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Earlier this year at the GeForce LAN party in Shanghai, Nvidia chief Jen-Hsun Huang revealed an interesting cloud-based service that's supposed to analyze your hardware and adjust in-game settings and display resolution for an optimized experience. It's an ambitious initiative given the number of hardware combinations that exist not only today, but tomorrow and beyond, yet Nvidia is determined to see this project through after having worked on it for more than half a decade. Gamers can get their first taste of Nvidia's new tool today by downloading the GeForce Experience beta.
There's nothing complicated about what Nvidia wants to do. Put simply, the GeForce Experience tool is about simplifying the configuration process and adjusting settings to their optimal values based on your particular setup. The hard part, obviously, is figuring out what those settings are. How does Nvidia determine what they are? It's a six step process:
The software tool takes all your hardware into consideration, and then based on what was already figured out through the 6-step process above and uploaded to the cloud, it pulls that information down and adjusts the game's settings automatically.
Once you install the software tool, you can then look at all your supported games in one place (as shown above) and click the Optimize button for whichever ones you want Nvidia to, well, optimize. The interface also provides detailed instructions on what the different settings do, so it's also a bit of a learning tool, especially for inexperienced users and/or first time PC gamers.
"GeForce Experience also delivers the latest GeForce drivers right to your desktop," Nvidia explains. "No more going to the web to search for the right driver – GeForce Experience automatically selects the right driver based on your HW config and OS, (optionally) downloads it in the background, and notifies you when it is ready to install. Optimus, SLI and game profiles are also automatically downloaded and installed to your PC, so you are always ready for the latest games."
Not only does this tool help out gamers, but it could make things easier for game developers who are forced to ship a game without knowing what hardware is on the horizon. For example, a game bought today won't necessarily pick out the best settings for a graphics card that you purchase next year or in two years based on its own analysis. The Nvidia Experience tool will, at least in theory.
If you want in on the beta, you'll have to act fast. It's limited to 10,000 users, with the primary goal of getting user feedback before polishing this into a final product. As it stands, GeForce Experience supports over 30 games (Batman: Arkham City, Battlefield 3, Borderlands, Crysis 2, Dirt 3, Just Cause 2) and both notebook and desktop GPUs based on Fermi and Kepler.
The download link is now live. Remember, this is a closed beta limited to 10,000 users, so if you're interested, you'll want to pounce on this sooner rather than later.
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jstein076
December 07, 2012 at 8:24am
Not really. This application optimizes your game settings to improve Framerates and give the best game experience. It also adds settings that are not even available in game. Game Booster just closes applications on your computer to boost performance. In my opinion Nvidia's application is way better and provides alot more performance.
jstein076
December 07, 2012 at 8:25am
If you use Nvidia graphics cards i would give it a shot. I use dual GTX 680's and it improved the performance of those cards. I can only imagine what it does for more mid-level cards. It's worth the 5 minutes to download and install.
beta212
December 06, 2012 at 2:33pm
The heck, I think this is going to be a flop like physx was(no offense meant), why do we need this to automatically lower our settings? I can lower it myself quite well.
jstein076
December 07, 2012 at 8:33am
Just like i'm telling everyone on here. Give it a try, i noticed that it changed settings that the games didnt even know were there. I recieved around a 15% boost in performance on all my games without any major graphical changes. The worst you can do is uninstall and be back where you started.
Hilarity
December 06, 2012 at 1:11pm
Fuck this cloud shit. Hardcore PC gamers know exactly what to optimize. As if I want Nvidia to reach into the guts of my PC and see whats there. Its amazing how developers constantly want to spastic up the PC gamer.
jstein076
December 07, 2012 at 8:31am
Honestly i would give this a shot. The program enabled graphics settings that some of the games didnt even have in their personal application. The worst you could do is uninstall. It improved my performance on two 680's by around 15%. Definitely give it a go...
guppieman
December 06, 2012 at 12:20pm
Might seem like a foolish question but one can hope, Will this work for Radeon graphics cards since it is for game settings optimization?
guppieman
December 06, 2012 at 12:25pm
Nevermind. Just downloaded it, tried to install, and graphics driver not supported. Bummer, I kinda envy you now GeForce users. Here's hoping to AMD releasing something similar.
Techrocket9
December 06, 2012 at 12:07pm
I can't get the CAPTCHA to load. I tried Chrome, FF, and IE 10.
Is anyone else having problems with the CAPTCHA?
Paul_Lilly
December 06, 2012 at 11:48am
Hey everyone, the download link for the GeForce Experience closed beta is now live. Remember, it's limited to 10,000 users, so if you're interested in participating, shove aside that TPS report and go, go, go!
mls067
December 06, 2012 at 10:49am
After using this, I can see that this would be a great tool for a new gamer or those that don't really understand the settings in the game. It only picked up 5 of the 35 games I have installed on my PC. I checked the directories that the program was scanning and it is pointing to the correct folders..weird maybe the database does not have those particular games in it..also, for some reason it cannot optimism my Planetside 2 game ( even though all the settings do match) I was simply trying the programs functionality, it "optimized" the other 4 games though.
Paul_Lilly
December 06, 2012 at 10:48am
There's no download link/beta application just yet that I'm aware of, but we'll update this article once there is. In the meantime, anyone interested can refresh the GeForce Experience Developer page every so often to see if it appears there:
mls067
December 06, 2012 at 10:29am
here's a link to download, but I couldn't find it on nvidia's site
http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/nvidia_geforce_experience_download.html
RipperXT
December 06, 2012 at 10:24am
How does one sign up for this beta? Did I miss that in the article?
