Registration required for Nvidia’s latest GeForce Experience Client

Way to go NVIDIA!  I'm pretty sure this is what happens when you have a company who has run out of things to do and has no competition in the space they operate.

This article over at Digital Trends goes over the recent GFE (*not girl friend experience) update which includes a redesigned layout and forced registration.  From what I can tell you can still decide if you want to install GeForce Experience and if it is installed they are not forcing you to use it. 

HOWEVER, if you prefer to have someone else control how your games should be played and share your gaming habits with NVIDIA (likely to also include pirated games) then you'll need to register.  In a way this is good for NVIDIA since they will no longer have to rely on Steam stats to understand that people still game on 1080p even if they spent the $700 bones on a GTX 1080.

Overall, GeForce Experience 3.0 appears to focus on simplicity, providing a toolbar that includes a “Home” button for the default window when the program launches, and a “Drivers” button to grab the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver. This toolbar also shoves a “Share” button, a “Settings” button, and a “Profile” button over to the right of the client, the latter of which contains a drop-down menu for accessing the user’s account and an option to log out.

On an unrelated note I tried to install the latest GeForce driver on my test rig and discovered that it would not install.  I was running a fresh install of Windows 10 and it would fail claiming my OS wasn't supported.  Figuring they somehow are getting kickbacks from Microsoft I installed a fresh copy of Windows 10 Anniversary Edition and wouldn't you know it.  The driver installed correctly.  Seems to install the latest drivers you must also have your PC updated with the latest patches.

Grrr

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