Since Nvidia hasn’t migrated all relevant professional features from Control Panel to Nvidia software, for now at least for users of RTX Pro, RTX and Quadro GPUs using Nvidia’s workstation drivers, Control Panel will continue to be installed.
As far as I can tell Reddit and Exploring the Internet ArchiveThe Nvidia Control Panel as it currently exists was introduced in February 2006 in the ForceWare 83.60 driver package. The old GeForce 7 series It was Nvidia’s newest and biggest at the time, but the Control Panel would exist On older cards like the GeForce 2 MX released in 2000.
The look and feel of the Control Panel has changed little since then, mirroring Windows itself: There’s a new, modern, sleek program that handles almost every setting you want to change, but you’re never a few clicks away from a Windows NT-style dialog box that looks pretty much the same as it did 25 years ago.
The Guru3D forum thread the then-new ForceWare release suggests some constants in computing and software development. Many users complain about the regression of functions or the inability to open the new Control Panel at all. One refers to the size of the download (up to 45 MB).
“The new cpanel works for me, but I don’t like the new panel,” writes one poster. “The old man is hurting him.”
