Set your quality preference to ‘Performance’ instead, under ‘Adjust Settings with Image Preview’. Then set different 3D Settings under ‘Manage 3D Settings’ to the ‘Performance’ setting. Also, lower the graphical quality in your games to increase FPS.

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