GeForce Experience Beta Adds 4K GameStream, 1080p60 Broadcast, and YouTube

With the new GeForce Experience Beta gamers will be able to enjoy 1920×1080 (full HD) 60 FPS YouTube Live Streaming and 1920×1080 60 FPS Twitch Streaming.

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. Long-standing GFE features, namely game optimization and driver notifications, remain a mainstay of the application, greatly aiding usability for gamers who don’t necessarily check for drivers with each game release.

Those folks who wish to download drivers from the web will still be able to do so, but they will only get access to the major quarterly driver updates.

Finally, there are changes being made to how driver updates are handled through the GeForce Experience software.

The good news – if you grab the latest drivers then you will have noticed that GeForce Experience has received updates.

Beginning sometime in December, automatic access to Game Ready drivers that provide optimizations specific to newly released titles will require that you enter and verify an email address. Has the update improved performance?

Although NVIDIA’s new updated GeForce Experience utility adds in a few pretty beefy additions for GeForce users, Team Green is now using the software to manage Game Ready driver updates. You can now stream games from your GeForce-equipped PC to an Nvidia Shield device at up to 60 fps at 4K resolution, and that’s with 5.1-channel surround sound, too.

Until this latest release GeForce Experience had been limited to serving up GameStream with 1080p video and stereo audio, so this marks a significant increase in GameStream’s video and audio quality. This is a nice step up from the previous limit of 720p60! Speaking of which, gamers who’d rather stick with Twitch can now also broadcast at 1080p and 60 frames per second, a bump in the maximum supported broadcast resolution of 720p prior to this release.

But it goes beyond just viewing the game – this point to point streaming allows the remote player to take over the controls to teach the local gamer something new or to finish a hard portion of the game you might be stuck on.

The most recent NVIDIA Game Ready driver was GeForce Game Ready 358.50 WHQL drivers for Start Wars Battlefront Open Beta that were released on October 7th, 2015.

I am however curious to hear more details in the coming months about how the registration mechanism and revised driver distribution system works in GeForce Experience, what else NVIDIA will be doing with their growing ecosystem, and what GeForce owners think of this.

One of the key weapons in Nvidia’s arsenal against AMD is its deluge of Game Ready drivers.

Similar to how we optimize games in GeForce Experience, we also provide optimized GameStream settings for your 4K-capable PC.