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Nvidia is no stranger to trying to make your video games look good, but this is a different take. Nvidia’s doing software now, and its GeForce Experience wants to optimise your graphics settings.
GeForce Experience’s flagship feature is the ability to optimise visual settings for PC games with one click. If you’re not into guess-and-check futzing with anti-aliasing levels and shadow options, GeForce Experience can fetch optimal settings from the cloud and apply them for you, writing changes directly to your game’s config file.
In order to figure out what “optimised” is, games are tested by live, human players who peg appropriate benchmarks and FPS goals for optimal play. Basically, that’s a part of the game that’s a good representation of how it runs on your hardware. From there, those goals are fed into an algorithm that tests thousands of setting combinations over thousands of hardware configurations at a huge “render farm” in Moscow to figure out the best settings you can eek out of a system while still getting suitable performance.
And even if you don’t need a computer to tell you what resolution to use, GeForce Experience still has something for you; it’ll handle your driver updates. Whether you just want to keep up to date on your drivers or opt into the betas, the software will automatically let you know when a new one’s out and seamlessly download it in the background. And when it comes to drivers, things can’t be too easy.
While GeForce Experience is obviously going to be tailored to Nvidia’s hardware, this free software isn’t locked to it, though it might be questionably useful otherwise. And although you probably know how to/like to tinker with your settings, one-click optimisation could be damn handy for suckers who are getting screwed by bad out-of-the-box settings. The service is going into a closed beta today, so get in line if it sounds up your alley. If you frequent the settings panel, it’s probably not going to change your life, but you can’t argue with automatic driver updates. [Nvidia]
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link to the page:http://www.geforce.com/drivers/geforce-experience
OcUK will be doing it past the first 10,000 downloads
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18467006
i just cant the point of this apart from maybe helping console noobs cross over to PC gaming.
most games these days have in-game overriding gfx settings. IMO its all about balance and getting the best visuals at an acceptable FPS.
The point is to play the game. If this takes away the initial futzing around with the settings to make the game look optimal according to what your hardware is capable of, then it does its job well. The ability to modify the settings to such a granular level is extremely useful to have – but it should be a tweak, not a basic set up task to be able to play the game.
One of the major benefits of console gaming over PC gaming is the “plug in and play” factor. You stick the disc in the system and play. PC gaming has advantages in almost every other way, but there’s almost always an initial frustration of getting the game to look and run its best – which is really why we’re playing the game on PC instead of a console in the first place.
It’s got nothing to do with ‘n00bs’, it’s simply a matter of removing barriers to the central task at hand. You can be as technically minded as you like, at the end of the day, you buy a game to play it – not to configure it.
the thing is people prefer different things. going for a generic setting isnt always preferable.
nothing wrong with being a noob. we all were at one point. i dont use that term derogatorily.
I think aiming for the optimal max and then letting people tweak it further as necessary is more than enough ‘a point’ for this software.
optimal max is fairly fluffy phrase.
16xAA 8xAF medium shadows
8xAA 16xAF high shadows
what about detail level? what about foliage? etc etc.
do you see what i mean? everyone has their own idea of what is better and certain elements can have a massive performance hit.
snipers (or should i say pussies who hide in shadows
) might be able to play with a higher LOD as they dont fucking move. action gunners need higher FPS.
most games already assess your gpu/cpu etc and tell you to go for medium/high/ultra etc.