New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….
Original story (published on April 15, 2022) follows:
Founded in 1993 and based in Santa Clara, California, NVIDIA is popular for making GPUs and is a global leader in AI.
In February this year, the company declared that it will be dropping its decision to acquire ARM. The deal was the biggest in the chip industry and valued at $66 billion.
That said, the company also offers an application known as NVIDIA Control Panel where users can adjust their graphic settings. It features a toggle known as ‘Image Sharpening’, something a lot of gamers use to improve their in-game sharpness without incurring a performance penalty.
However, the recent versions of the NVIDIA Control Panel seem to be missing the Image Sharpening feature (1,2,3,4,5). Many are frustrated and wondering why the developers decided to remove something so useful.
While Image Sharpening is available as part of GeForce Experience, this version of the feature causes significant performance loss. As it turns out, NVIDIA has replaced ‘Image Sharpening’ with Image Scaling, which is not the same.
Unfortunately, we are yet to come across any official word from NVIDIA on the matter. But we found a workaround that might help enable the missing Image Sharpening feature back to NVIDIA Control Panel.
It involves modifying the registry settings so make sure you create a system restore point or back up your data just in case.
In case you don’t know how to open Windows Registry, open Run and type ‘regedit’ without the quotes. Then navigate to the below mentioned key and change the value of ‘EnableGR535’ key to zero.
After doing the following steps, either exit the NVIDIA Control Panel or restart your system. After you relaunch the Control Panel, the Image Sharpening toggle will be back.
Update 1 (Oct. 21, 2022)
13:22 pm (IST): According to one of our readers, the issue where the image sharpening feature is missing from NVIDIA Control Panel is Warzone-specific. Here’s how it can be fixed:
Thanks for the tip: Sarthak Sharma
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