Nvidia recently updated some of its clutter of PC apps, including the GPU-controlling GeForce Experience, to a single Nvidia App. And while that makes for fewer icons in your system tray, it seems the new program’s AI features are potentially harming your gaming framerates.

A new report investigating PC game performance on systems using the new NVIDIA app has some startling conclusions on how it could be negatively affecting your games.

Nvidia got PC gamers a questionable holiday gift this year: worse performance in their games. That's according to testing done by Tom's Hardware, who found that playing PC games while running the recently launched Nvidia desktop app can reduce in-game frame rates by as much as 15 percent in some cases.

As reported by Tom’s Hardware, GeForce’s successor, the much less excitingly named Nvidia App, comes with a few default settings that can drain performance by up to 15%. The news started to spread among gaming circles earlier this week,