Looks like Nvidia is forcing you to install Geforce Experience to get new drivers. Bad move , may even force me to the red team.
 
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/geforce-experience-gets-a-fivefold-of-new-features.html

I haven't used GFE before. What's the problem with it? Bloatware?

Hopper64
I haven't used GFE before. What's the problem with it? Bloatware?

It causes more issues then it solves. It makes using your computer harder instead of easier. It's just not your friend. It's better when you don't have it installed generally.

Bloatware and hardware sniffer built into a single utility. I've never used it and as far as I can remember the nVidia Game Ready drivers haven't been all that great anyway. I'll just wait for them on the official download site.

Sajin

Hopper64
I haven't used GFE before. What's the problem with it? Bloatware?

http://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2153182

Wow. Thanks. That's an eye opener. How we will obtain drivers then in December?

Sajin

Hopper64

Sajin

Hopper64
I haven't used GFE before. What's the problem with it? Bloatware?

http://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2153182

Wow. Thanks. That's an eye opener. How we will obtain drivers then in December?

What do you mean in December? Nvidia won't be listing their drivers directly on the nvidia website anymore in December?

Here's a section from the article.
 
Starting with a pending December update to GeForce Experience, NVIDIA will be changing the way they will distribute their driver updates. Nvidia currently posts new drivers on a regular basis to their website while also simultaneously pushing them out via GeForce Experience. Come December starting pending that update, this format will changing. GeForce Experience will be the preferred “first access” distribution mechanism for NVIDIA’s frequent driver updates. That means Nvidia will shove GeForce Experience down your throat whether you like it or not. So in short - you’ll be able to install Game Ready drivers only via GeForce Experience — and even then only after you’ve registered a verified email address with Nvidia. 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.

Great. 

if this roll's out I'm selling all my Nvidia stuff and ASUS swift and going ATI

Sigh! Let's hope there is still a way around it. Otherwise we just have to learn to be more pacient than ever... extremely hard for enthusiast users. On the other Hand these so called game ready drivers never game a significant performance boost as far as I can tell. I remember GTAV was even running slightly slower with its Game Ready driver back then. Also the recent Star Wars Battlefront Beta was running just fine on a previous driver release.

Hopper64
Yea, only through GFE per the article. Any way around this??

Unless they change how they are coded, we will be able to pull the driver from the package and will still be signed.  Regardless, a quarterly release won't be that big a deal to wait on if the rumor is to be believed.  Should it get to the point that I have to use GFE for some reason, I simply won't update until I buy another card from another manufacturer.

I learned a long time ago that newer isn't always better. How many of us are already using older drivers because they give us better performance than newer releases? I know I'm one of them so GFE won't influence my driver decisions.

I feel that AMD still has a lot of issues. It would take a lot for me to buy from them.

I didnt like GFE at first either but somehow i installed it one day and started to see around for settings like what can use mfaa or what settings it let me choose in automatic settings just to know what the game and my pc can do to it.
Also it is quite usefull to record if you dont use msi afterburner or any kind of other software.
Afterwards if I slide over the settings to see what can be on or not it is possible to just adjust it in the control panel or the inspector and in the client itself.
So what actually is bad about it when you dont have to go enter website adresses to get the file and just click it on geforce experience.

http://www.techpowerup.com/216771/nvidia-prepares-a-controversial-change-to-its-driver-update-distribution.html
 
 

NVIDIA is preparing a major change to the way it distributes driver updates. You now get new versions of NVIDIA GeForce drivers by either downloading them from the company's websites (NVIDIA.com and GeForce.com), or use GeForce Experience to download and install (update) them for you. NVIDIA plans to change this such, that the latest driver updates will be only available through GeForce Experience, while standalone installers that are downloadable from the website will slow down to a quarterly update cadence.
 

 
What is Nvidia thinking doing this. Making people use GeForce Experience, if you want to download "Game Ready" drivers. You will need to register an account on GeForce Experience to download too. When you have over 80% of the market, you don't have to care how you treat customers anymore.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

There is another article with this in the title on the forums... Possibly in the wrong forum though.