News Nvidia App reaches version 1.0 milestone and exits beta — GeForce Experience may soon be deprecated

Well, was about time.

Also, what benefit does ShadowPlay bring over OBS? Can you use the CPU instead of your GPU using ShadowPlay?

I don't use AMD's own thing to record either, because of the same reason, plus it has way less options than OBS for fine tunning the recording, even using their own HW, which is kind of funny.

Anyway, I have no recent experience with nVidia recording, outside of OBS.

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"App" in the context of Windows usually means you need the M$ store and supporting services.

I very much dislike having that on my systems generally and some editions of Windows do not include it, e.g. the server variants I run on some workstations.

"No login" may hint at a reduced level of phoning home, but some need or prefer no phoning home.

I'm expecting that at least the CUDA editions will respect that need, but disappointment is a constant with IT giants, especially when it comes to data grabbing or GDPR compliance.

Does anyone have any data on this already?
 
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Well, was about time.

Also, what benefit does ShadowPlay bring over OBS? Can you use the CPU instead of your GPU using ShadowPlay?

I don't use AMD's own thing to record either, because of the same reason, plus it has way less options than OBS for fine tunning the recording, even using their own HW, which is kind of funny.

Anyway, I have no recent experience with nVidia recording, outside of OBS.

Regards.
The main advantage of ShadowPlay is that it's very easy to use to capture gameplay. If you already have OBS set up and you know how to use it, I don't think the Nvidia App will matter much.
"App" in the context of Windows usually means you need the M$ store and supporting services.

I very much dislike having that on my systems generally and some editions of Windows do not include it, e.g. the server variants I run on some workstations.

"No login" may hint at a reduced level of phoning home, but some need or prefer no phoning home.

I'm expecting that at least the CUDA editions at least will respect that need, but disappointment is a constant with IT giants, especially when it comes to data grabbing or GDPR compliance.

Does anyone have any data on this already?
The Nvidia App is not an MS Store application. It's a standalone thing. It also installs very fast, I can confirm. But as far as phoning home or data mining? I have no idea.