Nvidia plans to lock Game Ready drivers behind GeForce Experience registration

Geeman1979 · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:25

LoadsaMoney said:
Yeah look at the 970 fiasco, those cards were going back in their thousands with extra cash for their 980s, do you really think having to give them a piddly email address to get their drivers now is gona put anyone off

Agreed ^

Look at the Fury X Pump/Coil Whine EEEEEE! fiasco and folk still went back for more.

LoadsaMoney · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:28

Yup, i went back for more, then gave up and got cheaper cards, not dearer ones

Geeman1979 · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:30

LoadsaMoney said:
Yup, i went back for more, then gave up and got cheaper cards, not dearer ones

And less performance, although a small price to pay rather than the Whine EEEEE! ****

LoadsaMoney · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:31

Geeman1979 said:
And less performance, although a small price to pay than the Whine EEEEE! ****

IndEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEd

Silent_Scone · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:38

At first I felt the general tone of dismay felt by others, but in retrospect I can't see this being that big of a problem. Certainly beats not having any decent incremental driver updates. Game Ready Drivers seem to be working pretty well so far, to the extent I don't think people honestly appreciate it come a point as you don't normally get to see the performance distinction from the previous build. I've already given my email as I'm signed up for the free game I was given not long ago, along with the login on the message boards.

thebennyboy · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:38

What next? AMD making all BETA drivers only available through the Gaming Evolved client? Please don't ever do that to us AMD! Bad move from Nvidia.

fs123 · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:39

Geeman1979 said:
Agreed ^

Look at the Fury X Pump/Coil Whine EEEEEE! fiasco and folk still went back for more.

A perceived pump whine issue is not the same as 4GB not being 4GB as advertised

At least AMD acknowledged and rectified the problem. Can't see where Nvidia did anything to help the 3.5GB complaints.

LoadsaMoney · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:40

thebennyboy said:
What next? AMD making all BETA drivers only available through the Gaming Evolved client? Please don't ever do that to us AMD! Bad move from Nvidia.

That would cause uproar, even from the Green camp.

Geeman1979 · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:41

Oh No.... This is the deciding factor on never buying Nvidia again.

Nope

humbug · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:44

fs123 said:
A perceived pump whine issue is not the same as 4GB not being 4GB as advertised At least AMD acknowledged and rectified the problem. Can't see where Nvidia did anything to help the 3.5GB complaints.

No, instead they used it as a marketing ploy "we invented a new Memory architecture

" aren't we brilliant! and left it at that no doubt knowing their loyal army would peddle that line for them.

LegendaryDread · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:48

This is an outrage.

As we all know, the primary users of GeForce Experience are low-end users;

i) those with an interest in recording gameplay and
ii) those wanting to receive the latest SLI profiles for their multi-GPU systems

These poor fools simply can't fathom the concept of email, let alone entering one into a text box.

I'm never buying Nvidia again.

Geeman1979 · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:49

humbug said:
No, instead they used it as a marketing ploy "we invented a new Memory architecture " aren't we brilliant! and left it at that no doubt knowing their loyal army would peddle that line for them.

And you went out and bought one and love it to bits.

That's why Nvidia keep on trucking

LoadsaMoney · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:50

humbug said:
No, instead they used it as a marketing ploy "we invented a new Memory architecture " aren't we brilliant! and left it at that no doubt knowing their loyal army would peddle that line for them.

They havn't got that many owners, were more like a small group

humbug · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:51

Geeman1979 said:
And you went out and bought one and love it to bits.

That's why Nvidia keep on trucking

I'm just as happy to buy AMD, i buy what I want, i'm the leader, the godfather in my own camp

Silent_Scone · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:54

LegendaryDread said:
This is an outrage.

As we all know, the primary users of GeForce Experience are low-end users;

i) those with an interest in recording gameplay and
ii) those wanting to receive the latest SLI profiles for their multi-GPU systems

These poor fools simply can't fathom the concept of email, let alone entering one into a text box.

I'm never buying Nvidia again.

How is streaming a hallmark of a 'low end' user ? What a ridiculous thing to say lol.

Geeman1979 · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:54

humbug said:
I'm just as happy to buy AMD, i buy what i want, i'm the leader, the godfarther in my own camp

Likewise! I run both vendors in a number of machines.

As a few of us do.

LegendaryDread · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:57

Silent_Scone said:
How is streaming a hallmark of a 'low end' user ? What a ridiculous thing to say lol.

I think your sarcasm detector is malfunctioning.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:58

I just hope it does not mean at some point we start getting expedited access paid subscription drivers from both companies.

Silent_Scone · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:59

LegendaryDread said:
I think your sarcasm detector is malfunctioning.

Phew, I did wonder

humbug · 15 Oct 2015 at 16:02

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I just hope it does not mean at some point we start getting expedited access paid subscription drivers from both companies.

Paid subscription drivers?