NVIDIA Retires Legacy Control Panel for New NVIDIA App while Driver 610.47 Adds DLSS Support and Critical Game Performance Fixes
The GeForce driver's legacy has passed into the annals of computer history. The first of these, the NVIDIA Control Panel, officially ends its long journey today and begins its retirement. Released according to the GeForce News release notes, the application has provided two decades of faithful service in the managing of consumer graphics hardware, but every core function of the consumer card management software has now been redeveloped and ported over to the new NVIDIA App client.
As is common when one driver is replaced by another (especially this major one), not everyone will see their system immediately transition to the new software. For those installing this newest release, GeForce Game Ready and Studio Driver version 610.47 WHQL clean install will entirely remove old NVIDIA Control Panel and for users upgrading a older version may or may not remain in drive and requires manual deletion.
For anyone that has some specific system that must use the old utility at a specific configuration the software will remain available to download manually from the Microsoft store although there will be no additional fixes, updates, or structural improvements for it; workstaation professional users on NVIDIA RTX PRO equipment will continue to be able to use old software for a few more driver iterations until those professionally tailored features are integrated into the new NVIDIA App.
On top of new driver and software releases, it has a number of new game performance improvements on popular and recently released game titles: the driver adds launch day optimization for the soon to be released 007 First Light that will launch with DLSS 4.5 support included and LEGO Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight now adds game performance optimization with DLSS.
Those interested in racing games, should be happy to see launch day optimization for the EA SPORTS F1 25 2026 Season Pack with added path tracing support for its demanding lighting systems as well as support for DLSS features: and that’s not all as it also includes a number of launch day optimizations for World of Tanks HEAT. To add support for a number of new gaming monitors this driver also adds new G SYNC compatible certifications for 40 monitors.
On a less user visible but no less important side the driver updates the developer application to CUDA version 13.3 with improvements in parallel computing for workloads. Many issues involving incorrect rendering and graphical errors are now fixed in this version of driver, including:
- A fix in Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth where the developer team fixed an issue that previously resulted in light and shadow flicker.
- Correction for Enshrouded where a previously persistent issue causing segments of terrain to appear as black boxes is now corrected.
- A fix for multi monitor gaming issues using V SYNC protocols is now implemented.
- Correction for graphical corruption for games built on the Godot engine.
- A fix for Adobe Lightroom Classic crashes and an OpenGL memory leak in Autodesk Forma when performing a camera orbit action.
- Fixes for certain Apple Studio Display XDRs showing a max resolution of 480p and Samsung The Frame game mode display issues.
One known issue that continues to plague the driver update is that a particular system may not see the Prefer Maximum Performance power option correctly.
