After all, it’s registering for a free account and once you’re logged in you can forget all about it.įor other people though concerns about privacy and protecting your information is ringing alarm bells: your PC and any information GeForce Experience collects might now be associated with an account. Some users don’t have any problem with this new changes. More and more of these game ready drivers are becoming exclusive to GeForce Experience, and those will now require you to have an account with Nvidia. The problem is that with the new GeForce Experience update, people are finding they’re unable to install these new game ready drivers until they’ve registered and given Nvidia their details. For the sake of comparison for AMD users, the closest equivalent will be the Gaming Evolved program we’re lumped with. It’s just a program that sits on your computer and does its thing, and plenty of people really like it. Up to now, the majority of GeForce experience features (Shadowplay, driver updates, game optimisation, etc.) have been usable without needing to log into it at all.

Unlike AMD, Nvidia uses this time with the developers to help make “Game Ready Drivers.” Most of the major releases of the year will come with a driver, and often they’ll make some pretty major changes to the games to make them work as well as possible on a customer’s PC. That’s why you’ll have games with “Optimised for Nvidia” and the like in the splash screens. When a developer is working on a AAA game, a team or a person from graphics card producers Nvidia or AMD will often be embedded into the studio to help improve performance on their company’s hardware as much as possible. Here’s a quick rundown of how development on big PC games often works.

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