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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do you mean (A) OBS with NVENC is better if I have geforce experience installed, or that (B) shadowplay is better quality than OBS+NVENC?
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I mean that ShadowPlay is still substantially faster. It doesn't matter if you aren't pushing the limits of the GPU already. I still have a 1080 Ti with a 4k monitor and streaming/recording overhead can be very noticeable. I wouldn't care nearly as much if I bought a new GPU.
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even with the replay buffer? I haven't noticed much difference (altho my set up, is, cursed)
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OBS has too much overhead for me with demanding games even with hardware encoding enabled unless I drop the game down to 1440p or 1080p from 4k.
Near gigabit upload speed doesn't do much good if the framerate has dropped from 48fps to 25fps due to streaming software overhead.
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fair, ye my set up is uh,,, I game in Windows, the frames get send from my one GTX1080 to my other GTX1080 on which I run OBS in Linux 👍
no performance penalty here
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My Linux machine will inherit the 1080 Ti when I buy a new GPU but for now it's got an old GTX 970. I used to have a 2nd GTX 970 but it literally blew up while testing how fast it could crack password hashes and made scorch marks across a motherboard.