NVIDIA profile

What to do

1. Open w0a
2. Go to the Fix page in the left menu
3. Type nvidia into the search box
4. Press the button on the NVIDIA profile card

What the card's answer means

After you press it, the card writes a line underneath. Which line you get decides your next step.

• "Fixed — N setting(s) put back to the Windows default." — this was the broken thing and it has been put back. If the problem continues, see below.
• "Nothing to fix — this was already at the Windows default." — these settings were never changed. Whatever you are seeing has another cause, and pressing this card again will not help.
• "Nothing to fix — this component is not installed on this PC." — the thing this card repairs is not present on this Windows. Your edition may not include it, or it may have been removed earlier.
• "Another repair is running." — only one card runs at a time, because several of them would undo each other's work. Wait for it to finish and press again.

What this card actually does

If CS2 shows tearing, in-game VSync is ignored, or the GPU stays at high clocks even when idle, removes the NVIDIA driver profile settings this app wrote, restoring driver defaults.

When w0a writes that profile, it first asks one question — does your monitor have G-Sync or FreeSync (VRR)? — and remembers the answer, because the right V-Sync setting depends on it. Running this card removes the written profile, so on a VRR monitor the V-Sync behaviour you see in CS2 can change back to the driver default; that is the card working, not a new problem. Your remembered VRR answer is kept for the next time the profile is written.

Every repair card writes back the Windows default unconditionally; it does not depend on a backup of w0a's own existing. So it also helps if some other tool was what changed your machine.

If it did not help

If the card said it fixed something and the problem is still there, these settings were not the cause. Write to us — tell us which card you ran and what it printed; the two together are what narrows it down.