NVidia has a gift in their newest drivers...

[VirtualLarry]

398.36-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql

Now it prompts you, whether or not to install "GeForce Experience", or just the drivers. Yay! (Now if only they would make the telemetry client optional...)

 

[Bouowmx]

Since 2018-05-24, 51 days ago, version 397.93

 

[psolord]

Indeed its been available for a few driver releases now. It's good to have it, but we did have the custom install option so we could disable the GeForce Experience anyway.

 

[pcslookout]

I never install nvidia drivers with all the default stuff I always install them manually without the extra stuff.

 

[aigomorla]

Thats because the Geforce experience is breaking Sleep on multi display setups.

They still havent fixed the issue with it tho..
Im talking about this problem here:
https://forums.geforce.com/default/...tor-wont-sleep-windows-10-creators-update/24/

Seriously im so sick and tired with Nvidia and there choppy drivers, and lazy support.
They even gave up on SLI for the most part.

I wish AMD just had something as powerful as the 1080Ti.
I would be all over it if it was just as fast, and costed the same.

You think Intel needs to be shot down? I think Nvidia needs more of a spanking as they had a monopoly on the GPU sector for way longer then Intel has on the CPU.

 

[PlanetJosh]

I was all excited about this but then I realized I depend on GFE to some extent. I'm used to its fps counter and a few other things. So I still check it with new driver installs.

 

[JTsyo]

I was all excited about this but then I realized I depend on GFE to some extent. I'm used to its fps counter and a few other things. So I still check it with new driver installs.

Do you need GFE for G-Sync?

 

[beginner99]

398.36-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql

Now it prompts you, whether or not to install "GeForce Experience", or just the drivers. Yay! (Now if only they would make the telemetry client optional...)

Could you turn of the telemetry by simply checking where the stuff is sent and blocking those IP addresses via hosts file or a firewall?

 

[Batboy88]

I know Right? Pascal has been Adored.

 

[AntonioHG]

Do you need GFE for G-Sync?

Nah, that's in the regular Nvidia Control Panel.

 

[Aikouka]

Honestly, I don't really mind GeForce Experience... with the exception of how it will forget my login information ever so often.

Thats because the Geforce experience is breaking Sleep on multi display setups.

As an aside, I run into sleep issues whenever I install an iTunes update. After I install iTunes, it seems like I can't leave certain windows up, or the monitors will never go to sleep. The most common example is Chrome, and that's with no tabs that are playing videos open. (Video-playing tabs inhibit sleep regardless.) The problem doesn't seem to go away until I reboot.

You think Intel needs to be shot down? I think Nvidia needs more of a spanking as they had a monopoly on the GPU sector for way longer then Intel has on the CPU.

I think it's arguably what we'd call a de facto monopoly. It's not like Nvidia doesn't have competition, but their competition just... isn't worthwhile unless you're mining coins. Intel didn't receive fines for monopolistic behavior simply due to marketplace dominance. Intel used kickbacks and promotions to push OEMs to only use Intel chips, which effectively pushed AMD out of the OEM market for quite a while.

These days, you do see AMD-based laptops in regard to both CPU and GPU, but the problem is that they're still not that good. Nvidia took the right gamble and focused on power efficiency, and honestly, I'm not sure why you wouldn't do that. I mean... speaking of Intel, that's exactly what Intel did when they adapted a mobile CPU into their Core series after Pentium 4 turned into a literal hot mess, which is what we're still using today.