Hahahahahahaha.
Nothing. I'm just stating my opinion, and I'm not delusional enough to believe that neogaf has any power over how GPU market works. Of course if you believe I'm not supposed to share my comment on how this thing is going, then more power to you.
You guys will buy nvidia card anyway.. what's the issue here.
you know you won't.
It installs like 10 background processes/services that are always running, consuming memory and potentially slowing boot time and other tasks, all of which are completely unnecessary unless you use Shield Streaming or Shadowplay. There was a kerfuffle a few months back that the Streamer process was appreciably reducing frame rates even when not in use. The tent-pole feature of the whole software package (the recommended auto-application of settings/configs per game) are often completely nonsensical and sub-optimal. This isn't even getting into general software glitches, like it's auto updater getting stuck in a loop, crashes, or failures installing drivers.
I don't like this because about 40% of the time I install a new driver, Geforce experience doesn't work. I actually need to download the drivers through their website.
This is my exact experience with it too. I always need to do it manually, because it doesn't work through GFE.Yep, only for me it's 100% of the time. I just get an "nvidia servers cannot be reached. Try again later" error so I have to go to the website to grab the drivers. Fantastic.
Don't you register your card for warranty to the manufacturer and not nvidia?
Traditionally, I'd agree, but I've been pretty impressed with AMD's drivers for the last year and a half, since the Omega thing. I thought it was just a fancy word rebranding, but I have yet to have a problem with them and they do fix issues. Also, everything I've used with Mantle was pretty impressive how it helped to defeat the bottle-neck on my old system.What's really sad is that (at least in my experience), finding GF drivers from alternative sources will still be better support than AMD drivers.
nvidia said:The drivers you can grab on GeForce.com or via Windows Update will be limited to quarterly releases for bug fixes, new features, security updates and so on.
I cannot be the only one who is unable to update the drivers via GeForce Experience due to errors. It always bombs out so I have no choice but to manually download them from the nVidia site (which I have no issue doing and would prefer to do).
Sort out your bloody software before forcing this nonsense on owners of your gpus.
I cannot be the only one who is unable to update the drivers via GeForce Experience due to errors. It always bombs out so I have no choice but to manually download them from the nVidia site (which I have no issue doing and would prefer to do).
Sort out your bloody software before forcing this nonsense on owners of your gpus.
Doesn't even take a high school. Or even elementary.Nah, i'm the same, tried it once and it fucked over the whole thing, and from then on i went back to use the manual install again.
They make the manual installation sound like some sort of esoteric process... you just go on the site, select you card, download, run the installer and click "next" until it's done.
Doesn't take a PHD.
I haven't used game specific drivers before, so unless they make games god tier optimized, I don't care much for them.
I don't get it. Are there drivers that are not "game ready"? I only get drivers by googling "nvidia drivers" and end up to the latest game ready driver. So i DL that. I thought these were the default ones... and i update them everytime a new version appears. Last one is a Star Wars Battlefront game ready driver. I don't even have that game... is it going to affect other games negatively?
Oh and i don't even have Nvidia experience installed.
Ok but the fixes of previous games are included in the newer game ready releases?The bigger WHQL packages are not released that often (but offer more new stuff and general optimization) while gameready drivers come along with big game releases and include sli profiles and smaller fixes.