Wednesday, July 6th 2016
NVIDIA GeForce Experience Gets UI Update, Won't Work Without Login
NVIDIA released a major update to its GeForce Experience app, which significantly changes the user interface (UI). The new GeForce Experience 3.0 is being shipped as a public beta, and is currently not part of an NVIDIA driver installer. Its UI now has two key sections, one which deals with game setting optimization, and the other which lets users access NVIDIA GeForce features such as Ansel, GameStream, driver updates, etc. Perhaps the biggest change here is that having an online account with NVIDIA is no longer optional, if you want to use GeForce Experience.
NVIDIA uses this account to store your game settings and other preferences on the cloud, so they're portable between all your devices, and could be useful if you're a PC enthusiast that frequently changes hardware. On the flip-side, though, GeForce Experience becomes another app that dials home each time you start your PC, impacting start-up speed. The new UI does make things more organized, and labels your games much like a DRM client like Origin or Steam would. You don't need GeForce Experience to use NVIDIA graphics cards, though. The app's install is still optional, and can be unchecked in the "Custom install" screen of the GeForce driver installer.
Sources:
Tom's Hardware, NVIDIA
NVIDIA uses this account to store your game settings and other preferences on the cloud, so they're portable between all your devices, and could be useful if you're a PC enthusiast that frequently changes hardware. On the flip-side, though, GeForce Experience becomes another app that dials home each time you start your PC, impacting start-up speed. The new UI does make things more organized, and labels your games much like a DRM client like Origin or Steam would. You don't need GeForce Experience to use NVIDIA graphics cards, though. The app's install is still optional, and can be unchecked in the "Custom install" screen of the GeForce driver installer.
52 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce Experience Gets UI Update, Won't Work Without Login
Really simple and shortcut are great (game layer like steam CTRL+Z)
And a login was neeeded for it to work.
so alway sign-in to work is not a big deal
:toast::peace:
That moment you forget to uncheck the box on a driver update... worst event of the day.
Nvidia is powned by the trends of today, plain stupid! Why are all sheep running in the same direction? (VR for example, a geeky sidekick like gameboy dancing hardware...)
Geforece Experience is already full of wildgrass. The "Geforce LED" function alone uses 400 MB, that's a lot for a useless feature you show friends one night and goodbye...
I'll go create one...
I remember sometime ago they were trying to update the shadowplay functionality. I tried the beta as it was more "streamer friendly" and you could "edit" and upload to youtube within the game you were playing. Sounds like a good idea but I HATED the layout. And in order for you to do that, they keyboard shortcut was ALT+Z i think. Which if youre in WoW, that hides your UI and when youre playing an MMO like that and youre worth any salt, youre going to have a multitude of keybinds which makes trying to remap it somewhat of a hassle if not an impossibility.
But I reckon I'll fall prey to it anyway because I just ordered a SHIELD today. Lel. On that note, I haven't really looked into it, but can you use GameStream without GFE?
but seriously, why waste resources on this just to get some, not even that accurate, usage metric? why not fix bugs instead?
Kinda bummed that the FPS display doesn't work in certain new titles...
Personally, I think anyone complaining about having to log in that owns a cell phone is quite hypocritical. But that's just my opinion.
I hate that GFE game optimizations add DSR to my desktop, and that when it does, it negatively affects system performance nearly 100% across the board...
STEAM FPS display works fine on DOOM...
Here's the better question, WHY should I, in this hypothetical hell world, have to log into nvidia's servers to use the GPU I bought? What is the reasoning here? The only reason nvidia would want that is to force users to upgrade older models, which the PC community, rightfully so, is not fond of.
Also, phones do not do the same thing? Believe it or not, a phone can work without a sim card. I can boot up my note 4 with no sim card or wifi and use it to run apps from google play with no issues, unless said app is trying to connect to the internet. a phone running ASOP android doesnt even need an email to run with said SIM card.
Even apple products can be run with no internet or appleID. Getting apps can be a pain with no access to the app store, but it is doable.