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NVIDIA Adds Five New Features to GeForce Experience

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Here's the problem. I uninstall my nvidia drivers before installing the new ones. Otherwise you get a bunch of driver revisions on your PC.

Read this article.

http://www.techpowerup.com/216771/n...change-to-its-driver-update-distribution.html

You will still be able to get drivers from the website, but they will be on a slower update cycle compared to the ones in the Geforce experience. For some who buy all games right when they launch, that might be a problem, if they do want to update drivers the traditional way. For people like me that only update, if the drivers adds support for a game they will play, or fixes and issue they are having, then getting drivers via the website on the slower cycle won't be bad.
 
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No thanks Nvidia! F*ck Twich, f*ck Youtube, f*ck Ego-recording, f*ck your bloathware!
I can't keep track of all the services you install without my consent!!!!
And above alle F*CK MASSIVE DRIVER UPDATES FOR SINGLE GAMES
And please let me D/L and install your drivers in English only, do not make me download useless data for multilanguage support.
Stay with good hardware, simple and solid drivers, thats the one AND ONLY reason I buy you.
you know that you consented to all of it the moment you hit "agree" on the terms of service and such? And you can choose to not install all of this as well.
 
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you know that you consented to all of it the moment you hit "agree" on the terms of service and such? And you can choose to not install all of this as well.

TPU users don't do reading, the frothing at the mouth AMD users least of all.
 
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you know that you consented to all of it the moment you hit "agree" on the terms of service and such? And you can choose to not install all of this as well.

But can you chose not to download it? I remember when a video driver file was 48MB big and that was much. Now what do we have? 200MB + ? I bet with all these "features" that I don't care about it will be more like 300MB. For me this is not really a problem, I have unlimited 1Gbps. BUT a lot of people have really bad internet and monthly download caps and they are forced to download all this stupid stuff. I have a USB stick that I got for free from my ISP that has a 5GB monthly cap, after you download 5GB the download speed turns to crawling and it's like the internet in 1998 :D Now if this was the only internet access I had I would be really angry if I had to download a 300MB file each time I have to upgrade my video driver.
 
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Except you don't need to constantly update your drivers. I went March to August with 347.88 until i installed 355.80. And all that time that "old" driver worked fantastically in every game played.
 
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Except you don't need to constantly update your drivers. I went March to August with 347.88 until i installed 355.80. And all that time that "old" driver worked fantastically in every game played.

Maybe you don't but I have to and I only need the video driver nothing else. I know this might sound crazy and all but just imagine this: out of the 7 billion people living on this planet some of them need different things than you do. I know, crazy but that's the way it is.
 

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You "have" to download the latest drivers always huh? LOL.
 

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Hey PC sales are flagging, let's annoy the crap out of the bleeding edge users!

Annoyance is subjective. 90% of users seem to prefer GFE over web downloads.

No matter how many features they integrate with Geforce experience, never going to install it. It sucks NVidia is forcing its users to install GeForce experience if they are to get latest WHQL drivers.

Why NVidia why ?

Maybe you don't but I have to and I only need the video driver nothing else. I know this might sound crazy and all but just imagine this: out of the 7 billion people living on this planet some of them need different things than you do. I know, crazy but that's the way it is.

90% of users have moved on and use GFE instead.

I have a theory on why 90% is the number nV is seeing (and no, I am not part of those 90% - I like my archive of many driver versions): people are actually upgrading their drivers now, because instead of needing to go online, filling in a form, picking the driver version you want from the list, waiting for the download to complete and then installing, they can set GFE to just download everything in background and when it's ready, they get a prompt, click a button and 5minutes later, it's all installed, without even needing a reboot!

Here's the problem. I uninstall my nvidia drivers before installing the new ones. Otherwise you get a bunch of driver revisions on your PC.

And you're that space constrained? 240GB SSDs aren't expensive anymore, so get some more space for yourself.

But can you chose not to download it? I remember when a video driver file was 48MB big and that was much. Now what do we have? 200MB + ? I bet with all these "features" that I don't care about it will be more like 300MB. For me this is not really a problem, I have unlimited 1Gbps. BUT a lot of people have really bad internet and monthly download caps and they are forced to download all this stupid stuff. I have a USB stick that I got for free from my ISP that has a 5GB monthly cap, after you download 5GB the download speed turns to crawling and it's like the internet in 1998 :D Now if this was the only internet access I had I would be really angry if I had to download a 300MB file each time I have to upgrade my video driver.

Welcome to modern driver development, where you basically have to patch game code on the fly. All those patches get bundled in the driver.

Following your comment, I went and repacked bits of the 358.50 driver installer using 7-Zip, with Ultra preset changed to use LZMA2 compression and a "solid" block size. Here's how I fared:

Full bundle (704MiB unpacked) : 289MiB (296 587KiB), near-identical to the exe self-extracting package on geforce.com (296 570KiB). Not surprising, given nV uses 7-zip to pack their drivers in the first place.
Drivers-only with PhysX (457MiB Unpacked): 235MiB (241 057 KiB). Folders included: Display.Driver, Display.Optimus (required for many laptops), Display.Update, HDAudio, PhysX, Update.core.
Drivers-only without PhysX (281MiB Unpacked): 217MiB (222 592 KiB). Folders included: Display.Driver, Display.Optimus (required for many laptops), Display.Update, HDAudio, Update.core.

I think you'll agree that the base driver is a massive piece of not very compressible binary code. Sure, you could save a bit of driver size by cutting the extras out, but in the grand scheme of things, it's a small number. Secondly, GFE has full access to all the version info, so when GFE downloads, it should be able to download only the parts that have been updated, which would save that bandwidth you so care about. As for installed size, the world hasn't given a shit since about 2005. Sorry we don't care anymore.
 
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Just incase people are confused about the new features

Nvidia said:
New Features
• Adds support for YouTube Live broadcasting that enables you to stream gameplay up to 1080p at 60 FPS.
• Improves Twitch broadcasting capabilities to 1080p at 60 FPS.
• Adds support for 4K GameStream
• Adds support for 5.1 surround Gamestream
• Adds email registration for driver downloads.
 
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Consent is relative, sometimes you have to give consent without a true feature list, like what stuff will be always running. The whole EULAs is a swindle! It starts getting like Google Android devices. Some silicon valley nerds think we all love the Social, FB, selfie, Twitch and share-your-crap-crap. Nobody works, studies, reads or is otherwise productive? You can hardly fight the waves of junk that are installed. It takes time to read and consider, time to install, time to uninstall, and last but not least time to flame afterwards, LOL.
 
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They'll probably make me install geforce experience to check out the new stuff, click on a pretty UI for a while and uninstall it after realizing it's usefulness ... again ...
 
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