Holy fucking god the GeForce drivers for my new gpu are *seven hundred and twenty megabytes*
...*compressed*
I don't
I don't understand why an OPERATING SYSTEM would need to be as big as seven hundred and twenty megabytes
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Should I log in to my video card. Is that a good idea. Is that a thing it makes sense to do. Why does it want me to log in to the video card
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Can get drivers without GeForce Experience but it's how they distribute updates and they provide genuinely useful features for recording/streaming. You can get the drivers via Windows Update but they're much older versions without frequent updates for optimized game support, etc.
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Does it make sense to use their recording/streaming features over, for example, OBS?
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Their recording/streaming support is much higher quality even if you enable the hardware acceleration in OBS. It's genuinely really nice to use. A lot of people leave ShadowPlay enabled when they're not streaming because it's super low overhead + can capture last 30s of footage.
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Yeah the idea of what I'm doing on the computer being recorded on a 30sec delay is kinda scary to me lol
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I have a dedicated Windows computer for gaming and consuming TV / movies. I use a USB switch to swap mouse/keyboard between Linux and Windows machines and they each have their own monitor. It means I don't really care if NVIDIA has some serious vulnerability in ShadowPlay.
I'm a lot more concerned about games themselves doing super sketchy things while not caring one bit about security. I have more faith in NVIDIA than game developers. I'm not so sure that my faith in OBS is particularly high. I do use it for certain things but it really sucks.
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My approach ended up being that I want that stuff on a separate computer where I don't have to trust games and all the sketchy software associated with them like Discord, mods, mod managers, OBS, NVIDIA's suite of software, etc.
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