The CapFrameX account, a software to analyze the framerate and test hardware, discovered that GeForce Experience overlay significantly impaired performance in Cyberpunk 2077 in versions of drivers prior to version 472.12 released this last Monday, with which these performance losses stopped when activating the overlay.
The tests were done with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, and according to CapFrameX By having the overlay activated, the average FPS rate dropped about 2 FPS, and the biggest problem was the FPS drops, which reached up to 33 FPS. when the game never went below 54 FPS by having the overlay disabled.
CapFrameX pointed out that their tests showed the same results running their program alone or in conjunction with other monitoring tools, although curiously the problem was only with this game. Quick tests with Metro Exodus showed that there was no difference in performance when activating or deactivating the overlay, although no games other than these two were tested.
The latest version of drivers fixes the problem
Apparently these tests were done with an old version of the Nvidia drivers and that’s why this problem occurred. After a little conversation with Manuel Guzman from NVIDIA, the CapFrameX account mentioned that they were going to do new tests with the latest drivers to find out if these performance losses continued to occur.
Impact of the Nvidia Performance Overlay on the frame times can no longer be reproduced with the latest driver. I have tried several variants.@ManuelGuzman https://t.co/NaFH18Sdhq
— CapFrameX (@CapFrameX) September 23, 2021
On this day, CapFrameX confirmed that they have not been able to reproduce the effect with the latest version of GeForce drivers, so it seems that this problem was fixed. In this way, if you have a problem of low FPS when activating the GeForce Experience overlay, we recommend updating your drivers to avoid them.
What do you think about this oversight from NVIDIA? Did you experience FPS drops when activating the GeForce Experience overlay in any other game?
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