Nvidia is updating its GeForce Experience utility with a set of new features that will excite all those who are eagerly awaiting the standardization of 4K videogames. With the SHIELD Android TV capable of decoding 4K video content, NVIDA is now giving GameStream the ability to encode video at that resolution, allowing for GameStream remote gaming at full native resolution for 4K TVs.
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We’re told that the email lists will be used to keep users up-to-date on product news, driver updates, contests, and giveaways. All of the other cards from both AMD and NVIDIA see performance increases with the latest drivers installed, too. And soon, there’ll be another on – if you use Nvidia hardware.
YouTube recently launched YouTube Gaming, a new game-focused portal for YouTube content, and the ability to live stream to YouTube and YouTube Gaming. As of December though, regular driver updates will only be made available via GeForce Experience first, and only when you’ve signed up with an email address.
If you’re not familiar with GeForce Experience, it’s the go-to application for enhancing your GeForce GTX gaming. Clearly this will make the visual presentation of your games on your television more impressive than ever and NVIDIA has added support for 5.1 channel surround sound pass through.
NVIDIA GeForce Hotfix driver 358.59 Download – 10/14/2015 01:04 PMNvidai issued a hotfix driver specific for GSYNC owners. You’ll still be able to download larger driver updates on a quarterly basis without using GeForce Experience. A few updates will still be available directly through the website (or, God forbid, Windows Update), but those will be released every quarter and won’t be anywhere near as frequent as those available through GFE.
The final version of GeForce Experience is expected to be released sometime this holiday, with a host of new updates and features arriving sometime next year as well.
Surely the choice to lock “fast ring” drivers behind a registration wall will piss off a vocal minority, as fundamental changes often do. Once they’ve done so, they’ll receive emails from NVIDIA. NVIDIA has already been toying with this concept this year by using GeForce Experience to distribute game codes, so while it’s not fully clear what NVIDIA intends to do with a registered user base this is clearly the latest step as part of building their ecosystem.
Twitch broadcast with NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience will now work at 1080p and 60fps.
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Interestingly enough, Nvidia says that “mid to high 90%” of its driver download traffic comes through GFE today, so the company doesn’t expect this new arrangement to change anything for the majority of its customers.
