News Nvidia bids goodbye to GeForce Experience — Nvidia App officially replaces it in the latest driver update

[Admin]

The GeForce Experience app won't receive updates anymore.

Nvidia bids goodbye to GeForce Experience — Nvidia App officially replaces it in the latest driver update : Read more

 

[emike09]

Never liked GeForce Experience and always did a custom install to not include it. The required login was a no-go for me, mostly because it seemed like almost every driver update, I had to log in again and that was annoying, especially since it was a service that didn't justify an online login. On top of that, it was a clunky and annoying interface that I simply didn't need. I don't want my games 'auto-optimized'. I want to optimize them myself. The Nvidia Control Panel also provided all the tools I needed already, even though it was an unoptimized applications.

The Nvidia App is a step in the right direction. I still find myself going to the Nvidia Control Panel for various things because it feels easier there, but I like the features the new app brings. The biggest issue I run into now is the Nvidia Overlay often doesn't work well with many games, simply not showing up for features like RTX HDR.

On the note of HDR through, RTX Video HDR now has 4 levels of intensity, while the Control Panel was simply On/Off. A setting of 4 is a bit too much on my Samsung S95B OLED TV for most YT videos. I've set it to 3, which seems a bit stronger than the On option in the Control Panel.

 

[Giroro]

I'm not comfortable with a graphics driver utility pushing "rewards".
But I'm also not comfortable with how Nvidia's app apparently tracks an unacceptable amount of user data (complete record of installed software per user, exactly when each is used, how it performed, etc) and sends it back to Nvidia to do anything they want with.

On the other hand if I ever get falsely accused of the crime, there's some comfort knowing I can potentially sue Nvidia to get record of an ironclad alibi.
But not literally though. Because I'm pretty every time anybody sits down at a PC with an Nvidia driver installed, they count that as signing an arbitration agreement that prevents you from suing them for any reason, forever.

 

[txfeinbergs]

I have been wanting to try this but have been waiting for it to come out of Beta, only now to be waiting because of the number of bugs people are complaining about in the Nvidia forums, including that it breaks Microsoft Onedrive syncing which would be a deal killer for me.

 

[hennes]

Never liked GeForce Experience and always did a custom install to not include it. The required login was a no-go for me, mostly because it seemed like almost every driver update, I had to log in again and that was annoying, especially since it was a service that didn't justify an online login. On top of that, it was a clunky and annoying interface that I simply didn't need. I don't want my games 'auto-optimized'. I want to optimize them myself. The Nvidia Control Panel also provided all the tools I needed already, even though it was an unoptimized applications.

The Nvidia App is a step in the right direction. I still find myself going to the Nvidia Control Panel for various things because it feels easier there, but I like the features the new app brings. The biggest issue I run into now is the Nvidia Overlay often doesn't work well with many games, simply not showing up for features like RTX HDR.

On the note of HDR through, RTX Video HDR now has 4 levels of intensity, while the Control Panel was simply On/Off. A setting of 4 is a bit too much on my Samsung S95B OLED TV for most YT videos. I've set it to 3, which seems a bit stronger than the On option in the Control Panel.

^^This^^

I used to have Nvia card (780, 1080). There is a new version of gforce experience. Download?

Y -> you need to log in. F! that. I am not deinstalling all graphics drivers (+surplus), downloading a whole new package and reinstalling just to get around needing no account. No more Nvidia for me.

Ofcourse that is easy if you do not happen to need CUDA, but the effort they went though to push people away from their own brand is remarkable

 

[8086]

^^This^^

I used to have Nvia card (780, 1080). There is a new version of gforce experience. Download?

Y -> you need to log in. F! that. I am not deinstalling all graphics drivers (+surplus), downloading a whole new package and reinstalling just to get around needing no account. No more Nvidia for me.

Ofcourse that is easy if you do not happen to need CUDA, but the effort they went though to push people away from their own brand is remarkable

Maybe it's time to go AMD or Intel.

 

[Mama Changa]

I bid farewell over 4 years ago. Nvidia is just late to the party. I only download the debloated driver package with no GeFarce bloatware.

 

[Ogotai]

i just unchecked that box... no geforce experience, no log ins....

 

[erazog]

Nvidia continue to send data telemetry after installing their drivers with no opt-out so I would not consider their software privacy minded.

AMD is the only vendor to the best of my knowledge that actually lets you turn the data collection off.

At least for Windows, if on Linux then you have the open source drivers free from this.

 

[KyaraM]

That was done durjng the previous driver update, though, not the one from this week. You are a little late here...

 

[txfeinbergs]

That was done durjng the previous driver update, though, not the one from this week. You are a little late here...

No it wasn't. The last driver I downloaded (the one before this newest one), still offered Geforce Experience as the optional install. I thought that was rather weird since they had just finished the beta for it.

 

[Misgar]

I downloaded the latest NVidia Studio drivers to a couple of computers yesterday and the so-called "GeForce Experience" was still present. I couldn't find an option to download the driver on its own, so wasted several minutes downloading 700MB of unwanted dross.

 

[KyaraM]

No it wasn't. The last driver I downloaded (the one before this newest one), still offered Geforce Experience as the optional install. I thought that was rather weird since they had just finished the beta for it.

Yes it was. I downloaded the latest driver through it just yesterday. It was installed on my laptop weeks ago. Sorry you didn't get it until now, but that's how it is. I suspect they offer the update in waves, though. My desktop didn't get the offer so far.

 

[t3t4]

The Nvidia app combines everything, allowing you to launch games, update drivers, make changes to your graphics settings on a global scale or a per-app basis, tweak your system, and even redeem rewards in one place.

Oh great, yet more bloatware crap that I don't want or need! I just need the driver and then to be left the hell alone!