Why does Luke hate Geforce Experience?

[Professor Dingledore]

During the last WAN show, Luke and Linus were discussing the Nvidia partner program and Luke casually mentioned that he had misgivings about the Geforce Experience app and as such doesn't install it. I'm curious if he's addressed the reasons in another video, and if so which one... Or if someone knows his reasons. I stopped using it myself because I don't use the game overlay and I can't be bothered with the required sign in.

[Crunchy Dragon]

I'm not aware as to why he doesn't like it, I've never heard it mentioned before.

 

I like the overlay and that it automatically checks for driver updates for me.

[Mira Yurizaki]

I don't install it because it doesn't do anything beneficial for me and I'd rather not install more than I have to when it comes to system software or software packaged with system software.

 

Like I also don't install motherboard utilities on Windows. Anything they can do I can do in UEFI, and people shouldn't be constantly tweaking UEFI.

[Taja]

I think its because it FORCES you to use an account and overall is way worst than the old geforce experience.

[TheGlenlivet]

Nvidia REQUIRES you to log into their system to get the driver that way.  Then they have your email, system specs, what games you are playing etc.  It's just more data mining from 'a big evil corporation'.

You can go to their site and just get the driver you want.

[Murasaki]

When I had an nvidia card I just thought i was an unnecessary addition, never had the thing installed.

[Frankenburger]

My only guess is he doesn't like having to log in to access GFE, doesn't trust disabling the telemetry service, and doesn't use ShadowPlay or GameStream.

[Eduard the weeb]

long shot he responds, but @Slick

[Alpinochip]

he has tryed building the compensater 1.0 where he stacke 4 geforce gtx 1080 tis in top of each other and the gpus started overheating and he got crappy fps

[Alexzz_]

Just now, Alpinochip said:

he has tryed building the compensater 1.0 where he stacke 4 geforce gtx 1080 tis in top of each other and the gpus started overheating and he got crappy fps

that's not the point of this post, we are talking about Geforce expirience which is a driver update application.

[Alpinochip]

Just now, Alexzz_ said:

that's not the point of this post, we are talking about Geforce expirience which is a driver update application.

ok

[Majestic]

Because it comes with a ton of telemetry, the overlay costs you performance and you have to login to use it.

All worse than it was before.

[Alpinochip]

thats wierd that he doesnt like that they do have some great features

 

[TurbulentWinds]

It breaks literally every update for me. I have to wipe my drivers and completely remove the program and reinstall it every single time it needs an update. I hate it so much.

[Alexzz_]

1 minute ago, TurbulentWinds said:

It breaks literally every update for me. I have to wipe my drivers and completely remove the program and reinstall it every single time it needs an update. I hate it so much.

why not ditch the program and just manually download drivers from their site?

[Majestic]

1 minute ago, TurbulentWinds said:

It breaks literally every update for me. I have to wipe my drivers and completely remove the program and reinstall it every single time it needs an update. I hate it so much.

Yeah I now revert back to just installing the bare driver manually every update. And not install GFE everytime. It sucks you also have to go to task scheduler and disable the telemetry every time you install the drivers.

 

Nvidia pozzed their drivers so bad...

[Alpinochip]

1 minute ago, Majestic said:

Yeah I now revert back to just installing the bare driver manually every update. And not install GFE everytime. It sucks you also have to go to task scheduler and disable the telemetry every time you install the drivers.

 

Nvidia pozzed their drivers so bad...

why dont you just wipe the program off of your storage on every update and reinstall it

[TurbulentWinds]

On 3/20/2018 at 1:53 PM, Alexzz_ said:

why not ditch the program and just manually download drivers from their site?

I wasn't sure if you needed Experience for Shadow Play or not. Unfortunately, Shadow Play is broken for me currently so I don't use Experience anymore.

 

On 3/20/2018 at 1:55 PM, Alpinochip said:

why dont you just wipe the program off of your storage on every update and reinstall it

That's what I have to do.

[Majestic]

2 minutes ago, Alpinochip said:

why dont you just wipe the program off of your storage on every update and reinstall it

Reverting back as in going back to how you used to do it. Not reverting drivers. I don't quite understand this comment or what it's supposed to be a solution to.

 

wrong quote perhaps?

[AnalogCanavity]

It’s always worked fine for me, though I would be nice to know how prevent it from hurting your performance (like turning something in settings off)

[Alpinochip]

On 3/20/2018 at 1:57 PM, Majestic said:

Reverting back as in going back to how you used to do it. Not reverting drivers. I don't quite understand this comment or what it's supposed to be a solution to.

so you need to go and delete every single file and then once you do that go to geforces website and redownload the program

litterally even the stuff in %appdata%

[Majestic]

Just now, Alpinochip said:

so you need to go and delete every single file and then once you do that go to geforces website and redownload the program

Why would I do this? I can just update it manually. Honestly dude, I have no idea what you're on about. It's just telemetry I need to disable manually everytime because it's not a checkmark in the installation proces.

[TurbulentWinds]

1 minute ago, Alpinochip said:

so you need to go and delete every single file and then once you do that go to geforces website and redownload the program

I don't understand why this is a good solution. You shouldn't have to do something like this ever with any program.

[Alpinochip]

i know it sucks but its better than having to have a not upgraded geforce experience

ill make a yt video about this

[Majestic]

Dude you can just disable Geforce experience during installation. What the fuck are you talking about. Stop offering solutions to problems that don't exist or anyone asked for.

I am genuinly confused what spawned this or why you're bothering people with this.