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  • yannigr2 - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - link

    Oh, you have to advertise Nvidia on Facebook and Twitter for the giveaways?

    Uninstalling GeForce Experience in progress...
  • close - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - link

    At least this one's not "US only" as AnandTech's giveaways.
  • BrokenCrayons - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - link

    Nvidia started adding the framework for creepy data mining into the GeForce Experience a few driver revisions ago. Since it doesn't do anything aside from pick a few display settings for you anyway, the data mining seems like too high of a price to pay for the service anyway.

    It's almost enough to make someone want to suffer with an AMD card and their anemic Linux support when they go video card shopping.
  • willis936 - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - link

    The real thing experience unlocks is shadowplay. As far as I'm aware there isn't a third party tool that does what shadowplay does. Sad.
  • BrokenCrayons - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - link

    I had to feed shadowplay to a search engine to figure out what it does, but yes I do see how getting access to that capability is a necessity for someone who wants to share what they're doing in their games. It's too bad that's wrapped up in the GeForce Experience.
  • Morawka - Wednesday, December 7, 2016 - link

    Citation needed. i'd love to see some proof of this
  • oranos - Friday, December 9, 2016 - link

    smart choice. most likely just mining data anyway. i found no real day to day use for it.
  • BrokenCrayons - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - link

    No Mans Sky fixes? Are people still playing it? Steam's reviews made it look like one of this year's most epic mega-flops and they even posted the refund policy on the game's store page for a while.
  • CMDMC12 - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - link

    There was a massive update to the game last week (the Foundation Update referred to in the notes), and it's brought a lot of players back.

    I tried it myself, but I still think it's only a $20 game ($0 due to how HG handled everything).
  • BrokenCrayons - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - link

    I haven't played around with it. The almost universally negative reviews made me shy away from messing with it. If the latest patch addresses a lot of player concerns, maybe it was just a matter of releasing the game before it was fully baked. Then again, it sounded like the developer over-hyped a lot of features and didn't have a good idea what the player community was interested in getting back. That may only have been something they could have learned after releasing the game.

    I may take a peek at it when its in the Steam sale discount pile.
  • close - Wednesday, December 7, 2016 - link

    I played the game after launch and it took ~30 minutes until I realized there's nothing more to it, that's the whole gameplay. At this point probably no update can bring me back to *that*.
  • sudhirkhanger - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - link

    What does 376.19 mean? When WHQL release is made are they also used on Linux or do Linux updates have their own release names.
  • Charlie22911 - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - link

    And still no fix for Folding@Home, 373.xx remains the latest functional driver for those who are folding against Toms Hardware.
  • Freakie - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - link

    I somehow got it to work yesterday on 375.50 drivers with my 1080, but then I tried overclocking my GPU to get some more PPD and it failed the Work Unit in F@H and I haven't been able to recreate it since. But when it was working it got ~650,000 PPD. So far the best I've been able to reliably manage on drivers that aren't 373 is 2000 PPD.

    Still fiddling with it, though.
  • Freakie - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - link

    HA! Got it to work again, though this time with these latest 376.19 drivers. Now to see if I can break it again and reproduce the fix.
  • Charlie22911 - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - link

    If you get it to work let me know! Your PPD seems low, I'm currently pulling around 800k-950k depending on WU on each of my 1080s (2114MHz watercooled); I know the overclock helps but I wouldn't think by that much...
  • Freakie - Wednesday, December 7, 2016 - link

    Bleh, it worked for 1 Work Unit and then broke again. So no dice on getting it working to a reasonable degree, sorry :( I got ~770k PPD this time though! So I got that going for me, which is nice.
  • Michael Bay - Wednesday, December 7, 2016 - link

    You do understand you`re helping to develop a white people mass murder tool, right?
  • Freakie - Wednesday, December 7, 2016 - link

    I'm sorry but... what???
  • MrSpadge - Wednesday, December 7, 2016 - link

    Who says that, Trump?
  • masouth - Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - link

    It looked like Michael Bay said it but I didn't see any explosions so that can't be right. ;)

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