• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Was GeForce not supposed to be an all-in-one app? I thought that was the purpose.

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      7 days ago

      I’m guessing this will roll in the features of Nvidia control panel as well. so now we will basically be forced to install their tracking shit for basic feature support.

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        7 days ago

        Yep, the second paragraph of the article says that the new app will eventually replace both GeForce experience (yay) and the Nvidia control panel (boo).

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        7 days ago

        I’m running the beta of this right now. You still need NCP, because nowhere near all of the control panel options are actually in the new app. It’s just a handful of basic options.

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      7 days ago

      I bet GeForce didn’t do the data collection they want, and it was too much trouble to try and shoehorn it in, so they built a new app. I bet there’s user data collection in there related to their AI business.

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    6 days ago

    Can I not have to log in to download a bloody driver without jumping through a thousand hoops? Can I choose not to use it at all? Probably not, probably still shit.

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      6 days ago

      Yes and yes. I don’t install this shit and just install drivers directly from nvidias website without logging in.

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        6 days 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.

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          I do it every time I update. It was pretty straightforward last time.

          That’s said, I really hope this new app doesn’t change something or force me to download it to get the same functionality I have now.

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            5 days ago

            Sounds like all the reason in the world to me to start eyeing up AMD cards.

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      6 days ago

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

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        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.

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          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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            6 days 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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              5 days 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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                  5 days 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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    6 days ago

    Another shitty app to download so I can update my drivers

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    6 days ago

    Will it suck less than the current implementation of Shadowplay that detects every app under the sun as a “Game” and doesn’t actually work on my actual games anymore :')

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    7 days ago

    Does it come with linux support?

    I still wont use it if its optional but id be nice if they supported there own product on the fastest growing Gaming OS

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    6 days ago

    While this won’t affect me as I don’t currently run nvidia hardware, I am excited to see what new and interesting ways they’ll make the software suck ass.

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        6 days ago

        Sunshine is better than GFE at this point

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          5 days ago

          Besides the number of greater features that sunshine has added, are there any performance benchmarks to compare the two? Like for 4K HDR @ 120Hz in terms of latency or efficiency in the graphics capture pipelines? Always figured Nvidia could be leveraging their proprietary driver APIs more effectively given they can optimize and control the entire graphics pipeline, end to end.