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Nvidia’s finally replacing GeForce Experience with this all-in-one ‘Nvidia app’ - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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RIP Gamestream?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I never realized how stupid GeForce Experience was until I built a PC for someone and realized I'd have to explain to them that they need to register an account on a special software just to keep their GPU driver updated.

Even with the insanity of Nvidia on linux, all I have to do is sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia once and let dnf handle updates automatically.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The RTX HDR is fucking lit, especially on emulators cause reshade HDR just was, alright.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gamestream was already killed, no? I had to install Sunshine to carry on using Moonlight on my Nvidia Shield.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the info. I just got a Shield. Steam Link works alright but couldn't for the life of me configure Moonlight with GeForce experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Steam Link performance was terrible for me. Like half the frame rate and crunchy as hell. No idea why. I assume it was using CPU rather than GPU, or maybe using too much GPU...

GFE worked for a bit (until Nvidia killed it) but would often use the wrong monitor with no way to configure it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it another electron app?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

With 10x the tracking, and "AI" to scan your files to help "optimize" your experience?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Geforce Experience had a non-zero percent influence on my choice to go radeon this time around. I doubt this replacement would fare any better, by the sounds of things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's completely optional. All the real driver options are in the control panel.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given how atrocious it is to download drivers from their website...

You're mostly right but damn, their offerings aren't pretty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't used NVIDIA for drivers in years. You can use NVCleanstall to install them without all the crap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That is good knowledge

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For now they are, when they are happy with new software they will remove old panel, because otherwise they would have to keep updating two apps with same new changes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I went the other way, I do miss the control radeon had, now I have to use afterburner to do the fan control stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Using the Radeon software is such a good experience. I never had any issues with it or the driver, they are looking clean, are responsive and actually helpful.

Hope that you get a similar experience, for how expensive Nvidia is it should be mandatory to have a good software...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nvidia experience has gotten so bad that I actually download drivers manually from the site again. It should not take 3+ minutes to start a program that does virtually nothing and THEN make me login to even fucking use it - just to update the driver.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using NVCleanstall, it let's let's you configure exactly what components you want installed or not. Can even choose not to install the HDMI audio driver if you don't have a need for it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their normal installer allows the hdmi to be removed too, was so happy when I discovered that because I want my monitor to act as speakers exactly never

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, didn't know that, pretty cool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's easy to miss, the checkbox is like one shade of grey different to the things you can't deselect

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I don't even use this app on my windows install. As soon as it made me log in I just uninstalled it. Why the fuck would I need to enable data collection to tweak the video card I bought off them? It's bullshit.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This reminds me of when I used to run windows.

Linux doesnt do this shit. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No one cares

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