NVIDIA Control Panel

About the NVIDIA Control Panel

Welcome to the NVIDIA Control Panel, designed for Microsoft Windows Vista, and Windows 7. You can use NVIDIA Control Panel to control your NVIDIA hardware and access other NVIDIA software installed on your system.

Overview

In addition to setting up basic display configurations such as display resolution, refresh rate, and multiple display use, you can:

  • Tune your 3D settings with realtime preview to maximize performance or image quality
  • Customize how 3D applications work in your system
  • Adjust your screen colors and contrast
  • Set custom timings
  • Control video image settings
  • Change your HDTV format
  • Control your notebook system power using PowerMizer
  • Control special workstation features such as Frame Synchronization.

Feature Differences from the Classic Control Panel

The following are features that were available in the NVIDIA classic control panel, but which are not available in the new NVIDIA Control Panel:

  • Creating/Importing Color Profiles
  • High Resolution Scalable Desktop
  • Video Zoom
  • Full-screen video mirroring
  • Edge Blending
  • nView Desktop Manager
    nView Desktop Manager is available through the Windows control panel as a separate applet (Windows XP only).
  • MultiView Display Mode (for NVIDIA Quadro NVS graphics cards)
    As of driver Release 173, MultiView is available from the Windows Display Properties->Settings->Advanced tab for Windows XP only.

Changes in Release 270

NVIDIA Control Panel Updates
General Interface

  • Added NVIDIA Update feature that notifies you when there is a driver available for download from nvidia.com that is newer than what you have installed.
    This is an optional feature that you have the opportunity to install or not install when installing the Release 270 or later driver.

3D Vision / Stereoscopic 3D

  • Added controls for turning 3D windowed mode on or off.

Supported Operating Systems

NVIDIA Release 270 Graphics drivers are available for the following Microsoft Windows operating systems:

  • Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup 2
  • Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005/2004
  • Windows XP Professional
  • Windows XP Home Edition
  • Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
  • Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
  • Windows Vista Home Basic
  • Windows Vista Home Premium
  • Windows Vista Business
  • Windows Vista Enterprise Edition
  • Windows Vista Ultimate
  • Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit Editions

Other NVIDIA Software Applications

If installed, other NVIDIA software that you can access from the NVIDIA Control Panel
includes:

  • NVIDIA System Tools–Performance group and System Update
  • NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D
  • NVIDIA MediaShield

Online Manual of NVIDIA Control Panel