Teletraan1
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Nvidia plans to lock Game Ready drivers behind GeForce Experience registration
- Thread starter ashecitism
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You have to register every time?
zephervack
Member
They didnt even wait for AMD to die before starting doing shit like this, no way.
derExperte
Member
Wasn't there some mouse driver which forced you to register and be online to get at some features? Afair they later backed down an removed that nonsense.
Icanplaythat
Member
WTF, I uninstalled GFE because I got tired of disabling shadow play after every install/update and I didn't like or use any of the features that it offers. This is bullshit.
I need rollbacks. GFE doesn't give that option. Nvidia's website does.
For instance, I was playing Bioshock 2 Minerva's Den last week when midway I decided to update to the latest Nvidia drivers. Suddenly I started getting major graphical glitching everywhere, the kind you expect when your GPU dies. Made the game completely unplayable. I tried other games and they were fine so it didn't seem like the GPU was dying. Rolled back to the previous driver and Bioshock 2 ran fine again with no glitches.
Getting rid of the ability to just rollback to the previous driver is a bad, bad, bad idea with so many games out their that all interact slightly differently with every driver set.
For instance, I was playing Bioshock 2 Minerva's Den last week when midway I decided to update to the latest Nvidia drivers. Suddenly I started getting major graphical glitching everywhere, the kind you expect when your GPU dies. Made the game completely unplayable. I tried other games and they were fine so it didn't seem like the GPU was dying. Rolled back to the previous driver and Bioshock 2 ran fine again with no glitches.
Getting rid of the ability to just rollback to the previous driver is a bad, bad, bad idea with so many games out their that all interact slightly differently with every driver set.
Fucking stupid.... those companies some times. Hopefully sites like Guru3d with be able to extract the installer and host it that's if Nvidia don't chase them.
Such having Keepass is great and makes this a non issue but really I don't want to have to register for more unneeded accounts with the way security is getting compromised these days.
Such having Keepass is great and makes this a non issue but really I don't want to have to register for more unneeded accounts with the way security is getting compromised these days.
NeOak
Member
MrTroubleMaker
Member
F this. I don't use GeForce Experience, i don't need it and don't want it.
paperspace
Member
I think that was Razer.
Stevey
Member
Bullshit
Hahaha yes. I could barely play Battlefront due to the poor drivers, haha!
spindoctor
Member
This is unbelievably stupid.
They have to go back on this idea right? The whole world is about to tell them how stupid it is.
They have to go back on this idea right? The whole world is about to tell them how stupid it is.
Hopefully the backlash is strong so they reverse course.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
Are people going to sell their cards and pick up AMD cards over this? No, they will get away with it because there is barely any competition.
Also, I would say most people don't update their drivers that much so the 4 times a year updates sounds about right.
AwesomeMeat
PossumMeat
I didn't know that you could the game ready drivers without the geforce experience stuff.... so I guess I don't really care. As someone who came from an AMD card prior to my GTX970 - I'm just thrilled drivers get updated at all.
Guru3D has had "leaks" and several mirrors for years, for example. What are they going to do? Shut them down? Add DRM to drivers? Force online connection to GeForce Experience or it won't install? Are going to need fucking cracks to install drivers without it?
This is either a misunderstanding or it will backfire pretty badly.
This is either a misunderstanding or it will backfire pretty badly.
Caayn
Member
Same experience here. I expected superb drivers and software when I bought an NVIDIA GPU, what I got was good drivers, shitty UI software that even a junior programmer can do better and settings (even SLI) that keep getting reset after a driver update no matter how I install the update.
I won't. The GTX9XX series are the first NVIDIA GPUs that I've used in my own PCs. Before that I've always used AMD and never had a problem with them. It was more due to curiosity that I switched to NVIDIA for this upgrade.
Completely false.
I was setting my Nividia card up with Linux and had to grab some drivers off Nvidia's website. Geforce Experience wasn't compatible with my operating system. So what happens then? Am I locked out of driver updates if I don't have a registered version of GE on my machine? Because that would be utter bullshit.
If Nvidia keeps getting hostile I am going to switch over to AMD. I wouldn't mind at all.
If Nvidia keeps getting hostile I am going to switch over to AMD. I wouldn't mind at all.
neogaffer1
Banned
wait, so you can't even download drivers through the website anymore, it has to be through geforce experience? what the shit, i've had to grab the manual driver on their website so many times when their shitty client would error out or just take hours extra for no real reason.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Glad I bought AMD this time around.
Gotta support Nvidia's competitors.
Gotta support Nvidia's competitors.
hobblygobbly
Member
Nobody wants your bloatware so now you want to force it upon them. GeForce Experience has always given me issues, I just want to download your driver and install it, there's no reason to change that and make it more frustrating, christ. I'm actually upgrading my GPU in November and may just get AMD instead.
STILLethal
Member
nvidia pls...
Pathfinder
Member
The problem is there is no benefit to consumers for them to lock drivers behind a registration wall now, when they've been free access for years prior.
No benefit at all.
Stevey
Member
Yeah there's no benefit, but what's the downside?
I'm not seeing one.
It's a total non issue
Pathfinder
Member
The downside is some people do not want to deal with GFE. It's not required to make the hardware work with the drivers or the operating system, and Nvidia is artificially making it a requirement.
Obligatory
Yeah. Nvidia basically can do whatever the fuck they want at this point. suck it up, guys.
That's the most defeatist attitude I've heard in this thread. I hope you are being sarcastic. Companies rise and fall all the time and in short spans of time. If Nvidia thinks that it can bludgeon its customers with policies they don't like then they will lose their lofty position sooner or later.
Why would I install a girlfriend experience?
Pathfinder
Member
Not if they keep on making the best cards they won't.
Empty Space
Member
Stevey
Member
So people dont want to use GFE and would rather download them from the website?
That's it?
There's bigger things to be worried about IMO.
Wowfunhappy
Member
How does this even benefit NVidia? How does forcing everyone to install the GeForce Experience allow them to make more money? I guess they get more emails in their databases, but that doesn't seem worth the price of pissing off even a small number of customers.