Improve GeForce GTX series performance with a handy tweak
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Licaon
First of all, the user is this: https://www.reddit.com/user/lhikary
the Reddit thread is called PCMasterRace: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/
On topic, I always put all the (growing number!!!) nVidia services on Disable except "nVidia Display Driver" which is on Manual so it gets started if needed (and sometimes in starts but it does not hurt performance or anything), and I do not have any issue at all.
Regarding GFE I kinda skip it lately, it was the last straw when it did not detect neither the Steam nor the boxed version of The Witcher 2 that I had installed, so much for that.
TheSarge
Yeah, I used to have the whole budle of programs (including the streaming service) installed because I thought that having GFE automatically checking for driver updates was cool, and I suppose in retrospect i was just too lazy to uninstall the rest of the crap.
I remember when a driver download from Nvidia was just that: Just a driver, nothing else. Nvidia just couldn't resist the urge to turn that download into bloatware could they? Oh software developers, you just can't resist the urge to do things you are not good at. I suppose I should be grateful that our Nvidia overlords allow you to deselect the stuff you don't want.
Anyways, the last time I re-installed Windows I said "no" to everything but the display driver. I don't need 3D glasses or a streaming service or a game settings "optimizer" or any of the other crap that Nvidia insists on bundling with the driver.
Denial
Geforce Experience adds a ton of useful features for a lot of people with little to no impact on system performance. In total it probably takes up 30-40 megs, literally nothing. You can turn it off during install. It's a value-add that is made accessible via the driver. I doubt 1/10th of the number of people would even know about it, without it being included. It's seriously a non-issue.
rl66
about the "zero effect" "placebo" etc etc
it's true and not true at the same time
HTPC Apu + 4gig ddr3 + 750Ti without there is a nice gain in most of the case
on my workstation dual Xeon + 64gig DDR3 ECC + Quadro 5000 + tesla with or without it's the same (btw used the same driver as in the htpc but mod to run quadro... and no i will not put the 750ti to post real benchmark...)
so i guess that it depend on ressource used... shadowplay and GExp stay in background so it consume a few, that could cripple some PC rendering enough to have a difference with and without.
anyway as twich and raptor(amd evolve) both shadowplay and GExp are useless so why keep them 🙂 ???
Robbo9999
This had no effect on game benchmarks or synthetic benchmarks for me: 3DMark11, Firestrike, Sky Diver, Batman Arkham Origins, F1 2012, Bioshock Infinite, Metro Last Light, Tomb Raider. Maybe it just has an effect if you have a CPU that is weak or doesn't have many threads?
Inquisitor
^THIS!^
How do people get the updated SLI profiles if they're only released through GFE or does everyone just wait for the updated profiles when the next driver gets released?
makaveli316
I never install this crap, i always uncheck it.
Agent-A01
You do not
TheDo114
I try it yesterday and suddendly my games started crashing (LoL, GW2). Re-enabled the service and everything was back to normal.
Hughesy
Pretty sure this has been said but disabling this doesn't stop Shadowplay from working at all.
Chaython
thought this was common knowledge, remove geforce experience all together it will save you 200mb ram and a bunch of other resources.
also in Nvidia control panel, if you only have one display turn off multi display performance mode for single display performance mode. Otherwise sometimes generally after the driver crashes it will see the display twice and you performance will dump
CK the Greek
Also,I want to have the option GFE gives me to tweak gpu's led brightness..(50% is my taste,at default 100% is way too much)
I will try something now, I will keep this service stopped and see if any new upcoming game profile will be added,this way I will know for sure that it can be stay stopped without any problems. (I don't use Shadowplay so I don't know/care if it's required)
tsunami231
Good to know i guess if i ever care to put the bloated junk called GFE on my pc again
Spets
Hasn't affected my benchmarks.
IcE
I get the feeling this isn't a "tweak" so much as someone who had their system configured incorrectly. Nothing to see for most people.
Halfmead
If this works as a tweak for some, it'll probably be due to low-end system / bad settings in some way.
For me there is 0 (Zero) difference in having those services running or stopped.
I use Experience for Shadowplay, as it is a very nice (free) recording tool with almost no performance hit, and not using it would force me to buy another recording tool.
That being said, if you do not use Shadowplay or streaming, surely you should not even install experience. 'Optimize' tool is fluff at best.
I think where most ppl will gain is googling some windows optimize guides and such, and make the proper changes for their system.
Corrupt^
Perhaps that's actually related to a bug. I'm not having FPS issues (or more like stuttering rather then FPS) with an older installation of GFE.
One of the newer versions however would constantly cause spam in the Windows Error Logs and it was related to this service.
rta
I have an Nvidia Shield tab showing up on my porch on Friday...soooo...yeah.
BubbaBobBob
GeForce Experience is the real problem
Actually the problem was (is) with Nvidia GeForce Experience. That is what controls the streaming with Nvidia cards.
The last new version that came out (2.4.1.21) started the problem.
When I noticed it I went back to the last version and the CPU usage dropped to none.
I did finally go into services, as I had ever since GeForce came out, and disable streaming, just to use the newer version.
I have GTX680 in SLI and the drain was at the CPU...
Mineria
I have noticed that is spams the log at boot, probably because the service needs to be delayed to give the network connection a chance to get established.
Never seen slowdowns cause of GFE though, neither any stuttering, except when I try to record Rocksmith 2014 via Shadowplay, so I skipped installing GFE all together, only used Shadowplay anyway.
