NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution

[RejZoR]

I have 32GB RAM, I don't care how much stuff it runs there, but to be honest, NVIDIA Experience thingie is not the fastest thing on Earth. It takes forever to open and I have tons of RAM and hybrid SSD system and yet it still takes long to load.

I also don't see the app useful. I don't want it fiddling with my graphic settings of games. I run all of them at max possible settings, I don't want it "optimizing" stuff and making it worse. So, there is no real value from it for me.

EDIT:
I'd love to see incrimental driver updating like antiviruses are doing for decades (small updates of only file sthat actually changed) with simple control panel to rollback to old driver or even option to rollback to any other previous version. That would be so cool.

This way they could save tons of bandwidth, deliver updates to users in matter of minutes and give them instant option to rollback to old version if something doesn't work ok. It's how driver updating and game profiles should be done in freaking 2015.

 

[W1zzard]

Could TPU host some kind of 'offline installer' for that?

I'll do my best

 

[SKL_H]

It really makes sense if 90% are using NVIDIA Experience and whats nice is that NVIDIA Experience is very neat.

 

[nickbaldwin86]

I unchecked GeForce Experience... I don't like it! nor do I need it. waste of system resources (even tho I have a ton). Just completely unneeded/unwanted.

 

[MilkyWay]

Should just add incremental upgrade via the old nvidia control panel, also that AMD gaming evolved crap is optional i never install it.

 

[Iceni]

This is a shame, The Geforce experience program messes about with my start bar in windows 7.

With 3 monitors running as 1 screen, If I play a game at 5870x1080 and then QTD I can guarantee the start bar will be doing something new. The standard position been centre monitor top. It could end up on the sides of one of the wide monitors, The bottom of one of the screens, Across all 3 screens.

I disabled it for a reason.

 

[john_]

It really makes sense if 90% are using NVIDIA Experience and whats nice is that NVIDIA Experience is very neat.

In Greece when the government wants to rise the price of the tickets in public transportations in Athens, it comes out with reports that 40% of the passengers don't use a ticket. From my experience in multiple occasions, when inspectors get on the bus or a train that I am, they usually find only 1-3 passengers out of usually 30 or 40, without a ticket.

I wouldn't believe that 90%.

 

[bgunner]

Simple, Do not force a program on me that I do not like or don't want to use. There are choices other than Nvidia and not be forced to choke down a performance/resource robbing program. Nope not for me. My next card was going to be another Nvidia but not this time or until they realize they made a boo boo.

 

[Luka KLLP]

I used to have some problems with GE in the past, but lately I it has been working perfectly, and I already use it for my driver updates now anyway

 

[Dieinafire]

This is a smart move by Nvidia

 

[rtwjunkie]

Wow, I'm truly amazed! I don't recall seeing this level of outrage when W10 was announced as forcing updates. There was more of it, but I don't recall this much hostility.

 

[chodaboy19]

Nvidia does give you the option to wait for the larger quarterly updates that will be available as standalone packages you can download.

 

[Fluffmeister]

I have it installed for ShadowPlay anyway, so ultimately a non issue for me.

 

[Ikaruga]

I have it installed for ShadowPlay anyway, so ultimately a non issue for me.

I have to agree. I'm one of those guys who usually installs nothing. I have ROG and other software bundle heavy mainboards and I did not install any of those software, same with my soundcards, etc.... but I installed GE because of ShadowPlay and I did not regret it at all. It sits there and does zero bad for me, + the costless recording with my maxwell2 is really nice. (I do not use any of the other features tho, didn't even scan for my games yet)

 

[lilunxm12]

Well, when 90% of your users use the lazy way, sure. I prefcer manual downloads, because I keep an archive of drivers I've downloaded over the years. Used to go back to the 6x.xx releases, then ZeDestructor's Great Partitioning Fail of 2011 hit and wiped it all.



