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Yay or nay for GeForce Experience and AMD Gaming Evolved?
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Yay or nay for GeForce Experience and AMD Gaming Evolved?
I personally don't at all, though I did for GTA V and it somehow gave me a miraculous performance increase despite using the same settings I had set for myself as far as I could see. That's the only time I've really seen a benefit to it though, it tends to turn on stuff like VSync and Anti-Aliasing that I dont personally see the need for.
No. GeForce Experience doesn't work with my card, and Raptr doesn't properly support GOG, and the games it did support didn't seem to make much of a difference when it did optimize them.
No. I think some of the fun is in tweaking the settings of the game to find the right balance of performance and I always found on GeForce Experience that the settings were never good for my machine. The settings were either too high and my FPS struggled or it was too low and I weren't getting the best visuals I could.
Not for me. I try to find the best balance between image quality and performance based on what I prefer.
That said, I do understand why these "auto-optimised" stuff is here though. There's lots of people who wouldn't want do deal with graphics settings and for those looking to buy a SFF PC as a game console, they also probably want the convenience.
just stick everything on high see if it works if not the game normally does it for you and you tweak from there ..
I manually configure at first and then see if geforce experience puts in higher settings or not, that's all I really use it for rather than auto configure.
Possibly would for some games.. but anything modded, like skyrim, and it becomes utterly useless. In fact worse that useless, they become detrimental, nagging about having an un-optimised game in their library which should they optimise it, completely ruins the fps by enabling settings that most definitely need to be off for mods like ENB. Instead of wasting money on such 'services' they should spend the money elsewhere, marketing, R&D, subsidies.. Anything else really.
Yes. I am lazy.
I haven't used it myself, although I may give it a go this weekend and see what happens.
I always kinda felt I should know what all the stuff is in the settings and understand how to set it up myself... I'm learning slowly!
Tried it (Geforce Experience, that is) for fun, but when it "optimized" CS:GO to the point where my fps were close to halved I had enough. For some storyheavy single-player game I just might try it out again, though.
Yes, and yet No.
I have five games currently showing within GFE, three of which are fully optimized.
The other two, including DA:Inquisition, I have dropped the Post Processing and Shadow Quality down a notch. Still looks great, without melting my GPU.....
I usually set everything to maximum and if the average FPS < 60, then I'll see what GeForce Experience suggests and then if things are still too sluggish I'll start tinkering myself. I usually start with AA. GeForce Experience recommended 8x AA in one of my recent titles, but I still had to drop it to 4x, so that when things got hectic, game play remained smooth.
No need as a 290 @ 1440p seems to do fine running games maxed out.
never, i like to choose what to compromise to get it running on my particular hardware e.g. 144hz monitor
I usually turn everything to the top and if it doesn't work see what raptr thinks and probably tweak a little from there.
I mix and match - Generally start with the AMD settings and adjust from there based on the game.
For eg, for Racing, FPS and such smooth fps are king but for RPG's and Strategy games I'd rather have the extra quality as long as the game's not a slideshow.
Had GTAV running great. Geforce Experience told me I had my settings all wrong after the GTA Driver came out. Clicked to optimise and my framerates went totally awful. Set everything back to my own settings and it looked better and ran smoother. Generally tend to set my own settings for games, everyone has their own preferences over visuals vs smoothness and such.
And this demonstrates the whole issue with auto-optimise. For my I had the complete opposite result with GTA V as I mentioned on the last page, it varies so wildy by configuration that its just impossible to really form an overall opinion on it. Personally I have a pretty good idea what I'm doing with manual settings even if I sometimes have to look up definitions so I just stick with that, holding auto-optimise as a last resort to see if it manages to do anything I didn't as it did with GTA V.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meowdance
used to on my 1080p screen and amd hd7970 but just upgraded to gtx980 and a 3440x1440 screen and geforce experience doesn't set stuff to 21:9 so I do it manually now.
I've found it helpful to get ballpark estimations on what sort of settings could work, but i've never yet just hit optimise and run with it because they tend to be overly conservative settings in my opinion (Raptr in my case).
