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> Last time I updated my nVidia video drivers, I found I had to create an account with nVidia to get into the configuration options of the driver on my machine.
by ionised 10y ago
> Last time I updated my nVidia video drivers, I found I had to create an account with nVidia to get into the configuration options of the driver on my machine.
I see a lot of people with this confusion between the NVIDIA Control Panel and GeForce Experience.
You do not need to create an account of any kind to use the NVIDIA Driver Control Panel. You never did and hopefully you never will.
GeForce Experience on the other hand you do need an account now, but it's also completely unnecessary (and buggy) software. You don't need it at all unless for some reason you want Shadowplay (recording) or can't be bothered to set game graphics settings yourself and want GFE to 'optimise' the experience for you.
- sqldba 10y agoGFE is garbage. I have a GTX10x0 (I forget exactly which one but one of the faster ones) and it insists that the 'optimum' settings for games are wayyyyyyy lower than what I use. Like medium settings or something. I switch it to ultra and 4k and they work AOK.
- y4mi 10y agoits pretty hard to find a download for the current windows 10 drivers without the GFE though.
- badsectoracula 10y agoYou do not need to install it, go through the custom setup options and uncheck the option to install it.
- ionised 10y agoYeah this. The only things I install from the whole package are the display driver and PhysX driver. There are 5 or 6 things I uncheck that are totally unnecessary.
- frik 10y agoNow nVidia installs some tracking phone home shit, regardless of using advanced setting during setup and removing all unwanted "features". I had to remove to EXE files that were running, I found out about them with a Firewall and ProcessExplorer. Can you nVidia stop this illegal practise?
- mmebane 10y agoI haven't heard about nVidia tracking before. Are you referring to this? http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/nvidia_adds_telemetry_to_latest_drivers_heres_how_to_disable_it.html http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/nvidia_adds_telemetry_t...
- frik 10y agoYes. Even removing it with Autoruns brought it back, so I tracked down all nVidia EXE and services and removed the files physically and just kept the graphics driver, the HD audio and the physics driver. Now I have to do that everytime I update the driver, which I do of course when I want and by manually downloading from nvidia.com. Though I hope AMD gets more competitive, and I would really like to go with them next time.