Err.. wat? GFE is just a neat little program that downloads recommended game settings (based on your GPU config) and lets you apply them, and a neat little GPU-powered game recorder and streaming utility. No ads whatsoever, unless you consider it's support for twitch/youtube streaming to be an ad for twitch/youtube....



According to @rtwjunkie, no.



Couple of hours at most before they get it scripted, then it's a matter of minutes from the notification showing up, if the packager is available.. laptopvideo2go has been doing so for a long time now, and are exceedingly good at it (and patching the infs to support all the GPUs of a single blob).

I don't think it's neat. The reason I uninstalled it was
1) I didn't really need its features
2) I found 3.3GB drive cache in its folder and there's no option in GFE to clear cache

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I've never installed GeForce Experience (deliberately unchecking it) and I'm not about to. Glad I avoid NVIDIA hardware like the plague.

 

[Xzibit]

I guess no one read this part of their plan.

The change in driver distribution will be accompanied by a yet to be fully detailed registration system where NVIDIA will be asking users to register their email addresses with GeForce Experience.

You want drivers give us all your details so we can at the very least spam your e-mail box.

 

[Fluffmeister]

As always it seems it's the AMD users that get most upset, you're not affected guys... relax!

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I work on computers that have NVIDIA cards. This is going to needlessly complicate installing drivers.

Additionally, what about corporate? Tesla? Quadro? IT is going to be pissed.

AMD CCC notifies of new drivers available but does little more than that--as it should be. What is NVIDIA's motive for doing this? It literally takes a few minutes to build a driver package. They aren't saving much/anything by forcing everyone to use GeForce Experience.

 

[AsRock]

Simple, Do not force a program on me that I do not like or don't want to use. There are choices other than Nvidia and not be forced to choke down a performance/resource robbing program. Nope not for me. My next card was going to be another Nvidia but not this time or until they realize they made a boo boo.

But it's the GeForce way it meant to be played.

As always it seems it's the AMD users that get most upset, you're not affected guys... relax!

At least i don't have to install bloatware to install new drivers. Which i bet is connecting to google and shit knows were else without you knowing. Lets face it most don't know as they just use windows firewall at best.

 

[Joss]

I'll do my best

That's the spirit

 

[PLAfiller]

So much punching....on nVidia....this fan shall avenge. Channel the light of nVidia! Phase crystals charged! Speak quickly, executor!

Engage the slanted bastards!

I don't get why people are getting so swept up about this. It's just a project in beta-phase. Nothing is final. The email subscription is optional as is with thousands other services. Not a word on their professional series on this. Quadro and tesla are not generally used for gaming. I seriously doubt this will affect them in some way.

 

[Xzibit]

I work on computers that have NVIDIA cards. This is going to needlessly complicate installing drivers.

Additionally, what about corporate? Tesla? Quadro? IT is going to be pissed.

AMD CCC notifies of new drivers available but does little more than that--as it should be. What is NVIDIA's motive for doing this? It literally takes a few minutes to build a driver package. They aren't saving much/anything by forcing everyone to use GeForce Experience.

Yup. Imagine if the registration system they employ is user/email. You'd have to log-in to GE every time.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Still trying to draw Nvidia in bad light? Zero ads in GE.

Time to buy 64 GB RAM asap... Not.



Like antivirus software, Steam, Origin, Uplay, Windows, smart phones, Facebook...?

FAIL



When you gonna fight against Steam automatic updates? lol

Thank you for laying it out in such a matter-of-fact way to show that it's not bloatware.

 

[qubit]

This sucks. Nice one NVIDIA.

 

[Fluffmeister]

So much punching....on nVidia....this fan shall avenge. Channel the light of nVidia! Phase crystals charged! Speak quickly, executor!

Engage the slanted bastards!

I don't get why people are getting so swept up about this. It's just a project in beta-phase. Nothing is final. The email subscription is optional as is with thousands other services. Not a word on their professional series on this. Quadro and tesla are not generally used for gaming. I seriously doubt this will affect them in some way.

Stop talking sense and get your pitchfork out!