QOTW: Are you a noob?
Never. Auto-optimizing kills the fun in tweaking the game to find the limits of your PC. Also it turns on some stuff, like Anti-Aliasing, that you don't need if you have an older PC.
I sometimes use it as a frame of reference if i am having a TON of trouble with game settings hitting 60+ frames. I can't stand to even dip to 58 FPS. That said I rarely have that much trouble so it is very rare that I use the Geforce Experience. Mostly, as I run SLI and I personally find that GE does not account for a second card very well, they aim way to low on filtering settings. Where it is useful is I find some settings are not available or at the least clear in the in game video settings. I see what I am looking for in GE then I can go dig through the config settings manually in WordPad and set it myself.
I tend to do my own settings after nvidia optimizes I go in with my own settings to get the very max out of my GPU I aim to stay 45FPS+ for every title
I always set everything manually. I've tried Gaming Evolved though (since it was automatically installed with a driver update without ever being asked) and it was more annoying than helpful. Plus it ruined the settings of a few games to the point where I had fluctuating 30fps when it was at solid 60fps (VSync) before. Looked prettier, ran like dog excrement.
PS: For all the GTA V players.. If your game randomly has low framerates around 30-40 when it used to be (a lot) higher, just minimise the game (ALT+TAB out since the windows key is disabled) and bring it back up.. viola.. solid 60fps (or whatever you normally have) again. No idea what this bug is about but this workaround has always helped so far. Works in GTA Online too.. just don't keep it minimised for more than a couple seconds.
I tend to put all the settings up to max, apart from AA, Anistropic filtering which I set to about half, any more I don't see the point.
I know very well that min/recommended specs mean bupkis, I'm now running witcher 3, 1.03 patch on mostly medium settings, hairworks on, some post processing off (DoF, Vignetting, motion blur are off), everything in my computer is below minimum specs for witcher 3, so anyone care to explain why its running it without crashing atall and its mostly silky smooth gameplay?
so why would I trust an auto-optimizer to set the settings, when NVidia don't even know what my computer can run. and in what settings?
just checked, and theres about half the games it wants to put the settings down. they run fine as they are.
so no, im not even going to load it up anymore, its useless for me.
i try everything high on counter strike source....and it started to lag like hell @.@
I use raprt to auto calibrate my games and it seems to do a good job but I always like to try and push the settings a little higher.
Yup, GeForce experience. It does a good job of configuring games, most of the time.
I tend not to. GeForce Experience wants me to run Cities: Skylines on the lowest settings for some reason... on a GTX 970 which runs quite happily at the highest settings. :\
It loves a game's HDR setting too, and HDR makes my eyes bleed.
I just use it to notify me of driver updates.
I've found that Geforce Experience MASSIVELY overestimates the capabilities of my 770 in newer titles, so I've stopped using it for them. It seems to target image quality over smoothness, happily settling for settings that result in ~30-40fps, whereas I'd prefer it to target >60 to achieve a locked 60 with V-Sync.
No, chance. I have to say that I'm sad and that I like the tweaking aspect of games, trying to eek out as much performance as possible with the same perceptible visual fidelity. Its nice to learn about all the ins and out of the settings and ini files. Yes, I am a blast at parties :)
I only ever used it in Raptr cos it gave you some reward points for it but I usually forgot it was there. Now back on team green and not used GeForce Exp yet but If I was having trouble getting the balance I was after I would probably let it have a go.
Yeh this is one reason why I don't use these programs either. My target is 55-60fps minimum, with anything of 60fps and above being acceptable for normal framerate. These optimization programs seem to think that we'll all be happy with a console like framerate. I might actually give them a shot if they had a target framerate option (or at least the Amd/Raptr thing) to use that as a base, then tweak settings to my liking from there.Quote:
Originally Posted by gingerninja7
I use a R9 270x which is overclocked to the hilt and Raptr fails to acknowledge the extra horsepower. I also use Radeon Pro for SMAA injection and disable MSAA in my games. Using the auto optimization can work well for a standard configuration for users that don't like to tinker but for enthusiasts they fail to make any sense.
