Unless you download all your videos to watch locally, you can ignore all these settings. Adjust video color settings literally only applies to video playback apps run on Windows, like Windows Media Player, and you can change settings like color, brightness, gamma, and so on.In the Video category, there's only two submenus:

If you have a FreeSync or Adaptive Sync display, just enable G-SYNC/G-SYNC Compatible and ignore that warning. G-SYNC Compatible is simply Nvidia's label for monitors that use FreeSync or Adaptive Sync that Nvidia has validated or certified, which is just a marketing thing and has nothing to do with whether the anti-screen tearing technology works. You may notice a warning that says 'Selected Display is not validated as G-SYNC Compatible,' but don't worry, that's not actually a bad thing. You can also choose to apply settings to a specific monitor if you have multiple that have anti-screen tearing technology. Here, you can click a checkbox to enable G-SYNC or G-SYNC Compatible, and then enable it either just in full screen games or both full screen and windowed games (you should definitely enable it in both, by the way). The Set up G-SYNC submenu is also important because it contains more G-SYNC related settings than the Manage 3D Settings submenu contains. You can even set the resolution higher than your monitor's for a brute force kind of anti-aliasing, or even try and overclock your monitor's refresh rate (which is not something Nvidia officially supports, obviously). Click on Customize then Create Custom Resolution and then accept Nvidia's terms and conditions, and you pretty much have free rein over your resolution settings. The other thing here that's interesting is the Customize button, which allows you to set a custom resolution and refresh rate. You'll want to set Output color format to RGB and Output dynamic range to Full. Firstly, you can change the Nvidia color settings, and sometimes your Nvidia GPU by default can use worse color settings. There were two submenus here I said were the most important, and the first one is Change Resolution, which shares many of the options that you can do in the regular Windows Settings app, but it also offers a few other important settings. It's the same thing you can do in the regular Windows display settings. Set up multiple displays allows you to enable and disable monitors, and change their relative positions to each other.Set up G-SYNC is a useful submenu that I'll come back to.

Adjust Desktop Size and Position has quite a few settings but they're mostly to do with how things appear on your monitor(s), and unless you're doing something specific or are experiencing issues like overscan, I'd leave this submenu alone.

Set up digital audio practically does nothing as it just directs you to the old Windows Sound program.

View HDCP Status doesn't have anything you can change in it, and only tells you whether your GPU supports HDCP.

Rotate display is exactly what it sounds like and allows you to rotate the orientation of displays, which you can just do in the normal Windows settings.

You might find this useful if you hate navigating your monitor's OSD, which is generally going to provide better results.

Adjust desktop color settings just contains typical monitor color settings like brightness, contrast, gamma, etc.

Change resolution is actually useful and contains some settings we'll be coming back to.

The Display category has eight whole submenus, and most of them are completely useless. You should change this setting to whatever you use on your primary monitor to ensure that you're getting the benefits of your anti-screen tearing technology.

Monitor Technology is a really important setting if your monitor has G-SYNC, G-SYNC Compatible, FreeSync, or Adaptive Sync.

In most games you shouldn't need to set a max framerate because the refresh rate is usually respected as the maximum framerate, but there are a few that might blow past your refresh rate.

Max Frame Rate can be useful if you have a G-SYNC, G-SYNC Compatible, FreeSync, or Adaptive Sync display, since their anti-screen tearing technologies stop working once the framerate exceeds the refresh rate.

However, this setting is supposed to be CPU intensive and might not run well on all hardware. It's off by default, but you can select 'On' to get the normal version, or 'Ultra' to get an even better effect.

Low Latency Mode (not to be confused with Nvidia Reflex) is a setting you might want to enable if you want to have better response time, which is particularly beneficial in esports titles like Fortnite and Apex Legends.

Today, there's really only three settings you should consider changing: However, most of these settings are also vestiges of a time when driver settings mattered much more for gaming. Easily the most important submenu of all these three is Manage 3D Settings, which is full of graphics options you can change.

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