After 20 years of service, Nvidia is officially retiring the Nvidia Control Panel for good and replacing it with the Nvidia App. According to the patch notes for Nvidia’s latest Game Ready driver, the control panel will no longer have new features added to it, and will no longer be bundled with the latest Game Ready and Studio drivers for GeForce GPUs. The only exception is RTX Pro GPUs, where Nvidia will keep supporting the control panel until all “professional features” have been migrated to the Nvidia App.
The Nvidia Control Panel will now live in a “maintenance mode” for the foreseeable future. Users who still want to use the Nvidia Control Panel won’t be forced to use outdated Nvidia drivers to keep the control panel installed. Future driver updates will not delete the control panel from a user's PC unless they are installed with the “clean install” method. Nvidia is also keeping the control panel downloadable through the Microsoft Store.