Never. In fact I don't install Geforce Experience or any of the other junk Nvidia want's us to install. I download the latest driver, select custom install and just install the gpu and physx drivers.
I didn't used to, but having recently upgraded to a GTX 970 I've been giving it a go. Sometimes it works well, other times not. I've often found I've had to knock settings down a notch or two from the GeForce Experience's optimised settings - but I largely suspect that this is because my CPU is starting to become a bit of a bottleneck.
No the geforce experience optimization thing really sucks. For example on GTA V it recommends me to enable all of the advanced settings (aka the fps killers) and run gta v at 30fps. Nooo thanks
In GFE, click the little wrench under a game's settings list. You can pick whether to use settings optimized for performance, or looks, or somewhere in between.Quote:
Originally Posted by Primey0
hell no
I use it to get a rough idea, and then turn of all post processing effects as they don't give as big a benefit as the extra FPS from having it off.
I generally slide the slider towards performance as well, as games look good enough on medium @ 1440P. Just enjoy the smoothness.
Used GeForce Experience, but eventually removed due to the massive resource drain on PC start-up (background service)
Lately I start playing a game at the default settings on install, after playing for a while I'll use the GeForce experience optimised settings and then tweak ithem if I feel that I am not getting a high enough frame rate.
it works fine on my system.. but figure out ac unity..
Never used it, because it installs a background service and has processes running even when inactive. I hate stuff like that and in any case I'm perfectly happy to tweak game settings on my own, so I uninstalled it immediately. Had it actually been benign and let me use it only when I wanted to I'd have kept it and at least given it a whirl, but I consider programs like that as somewhat akin to malware.
Just remove it from start up folder and you can just use it when you want to.Quote:
Originally Posted by jefCon
It is what I do too, and I'm happy about it .... just play, and enjoy the game....lolQuote:
Originally Posted by aidanjt
After reading this thread I thought I'd try NGFE to see what all the fuss is about, then this happened;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...D.jpg~original
BSODs every time I launch NGFE.
So to answer the QOTW; no, I don't use auto-optimise...
Wow CPUs and the amount of ram is so much and so fast programs like these do nothing, maybe you have a wooden pc?Quote:
Originally Posted by Agrippa
Only to get the auto-optimise Raptr points, then I undo the optimisations as they're wrong. (Raptr usually thinks my hardware is much weaker than it actually is.)
I tend to agree with you there. I can run GTA5 higher than raptr recommends and it still works fine.
I do. GeForce Experience works very well and saves a lot of hassle.
I optimise, then turn it down for extra FPS :)
I didn't auto-optimize for the longest time. Lately, it's been quite helpful! Nvidia actually does a really great job at optimization surprisingly.
No, won't even install the optimisation software.
Yes. I use the optimise button in Gaming Evolved to get a starting point. If it's a game that I'm going to play a lot (especially if it's online and poor frame rates are going to get me killed) then I'll fine tune it afterwards.
However on many of the games that I play GE just sets everything to max anyway - which is down to the healthy combination of an R9 285 and older games...
no I do not - although I do usually check and use as a cross reference when doing my own settings
i do find some eye candy in some titles just unnecessary and too much of a performance hog when I consider it will not alter my gaming experience
my games are either modded and have certain requirements (eg. disabling in game and GPU AA/AF as I'm using ENB) - and if the title is not modded then I go with high/ultra and work backwards from there if the fps is not at the required level (40 to 60 fps is fine for me)
I'm running 3x 1080P screens using Nvidia Surround and have had to give up using GeForce Experience since it seems to demand that I run my games at 720 instead of 1080.
Yes. I then tweak further if necessary. Its great at finding the rough area the settings should be set at so you can just spend a smaller amount of time optimising if neccesary. Its not like I have the system or the time to make it worth my while tweaking for hours.
nah aint nobody got time for bloatware
I've been giving the GeForce Experience a crack and I haven't really notest a bit difference, its just more of a convenience thing for me, I end up tweaking settings anyway when I have the time.