There is a new GeForce Game Ready Driver out today, and on the surface it looks like a routine game-optimization release. Dig one line deeper, though, and you will find something a little more historic buried in the notes: the classic NVIDIA Control Panel is officially gone for GeForce users, replaced entirely by the NVIDIA App after two decades of service.
Driver 610.47 WHQL is Game Ready for 007 First Light, which launches today on PC and consoles from IO Interactive. It also covers LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, the EA SPORTS F1 25: 2026 Season Pack, and World of Tanks: HEAT. Beyond game profiles, this release opens the new R610 driver branch and bumps CUDA support to version 13.3. There are a handful of bug fixes worth knowing about: shadow and light flicker in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is resolved, missing terrain textures in Enshrouded are corrected, visual corruption in Godot-engine titles has been addressed, and multi-monitor stability when running V-SYNC has been improved. Adobe Lightroom Classic stability issues and a memory leak in Autodesk Forma also got the attention they deserved.
Now, the bigger story. NVIDIA’s announcement confirms that the classic Control Panel is retiring for Game Ready and Studio Driver users. A clean installation of 610.47 removes the old panel entirely; upgrading over an existing driver leaves it behind on your system until you wipe it manually. If you still need it, NVIDIA is keeping a download available on the Microsoft Store, but no new features, bug fixes, or updates will follow. Professional RTX PRO users get a temporary exception while NVIDIA migrates remaining enterprise features into the NVIDIA App, after which the Control Panel disappears from that segment too.
The Control Panel launched alongside the GeForce FX series in the early 2000s and became the primary destination for GPU tweaks that GeForce Experience never quite fully absorbed: custom resolution creation, ambient occlusion overrides, maximum pre-rendered frame limits, color calibration, digital vibrance, G-Sync management, and the deep per-application overrides that PC enthusiasts actually use. The NVIDIA App, introduced last year, has been absorbing those features over time, but whether it handles all edge cases as reliably as the old panel remains a point of ongoing community debate. The subreddits are already full of people checking their lists.
For most users running a clean install, the transition will be seamless enough. For the people who have been running the same tweaked Control Panel profile for three years, tonight might be a good time to screenshot your settings before updating.
Driver 610.47 WHQL is available now via the NVIDIA App or GeForce.com for Windows 10 and Windows 11 64-bit systems. Let us know in the forums if the NVIDIA App has been a painless replacement for you, or if something is still missing.