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nHancer is an advanced control panel and profile editor developed by Martin Korndörfer for NVIDIA graphics cards. nHancer provides a wider range of 3D settings most especially for games, thus it is generally used to improve the user's gaming experience. Compared to NVIDIA's default control panel, nHancer features more settings for users to work with. It is not only designed for experienced users, but for new users as well, since nHancer gives a brief but detailed description for each 3D setting. nHancer also offers compatibility settings for customization, such as Anti-aliasing compatibility and DirectX compatibility, making it a helpful tool for improving performance.

The current stable version is 2.5.7, released on October 11th, 2009.

How nHancer Works

Upon installation of nHancer, it immediately detects the user's custom NVIDIA profiles and imports them into its own profile storage, along with the specific 3D settings of every custom profile. If the user has recently changed drivers, nHancer automatically saves a backup of all the custom profiles from the previous driver. After the new driver has been installed, it then asks the user whether they would like to import the custom profiles from the previous driver to the new one, making it easier for users to maintain their desired specific 3D settings for their games.

nHancer works together with the NVIDIA Control Panel, meaning that whenever a user modifies a particular custom profile in nHancer, the changes are also saved in the NVIDIA Control Panel's 3D settings, therefore the user will not need to perform further modifications.

Features

(taken from nHancer's Official Website)

   * Support of Forceware/GeForce drivers version 60 and later (with nHancer 2.4.5), including the new 190+ versions
   * Support of all GeForce cards, including the new GeForce GTX 2x0 lines
   * Supports Windows Vista, Windows 7 and DirectX 10
   * Support for single card, SLI, Quad-SLI and DirectX 10 SLI systems
   * On-the-fly control of all global quality and performance-enhancing settings for all games
   * Create and manage fully automated profiles for all your games
   * Very easy to use, explains all options and their effects, like Anti Aliasing, Anisotropic Filtering, etc.
   * Special options for nVidia's SLI feature, allowing you to to use almost every game with SLI even if nVidia doesn't support it
   * Offers additional Anti Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering modes, that are not available through nVidia's control panel
   * Allows the modification of fixed settings included in nVidia's predefined profiles.
   * Flexible user interface: change the size of the window and all sub areas
   * User interface and help texts available in various languages (right now English, German, Polish and Italian)
   * Coexists perfectly with nVidia's own control panel and other tools, like aTuner or RivaTuner. nHancer will immediately detect any changes made by any other tool.

System Requirements

(taken from nHancer's Official Website)

  * Any NVIDIA GeForce graphic card
  * Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista (32 and 64bit)
  * Forceware driver version 60 or higher (nHancer 2.4.5)
  * Forceware driver version 182 or higher (nHancer 2.5.1 or later)
  * MS .NET Framework 3.5 or later

References

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^ nHancer user reviews

External links

[1] Hancer user reviews

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