The Forceware driver package comes with the NVIDIA Control Panel which offers adjustments to 3D settings, displays, and colors, while the nTune package contains all of the controls for overclocking, system tuning, and hardware monitoring. The load times for the application average several seconds on our test system, which is faster than the Catalyst Control Center but slower than any of the third-party utilities we're looking at.Īs we noted previously, NVIDIA's utilities are split in to two parts as a result of the preparation work they did for Vista. The actual memory usage of this varies depending on what sub-controls are accessed, we've seen it use as little as 16MB when using text based controls, or as high as 45MB when using the image preview controls, the latter putting it on par with the Catalyst Control Center. While we can't isolate the exact size of the package because they bundle their NVIDIA Control Panel with their drivers, and their nTune application for both their video cards and motherboards, the net weight of the package is a massive 82MB. NVIDA's utility set earns the special distinction of being by far the largest download out of all of the utilities we're looking at today.
