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> 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 so

> 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 ago
Ehh, 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    Yep, same. I dual boot and only rarely use Windows.
  - glenneroo 6y ago
    That'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 ago
    What a coincidence. The email I used to sign up for GeForce Experience is nvidiaisshit@mydomain!
- mr_toad 6y ago
  The 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 ago
  Last 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 ago
    Yeah, sure they're large. And they're a lot smaller on Linux. But 600mb is not "multiple GBs".
    - duncanawoods 6y ago
      I say gbs because (not checked recently) they were cached so your nvidia driver folder would be 10s of GB in size. For a driver!

smabie 6y ago

Ehh, 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 ago
I 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 ago
  Yep, same. I dual boot and only rarely use Windows.
- glenneroo 6y ago
  That'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 ago
  What a coincidence. The email I used to sign up for GeForce Experience is nvidiaisshit@mydomain!
mr_toad 6y ago
The 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 ago
Last 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 ago
  Yeah, sure they're large. And they're a lot smaller on Linux. But 600mb is not "multiple GBs".
  - duncanawoods 6y ago
    I say gbs because (not checked recently) they were cached so your nvidia driver folder would be 10s of GB in size. For a driver!