Before I install Geforce Experience for the first time....

[The-Hoff]

....is it really as bad as everyone says? Everyone says it is bloatware, and regarding optimising my games and downloading the latest drivers, I can do that myself thank you very much.
I have purchased a 1080ti and I have a redeem code for Wildlands but I have to install GE to receive the code. Is it really worth the hassle of GE just to have this free game? I don't want GE to cripple my PC just for one game.
Basically, I don't require any hand holding features of GE and I definitely don't want any kind of software slowing down my PC. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

 

[The-Hoff]

I've not bothered with it since 3.0 - the interface went from something relatively well designed (ish) to something that looked like it was out of the 80s and I started getting issues with the overlay stuff causing random input latency, etc. in games - not tried more recent versions to see if they fixed that.

Damn, not good. Can I just install, redeem my game and then disable overlay and all game optimisation stuff?