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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/16 13:21:02
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ASUS, EVGA, GIGABYTE, MSI, PNY and Zotac should all be pushing Nvidia to not go forward with this plan. GeForce Experience should be optional, not required to download latest Game Ready drivers. No reason at all to require users to enter email address, unless you have plans to sell the information you collect to 3rd parties.
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/16 13:56:24
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Why does everyone hate GFE? I have had to use it for the shadow play feature and the shield tablet streaming and i'v never had any issues with it. Please fill me in here.
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/16 14:44:27
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/16 17:01:14
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So, if someone buys a new card, will they have to load drivers or at least GFE from disc to be able to get the latest game-ready drivers?
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/16 17:58:13
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So how will I do this if a previous version of a driver works best, but will GFE only show the newest one?
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/16 18:41:25
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So how will I do this if a previous version of a driver works best, but will GFE only show the newest one?
I believe just the Game Ready drivers will require GeForce Experience to download. You can still download older drivers from Nvidia website. I can already see people repackaging the "Game Ready" drivers on 3rd party sites. This could open Nvidia customers to be infected with malware, all because Nvidia wants to data mine it users for $$$.
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/16 18:59:39
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dakon
So how will I do this if a previous version of a driver works best, but will GFE only show the newest one?
I believe just the Game Ready drivers will require GeForce Experience to download. You can still download older drivers from Nvidia website.
I can already see people repackaging the "Game Ready" drivers on 3rd party sites. This could open Nvidia customers to be infected with malware, all because Nvidia wants to data mine it users for $$$.
Well...my question is...how long will it take before a "game ready" driver is posted on Nvidia's website as a "older" driver?. I can see myself and others not buying ANY AAA games at launch because I need GFE to get the "game ready" driver. I'll just wait till the game ready driver for that particular game to be posted on their site. Wouldn't game developers be against Nvidia doing this?
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/16 19:56:17
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The only reason I have GFE installed and run sometimes as it is the only way to get special release SLI profiles (like Battlefront during the beta). I dont know why they cannot just have this stuff for download.
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/17 06:55:01
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dakon
So how will I do this if a previous version of a driver works best, but will GFE only show the newest one?
I believe just the Game Ready drivers will require GeForce Experience to download. You can still download older drivers from Nvidia website.
I can already see people repackaging the "Game Ready" drivers on 3rd party sites. This could open Nvidia customers to be infected with malware, all because Nvidia wants to data mine it users for $$$.
Well...my question is...how long will it take before a "game ready" driver is posted on Nvidia's website as a "older" driver?. I can see myself and others not buying ANY AAA games at launch because I need GFE to get the "game ready" driver. I'll just wait till the game ready driver for that particular game to be posted on their site. Wouldn't game developers be against Nvidia doing this?
This from the article >> "The drivers you can grab on GeForce.com or via Windows Update will also be limited to quarterly releases for bug fixes, new features, security updates and so on. Aside from perhaps a hotfix here and there".
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/17 06:56:23
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Never had a problem with GFE. Installed it a few times, but i've got no use for it. But if this takes place and Nvidia forces us to use GFE it's just disgusting. I'm already kinda ticked off with lying of the mem config on the 970, this would just be the cherry on top.
If only they would spend resources on fixing all driver bugs instead of these kinds of nonsence.
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/17 07:09:24
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Never had a problem with GFE. Installed it a few times, but i've got no use for it. But if this takes place and Nvidia forces us to use GFE it's just disgusting. I'm already kinda ticked off with lying of the mem config on the 970, this would just be the cherry on top.
If only they would spend resources on fixing all driver bugs instead of these kinds of nonsence.
I think they might try to convince us that using GFE will give them more bug reports the same way that Windows 10 constantly monitors everything that happens. I still call it snooping and bloatware.
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/17 13:21:07
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/17 14:00:57
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/17 15:29:55
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With 3 290x in house I was seriously considering my upgrade options and the 980ti was looking like my best choice it is as the 290x was the top GPU. FuryX just doesn't have enough RAM and the 390x doesn't represent a good enough reason to move up. I think I'll just hold out for Nvidia w/HBM or the next gen AMD HBM refresh and see where its at at that time. Nvidia will for sure back track on this, the noise is deafening.
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
2015/10/17 15:46:22
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Nvidia is the Apple of video cards with proprietary walled off ecosystem. They just keep on getting more and more proprietary and closed.
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Re: NVIDIA Prepares a Controversial Change to its Driver Update Distribution
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