Nvidia plans to lock Game Ready drivers behind GeForce Experience registration

humbug · 15 Oct 2015 at 17:21

Geeman1979 said:
Gives you an extra 10Fps in any given title.

Riots.

LoadsaMoney · 15 Oct 2015 at 17:26

pgi947 said:
All that's going to happen is someone will rehost the driver scooped from gfe.

This tbh.

Cosimo · 15 Oct 2015 at 17:33

Geeman1979 said:
Gives you an extra 10Fps in any given title.

Then deletes your driver if you haven't checked in for 30 days.

Mustn't give them ideas but then they've probably already looked at Office and Adobe subscriptions and you'll be renting high end graphics cards in a couple of years time.

As to this I'm not bothered and they can have one of my dodgy email addresses.

Geeman1979 · 15 Oct 2015 at 17:35

Cosimo said:
Then deletes your driver if you haven't checked in for 30 days. Mustn't give them ideas but then they've probably already looked at Office and Adobe subscriptions and you'll be renting high end graphics cards in a couple of years time.

As to this I'm not bothered and they can have one of my dodgy email addresses.

Ditto, for me it's a none issue.

Seanspeed · 15 Oct 2015 at 17:41

I still dont understand how this supposedly benefits consumers.

thebennyboy · 15 Oct 2015 at 17:57

Seanspeed said:
I still dont understand how this supposedly benefits consumers.

It doesn't. It just forces people into downloading software they may not want to use.

Minstadave · 15 Oct 2015 at 17:58

Seanspeed said:
I still dont understand how this supposedly benefits consumers.

Never been a big concern for Nvidia in the past.

ubersonic · 15 Oct 2015 at 18:23

Don't care, I'm in the 90%+ of people who use GFE, I love it, never have to check if there's a new driver available I get told when the is, no drawback to it.

Worth noting that as AMD copied GFE they too may go down this path.

Gregster · 15 Oct 2015 at 18:23

It will benefit users, as it will bring game ready drivers from day 1 of release and if you are signed up with GFE, you will get the notification straight away. No more finding the info out on a thread. Those who don't 'opt in' can still get the regular drivers as per normal but will have to manually get them (like you have always done).

Having been an SLI user for many years, GFE was fantastic, as it would automatically download SLI profiles and this was a big plus. I don't see why people are so up in arms about this??? It will be an option and not compulsory.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 15 Oct 2015 at 18:28

humbug said:
Paid subscription drivers?

Yep,so release a few functional sets a year so either company can cover their arses and if you want more up to date and optimsed drivers then you pay for a subscription.

setter · 15 Oct 2015 at 18:32

whyscotty said:
Hopefully a working one and one that doesn't break something else in the process

The day any pc component manufacturer manages that, ill eat all the hats I own, and I own quite a few.

Cambofrog · 15 Oct 2015 at 18:42

humbug said:
Sign up for their Developers Programs, they don't ________ leave you alone.

I signed up for their Developer Program but only received 4 emails since 2013.

fs123 · 15 Oct 2015 at 18:56

Gregster said:
It will benefit users, as it will bring game ready drivers from day 1 of release and if you are signed up with GFE, you will get the notification straight away. No more finding the info out on a thread. Those who don't 'opt in' can still get the regular drivers as per normal but will have to manually get them (like you have always done).

Having been an SLI user for many years, GFE was fantastic, as it would automatically download SLI profiles and this was a big plus. I don't see why people are so up in arms about this??? It will be an option and not compulsory.

I don't see why you would need so sign up with an email to get notifications in an app such as GFE. I guess the only reason they want you to sign up is so they can spam you with emails of their products or put targeted ads in there.

Gregster · 15 Oct 2015 at 18:57

fs123 said:
I don't see why you would need so sign up with an email to get notifications in an app such as GFE. I guess the only reason they want you to sign up is so they can spam you with emails of their products or put targeted ads in there.

You don't need to sign up, it is a choice and people are blindly missing this.

Randomface74 · 15 Oct 2015 at 18:59

Never had GFE actually work in Win 7, so when I installed Win 10 I didn't install GFE. IMO GFE is bloatware.

setter · 15 Oct 2015 at 19:00

Gfe already gives notifications, drivers, game profiles being examples. I find it to be a very unobtrusive program.

LoadsaMoney · 15 Oct 2015 at 19:07

Gregster said:
It will benefit users, as it will bring game ready drivers from day 1 of release and if you are signed up with GFE, you will get the notification straight away. No more finding the info out on a thread. Those who don't 'opt in' can still get the regular drivers as per normal but will have to manually get them (like you have always done).

Regular drivers will be different though by the sounds of it.

Sometime in mid-December, however, you’ll be able to install Game Ready drivers only via GeForce Experience—and even then only after you’ve registered a verified email address with Nvidia. 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.

Gregster · 15 Oct 2015 at 19:19

Man, no sleep for me tonight then

LoadsaMoney · 15 Oct 2015 at 19:23

Gregster said:
Man, no sleep for me tonight then

pastymuncher · 15 Oct 2015 at 19:24

Nvidia can go to hell. There will always be other places to get the drivers. I don't even install GeForce Experience. The only things I install are the driver itself and the physx driver. Anything else is unwanted bloatware.