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This question comes up constantly and I finally put it to a proper test. 10 benchmark runs on both, same hardware, same settings, real ranked play. The results were honestly not what I expected going in.

There are some real differences between the two worth knowing about before you make the switch or decide to stay where you are. What OS are you currently running and have you ever noticed a difference in game?

With driver 610.47, NVIDIA officially pulled the Control Panel from the default install. No more right-click menu, no more system tray icon. The NVIDIA App is now the only game in town for managing your GPU settings.

If you already had GeForce Experience or the NVIDIA App installed before updating, you're fine, it carries over and stays as long as you keep it installed. But if you did a clean install or never had it, you'll need to grab it separately.

A lot of people in our community were confused about where to even start, especially coming from years of using NVIDIA Control Panel, so we put together a beginner walkthrough covering the full setup, DDU clean install, where all your settings moved, and what's actually worth configuring in the App.

Also worth noting, if I missed anything or got something wrong, cut me some slack. I'm learning the App myself after 20 years with the Control Panel. Drop it in the comments and I'll get it corrected.

With NVIDIA moving everything into the NVIDIA App, I’ve noticed a lot of the old driver and optimization advice people still follow is either outdated or no longer applies the same way.

Curious what everyone else is doing now. Are you just updating through the NVIDIA App, using DDU every update, or sticking with older drivers until something forces you to move?

I know stretched res is common in CS/Fortnite, but I barely see COD or Warzone players talk about it seriously.

I tested native 1440p vs 1720x1080 stretched using the built-in COD benchmark instead of random gameplay clips, and the difference was bigger than I expected.

Not saying it is magic, and it obviously does not change hitboxes. The image is softer, but the GPU is rendering fewer pixels, so if you are GPU-bound it can actually matter.

I put together a walkthrough with the benchmark result, setup, and how to reverse it if it feels worse.

Curious what people here think: anyone actually running stretched in COD/Warzone, or is native still the move?

I’ve always seen stretched res talked about in CS/Fortnite circles, but not as much for CoD, so I wanted to test it properly.

Used the built-in CoD benchmark instead of random gameplay clips and compared native 1440p vs 1720x1080 stretched.

Not saying it is magic, and it definitely does not change hitboxes. The tradeoff is a softer image and a different visual feel.

I put together a walkthrough with the benchmark result, setup, and how to reverse it back to native if it feels worse.

Curious what others here think: do you use stretched res, native, or something in between?

As a follow-up to my last post, someone asked if I could compare default XMP against fully tuned RAM in the BO7 benchmark.

Been testing it a bit and honestly starting to think XMP is the biggest practical jump for most gaming setups.

Stock BIOS had much higher latency, but once XMP/safe BIOS tuning was enabled, latency dropped hard and the CPU-side FPS/1% lows improved noticeably.

Full RAM tuning still helped, but the average FPS gain was much smaller because the game was already mostly GPU-bound.

Curious how many people here stop at XMP and call it done versus actually tuning secondaries/primaries for gaming.