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3 Best Nvidia Control Panel Settings For Gaming: [Boost FPS]

Nvidia control panel is an amazing tool using which one can enhance the performance and quality of any game. It provides a couple of excellent settings using which we can improve the game playing experience. One should have knowledge of these settings and their implementation to use them in the best way.

Today, we will make you know about the following 3 best Nvidia control panel settings.

  1. Ambient Occlusion

  2. Anisotropic filtering

  3. Power management mode

For this, you have to open the Nvidia control panel. Look for it in the Windows search bar and click it. After it gets open, have a look at the left sidebar. In 3D settings, click on “Manage 3D settings” and all the settings will be listed on the right side.

Let us now check these settings.

  1. Ambient Occlusion

It is a very important technique in computer graphics. With its help, we can calculate how much brightness and darkness should be given to every point in the game. In a game, some parts will be much exposed to sunlight and some parts won’t be exposed, with this technique we can figure out how much exposure we should give to these parts.

ambient occlusion nvidia control panel

Source: forums.evga.com

You must know about this setting as proper lighting and shadow details can be given with its knowledge. Turn this setting on and your game quality will get enhanced, it will definitely consume more GPU power and battery but you will enjoy playing the game more.

You can turn it off if you feel that game performance is highly affected.

  1. Anisotropic filtering

Anisotropic filtering is a technique to make the image quality of textures better. At the time you play the game, you will notice that the surfaces look much sharper when you turn this setting on.

Anisotrophic filtering in nvidia control panel

Source: redd.it

If this setting is turned off then you won’t see the surfaces sharp, you will see them blur. For example, when your player roams around, the surface of the street will look blur when this setting is off, you need to turn it on to have a detailed, sharp look to enjoy playing the game even more.

Set the setting to the maximum: 16X value and see how much improvement it has brought to the game. If you feel any degradation in the game then you can turn this setting off anytime.

  1. Power Management Mode

This is a good option about which every gamer should be knowing. You can save power using this mode. Nvidia knows that a lot of power is consumed while playing high-end graphic games so it has introduced this mode with which you can save power.

nvidia control panel power management mode

Source: google-image

There are three options: Adaptive, Optimal power, and Performance mode. Performance mode will consume the highest battery providing the best game performance. Optimal power will consume the lowest power and provide restricted performance too. Adaptive is between both, one should start with it and see how good is the performance.

If performance is not that good then one can switch to Performance mode anytime.

So, here were the 3 best Nvidia control panel settings that one can apply while playing the game. Start tweaking these settings and see how much improvement and enhancement is made in the game. Keep following Technographx to get more such informative technical posts!