NVIDIA driver settings without the NVIDIA App. Talks directly to NvAPI, no overlay, no telemetry, no background services. Windows 10/11, NVIDIA driver 500+.
Download NoVidiaApp.exe from Releases and run it. Single executable, no installer. Settings are written straight to the driver's profile database via NvAPI — the same surface NVIDIA Control Panel and NVIDIA Profile Inspector use, so anything you change here is what the driver actually applies to your games.
The app is built around the three things people actually open the NVIDIA App or NVCP for:
- Global Profile — a curated set of ~40 driver settings grouped into Performance, Quality, Display, DLSS, and VR. Each setting has a plain-English explanation and a dropdown of the real driver values. No 500-item firehose like Profile Inspector, no hidden settings buried three tabs deep like the NVIDIA App. Change a thing, click save, the driver has it.
- Game Profiles — scans your Steam, Epic, and GOG libraries and shows your installed games in one list with the library each came from. Pick a game, override its DLSS preset (or any other per-game setting) and the driver will apply that override the next time the game launches. Works on every game, whitelist or no whitelist — DLSS Override, Ray Reconstruction Override, Frame Generation Override are all just driver settings under the hood, and that's what this tool writes.
- Driver Updater — pulls Game Ready and Studio driver packages directly from NVIDIA's CDN, hash-verified, on your schedule. No GeForce Experience, no account, no "checking..." spinner that times out.
Every change you make is also snapshotted to %LOCALAPPDATA%\NoVidiaApp\profiles.json and re-applied on startup, so a clean driver re-install doesn't wipe your tweaks. User-created game profiles get recreated with their executable bindings; setting values get replayed. Auto-start with Windows and minimize-to-tray are available if you want the re-apply to happen invisibly at boot.
Setting IDs, value tables, and the NvAPI P/Invoke wrapper come from Orbmu2k/nvidiaProfileInspector — years of reverse-engineering work without which this app wouldn't exist. UI is Avalonia with CommunityToolkit.Mvvm. MIT.
NoVidiaApp doesn't uninstall the NVIDIA App for you and doesn't fight it at runtime. If both are installed, the last one to write a setting wins. Uninstall the NVIDIA App if you want this tool to be authoritative — driver settings will keep working on their own.
AI was used in the development of this project. If that's a dealbreaker for you, fork it or move on — don't open issues about it. Bug reports and feature requests are welcome.
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