Download: GeForce 531.18 WHQL drivers

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Darren Hodgson:

Has the NVIDIA control panel option been removed from the system tray icon for Windows 11 with this driver because I only have GeForce Experience after installing 531.18. I can still right-click the desktop and access the NVIDIA control panel that way but I always had both methods with previous drivers.
You can enable it in the nvcp, in one of the menus at the top of the nvcp window.
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Darren Hodgson:

Has the NVIDIA control panel option been removed from the system tray icon for Windows 11 with this driver because I only have GeForce Experience after installing 531.18. I can still right-click the desktop and access the NVIDIA control panel that way but I always had both methods with previous drivers.
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Same here, only GFE is available on systray even if I have nvcp systray icon enabled in nvcp
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Destiny2 Lightfall , flicker is still possible on fog and certain glass/window surfaces, so far I saw only in 2 locations. One part with fog on the floor near light source, the other was on ship window looking out side, but not whole window , just one part where you could see a ship in the distance with a light source on exhaust engines and that part could flicker at certain angle.
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It's insane.. RTX VSR takes my power draw to over 300 Watts!!! This is VSR level 4 - RTX 3090 - Chrome 110.0.5481.178 watching twitch 1080p60 - full screen (Two monitor setup, gesync off, scaling off) This must be a bug? Same behavior on edge (Notice, 300 Watt is only FULL SCREEN)
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And here comparison without VSR, same twitch stream:
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SesioNLive:

It's insane.. RTX VSR takes my power draw to over 300 Watts!!!
Welcome to the club lol
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Krteq:

Same here, only GFE is available on systray even if I have nvcp systray icon enabled in nvcp
Same here. First time I've seen this. Not a big problem, but it is convenient to have access to it in the system tray icon.
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Krteq:

Edge isn't supported yet
It is supported as it's Chromium based but I am not noticing any difference in Twitch Videos or VODs. Gerardo Delgado on Twitter: "@mukbun1 Yup! The first version is coming out for Chrome and Edge did RTX 40 and 30 series users. But after that we want to expand it to RTX 20 users and other Chromium based browsers. I'm on @brave so I need that 😛" / Twitter Edit - okay not working on multimonitor setup. I tried it on my main Primary monitor and holy moly WTF is with the power draw. 170 Watts! F*** That. I'm turning it off!!
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Yeah, SpajdrEX already corrected me and I also reported it's even working in Opera Dev
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Darren Hodgson:

Has the NVIDIA control panel option been removed from the system tray icon for Windows 11 with this driver because I only have GeForce Experience after installing 531.18. I can still right-click the desktop and access the NVIDIA control panel that way but I always had both methods with previous drivers.
Its a bug, I can only see Geforce Experience as well, and i do not have it installed even lol
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quality level 3 and 4 consumes a lot of video card resources, I stopped at 1 quality level:D:D:D
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Am I the only one experiencing msi afterburner being unable to change power limit after the update?
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ZebMacahan:

Same here. First time I've seen this. Not a big problem, but it is convenient to have access to it in the system tray icon.
Just left click on the icon to launch NVCP until they fix this bug.
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Super resolution does look good, but was drawing 350w on my card, not worth it haha
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astavra12:

Am I the only one experiencing msi afterburner being unable to change power limit after the update?
what's the issue, is it grayed out or just reverts to 100% after setting higher? Just set mine to 108 and "looks" ok.
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astavra12:

Am I the only one experiencing msi afterburner being unable to change power limit after the update?
works fine on my end to change power limit after updating:
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Wow, I tried the Super Resolution option on setting 4 and watched a 1080p60 YouTube video in Edge (v110.x.x) and saw the power hit 320 W monitored using GPU-Z. Even on setting 1 it uses 320 W. Turn Super Resolution off and GPU power usage drops down to 99-102 W and, to add insult to injury, the video I was watching didn't look any different. Not that I could see anyway. Seriously, what is the point of this feature? It seems like a massive power hog for very little noticeable improvement. If there is any then it is not worth three times the power draw in my opinion. Why does this feature draw such much power?
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EdKiefer:

what's the issue, is it grayed out or just reverts to 100% after setting higher? Just set mine to 108 and "looks" ok.
It's grayed out nvclean could have caused it idk
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Darren Hodgson:

Even on setting 1 it uses 320 W.
Make sure to close browser if you change VSR quality, otherwise it won't accept your new settings and will keep using previous one.