• priapus
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    3 months ago

    You can download the driver directly, GeForce Experience isnt necessary.

    • Ookami38
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      3 months ago

      I’ve done that before, yes, but I seem to recall it being a lot of hoops to go through. Could be misremembering it, as well though.

      • shastaxc@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Well you have to know the model of your graphics card and your operating system. If you don’t know those things, you will have to either figure it out or download the app so it can detect that information automatically.

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          3 months ago

          Yeah, that’s pretty basic. I seem to recall the option to even search by OS/GPU being fairly hidden, but again, probably just misremembering.

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            3 months ago

            It’s the massive list of GPUs and all their variants that probably made it such a memorably bad experience.

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                3 months ago

                As someone that works in tech and is in no way averse to updating my own drivers: this is why I just used the stupid app out of frustration. Even knowing my exact GPU it was still a hassle.

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                  3 months ago

                  Okay thank God I’m not insane hahah. I’m over here like, man I’m in tech support, surely I’m just not that bad with Nvidia drivers 😂😂

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                    3 months ago

                    It’s a phenomenon I seem to encounter more and more where previously inconsequential and simple to accomplish tasks have been obfuscated and enshittified just enough that its “easier” to do the shitty longer way they want to force you to use.