[UPDATE: It was an accident] NVIDIA closes the gates on Vulkan Beta drivers

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UPDATE:

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Move along, nothing to see here.

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Iā€™m surprised they arenā€™t charging for regular drivers yetā€¦

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There is a cost for the regular drivers. Itā€™s called GeForce Experience. Vanilla installers have to bundle that now.

Man, if TotalBiscuit were still aliveā€¦ He called BS on a ā€œsystem specā€ banner (My Rig Details) in GeForce Experience/Shadowplay in NVIDIA press drivers:

For those unable to watch the whole video, it looks like this:

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You can install Nvidia windows drivers without Geforce Experience as of mid-2018.

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Yes, during the installation process. But they have to pack all the telemetry and GFE files still in the installer. Only if you choose to ā€œslimā€ your installer can you avoid GFE and Telemetry fully.

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What would that Nvidia membership require

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Soooo why do you keep buying the cards?

No point in whining about them if you are not going to do anything. Stop enabling them.

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So will this have you make the switch to Team Red or are you going to keep giving Nvidia your money?

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Err yeah, if that matters to you.

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Iā€™m sure itā€™s gonna be a huge surprise to everyone here but I still hate that company and this is just one more strike against them in my book.

So ā€¦ fuckā€™em! ĀÆ\_(惄)_/ĀÆ

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Thanks to nVidia we now have 2 GPU choices instead of 3.

They sued 3dFX into administration.

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Seems it was just an accident? When visiting the page I see:

ā€œUPDATE: By accident these links initially required a login to access. That has now been fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.ā€

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bet the PR nightmare that this was on the verge of causing made them pull a my bad sorry.

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Iā€™d say so.

I remember when we were trying to get Adobe to make whatever for Linux and the voting page was eaten up by the spam detecting robot.

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Issue resolved. Tin foil hats away.

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