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

Lordgrayone · 9 Apr 2017 at 18:43

I find it good for gameplay recording / steaming amd it works great.

Disco_P said:
Without Geforce Experience you need to manually download and install drivers. Personally i prefer dojng it that way as otherwise I tend to get all the 3D vision crap installed alongside the useful bits.

Just do custom install and don't install the 3d vision stuff.

Disco_P · 9 Apr 2017 at 21:28

That is what I do.

Spacedeck · 9 Apr 2017 at 22:17

Uninstalling this seems to have freed up some much needed space on my OS partition, thanks

I wondered where all the space was being taken up.

TNA · 10 Apr 2017 at 16:15

The-Hoff said:
....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.

Don't do it!

Glanza · 10 Apr 2017 at 16:31

I use it purely for the new driver notification and shadowplay, I don't bother letting it tweak game settings as it has a habit of turning things down when they don't need to be.

demonix · 10 Apr 2017 at 17:03

Disco_P said:
I keep it up to date for shadowplay and turn everything else off. Shadowplay is completely untouchable in terms of performance hit when recording cause of NVFBC which sucks as I would prefer to just use OBS but that aint happening any time soon.

OBS and OBS Studio has NVFBC settings for video capture (the only reason why I don't use shadowplay for capture is because there's no ability to change the bitrate for video capture and it leaves massive files in its wake).

Disco_P · 10 Apr 2017 at 17:28

demonix said:
OBS and OBS Studio has NVFBC settings for video capture (the only reason why I don't use shadowplay for capture is because there's no ability to change the bitrate for video capture and it leaves massive files in its wake).

OBS has NVENC for encoding but not NVFBC for frame capture which is why shadowplay has a minimal performance hit whereas OBS has something around 20%. Shadowplay can record at 5-130Mbps configurable in the overlay.

Daytrader · 16 Apr 2017 at 00:56

You dont even need this installed for Shadowplay even, just use the recording software game dvr with windows game bar.