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Android on my TV: (keeps crashing, internet sometimes not working, sound volume usually is wrong, etc.) Nvidia GeForce Experience: I don't actually use it dail
by XCSme 6y ago
Android on my TV: (keeps crashing, internet sometimes not working, sound volume usually is wrong, etc.)
Nvidia GeForce Experience: I don't actually use it daily, because it doesn't work. I have not been able to start it for the last 6 months without getting a startup error. I contacted Nvidia support, reinstalled, downgraded, updated, problem is still there. The tray icon always shows when there's a new update, but I have to manually download it.
Google Chrome: Whenever I ALT+TAB back to Chrome it freezes for 1 second. It could be one of the extensions I use, but never found the cause. Google's own note-taking app, Google Keep, was crashing the browser on Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/docs/thread/9482426?hl=en https://support.google.com/docs/thread/9482426?hl=en
- duncanawoods 6y ago> Nvidia GeForce Experience My god what a bad experience... to update my graphics driver I am first forced to log-in which would be bad enough but then also solve two captchas and then for some reason these frequent driver updates are multiple gigabytes in size. I have no idea what the hell they are doing.
- smabie 6y agoEhh, this isn't really true. You only have to log in once (not every time) and the drivers usually clock in at around 600mb, not multiple GBs.
- pavel_lishin 6y agoI boot up my windows machine maybe once a month; I'm not sure what the login timeout is, but it seems to be at most that. I always have to log in. My password is something like "fuckyounvidiayoupieceofshit".
- duncanawoods 6y agoYep, same. I dual boot and only rarely use Windows.
- glenneroo 6y agoThat's brilliant, my username has been "fuckyouidontwanttologin" since they started requiring a login a few years ago. I had to create a separate account to post bugs in the forums though because the username was blocked. And what's the deal with the captcha during login? I sort of get why some websites require it to login, but for software installed on Windows? Do they seriously have that many bots running on Windows trying to install drivers? Is that even a thing?
- cameronh90 6y agoWhat a coincidence. The email I used to sign up for GeForce Experience is nvidiaisshit@mydomain!
- mr_toad 6y agoThe drivers are an insignificant fraction of the 600 MB. Most of the 600 MB is an entirely new copy of GFE being downloaded every single time, and most of that is the damned advertisements. Thus just makes me hate anything to do with Nvidia.
- ben-schaaf 6y agoLast time I downloaded factorio it was ~300MB. I think you'll find entire Linux distributions including mesa + Intel and AMD GPU drivers fit in 600mb of data.
- smabie 6y agoYeah, sure they're large. And they're a lot smaller on Linux. But 600mb is not "multiple GBs".
- duncanawoods 6y agoI say gbs because (not checked recently) they were cached so your nvidia driver folder would be 10s of GB in size. For a driver!
- millimeterman 6y agoI disagree about Chrome. It's absolutely not perfect, but considering its sheer complexity - browsers are probably comparable to an operating system at this point - bugs are fairly rare and performance is quite good.
- frank2 6y agoConsidering its sheer complexity its is indeed well-executed. I just wish I didn't need something that complex to read a document on the internet.
- millimeterman 6y agoI mean, modern websites do a lot more than display documents. They're certainly bloated, but they increasingly need to "do everything." Normal people do so much of their computer usage in the browser that it could probably _be_ the operating system and most people wouldn't lose any functionality (see: ChromeOS).
- minerjoe 6y agoYou don't! I switched to using links on the linux framebuffer and it rocks. Yea, there are a few sites that I have to pop over to X and Firefox, but for the vast majority of web sites that I visit, including this one, it works like a charm. And it's lighting fast. Trully stunning. 10-20ms to render on a circa 2008 thinkpad. And it's pretty good straight C, and very hackable, and only around 70,000 LOC. First thing I did was join it with guile and write a bit of glue code and I'm now adding features to it faster than you could git clone firefox, let alone begin to read its code.
- literallycancer 6y agoIf you just need the driver and don't care about the fluff, you don't need GeForce Experience AFAIK. Same for Adrenaline.
- XCSme 6y agoI actually liked their in-game overlay and ShadowPlay for making quick screen captures. Also their auto-optimization for games (set some better default game quality settings) was useful a couple of time. Also, the one click to update the drivers is better than googling for new drivers, downloading, installing.
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- bananaface 6y agoYou don't need Experience for the overlay. I only have the driver and I was playing around with it yesterday.
- XCSme 6y agoForgot to ask, maybe anyone knows a fix for the GeForce Experience error code EROR CODE: 0x0003. It just crashes on launch, even after clean reinstall and driver updates.
- glenneroo 6y agoI'm partially joking here (but not entirely) - Nvidia support will likely give you the standard Microsoft forums answer after exhausting all other copy/pasted "solutions": reinstall Windows. Also while we are dumping on Nvidia here, why does the 2080 Ti with 5 outputs only support 4 active at one time, while the 1070 Ti could use all 5 ports at once? I paid considerably more for a faster card, yet I'm more limited. Support basically told me "it's too much bandwidth". I guess I can't complain too much, at least tech support has some actual humans replying to emails (albeit the first 3 emails are copy/pasted).
- philliphaydon 6y agoI've wasted too much money on Android TV. I bought 4 little android boxes. The best of them being Mi Box S In the end I caved and bought an Apple TV 4k. I'm just sick and tired of how laggy android tv is, it's lagging on TVs that ship with it, it's laggy on little android boxes, it crashes often, if it's not crashing the apps are. Apple TV 4k is super fast and never skips a beat, never crashes, just wish it wouldn't flick to the Apple TV app when I want to go back to app screen.
- bananaface 6y agoYou don't need GeForce Experience. All the tech is in the base driver, Experience only adds social features. Uninstall it, it's just a vessel for advertising.
- noizejoy 6y agoMy DAW (digital audio workstation) seemed to have fewer audio stream dropouts once I got rid of GeForce experience.