Nvidia's GeForce Experience aims to streamline PC gaming

[Siberian]

http://m.cnet.com/news/nvidias-geforce-experience-aims-to-streamline-pc-gaming-[[updated]]/57557507

I need to check out the beta. This could really help the average user.

 

[KingFatty]

I wonder where the supercomputer comes in to play. Are they modeling what a game should need, like trying to speculatively predict what settings would be acceptable for an infinite number of video cards?

Why not just use a dumb database to keep track of all the factors and mix/match. I mean there are a finite number of possible combinations, you could do that with testing different setups, or even just collecting data from various testing websites, and then putting it all together in a database, instead of using a supercomputer?

Edit: wait, this article doesn't seem to mention the supercomputer, and does describe the approach I was thinking where you just test and experiment without need to simulate/predict. I read about the supercomputer somewhere else, maybe it was before they edited this article or another article entirely.

 

[nforce4max]

Helpful for some but an excuse for everyone else to be lazy slobs. Also I loathe the cloud gaming concept as it will gradually push consumers into buying in and the idea of decent game rigs will be something from only the past.

 

[IndianScout]

I tried it, it must not like SLI because it screwed up all my game settings.

worthless...

 

[Vicaar]

Er.. it is beta. Closed beta at that. Calling it 'worthless' at this stage is unfair. Maybe they haven't put in the idiot-proofing yet.

 

[3DVagabond]

I tried it, it must not like SLI because it screwed up all my game settings.

worthless...

Just curious, what settings did it give you? Higher IQ? Higher Performance?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Tried it on a friend's system with a GTX 275 and an i3. Told him to run Battlefield 3 on high. Needless to say it's unplayable with everything on high.

 

[KingFatty]

When I install Starcraft 2, it examines my computer's hardware all by itself and suggests relevant settings for my hardware.

I wonder, which would give you better settings? Letting Starcraft 2 set itself, or using this NVidia tool to see if it can get better settings?

Or, is NVidia re-inventing the wheel where they are just going to be providing a redundant service that games already provide? The game itself seems like it would always do a better job because it has "insider information" about how to optimize settings.

 

[postmortemIA]

When I install Starcraft 2, it examines my computer's hardware all by itself and suggests relevant settings for my hardware.

I wonder, which would give you better settings? Letting Starcraft 2 set itself, or using this NVidia tool to see if it can get better settings?

Or, is NVidia re-inventing the wheel where they are just going to be providing a redundant service that games already provide? The game itself seems like it would always do a better job because it has "insider information" about how to optimize settings.

Most of these game auto-settings work well only with the cards that existed when the game was launched. if you like to play some older games, like I do, they propose me nonsense settings, when PC can handle everything maxed out (not hard for 5 yrs old game)

 

[3DVagabond]

When I install Starcraft 2, it examines my computer's hardware all by itself and suggests relevant settings for my hardware.

I wonder, which would give you better settings? Letting Starcraft 2 set itself, or using this NVidia tool to see if it can get better settings?

Or, is NVidia re-inventing the wheel where they are just going to be providing a redundant service that games already provide? The game itself seems like it would always do a better job because it has "insider information" about how to optimize settings.

nVidia and the AIB's probably have a lot of support requests that are people using "wrong" settings. Once they implement a system for automatically setting up games they can simply ask, "If you allow the Geforce Experience app to adjust your settings is the problem still there?" If you say, no, then the problem's solved. It'll likely give you some pretty conservative settings. Like using Newegg's power supply calculator.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Ehhh Ive never found auto detect to work in any game, so I doubt this will be any different

Nothing like manually checking each option and finding the best visuals/performance