NVIDIA GeForce Experience Releases Today

GFE is adding support for streaming to both Twitch and YouTube Live at 1080p60. This new update is the flawless example of how NVIDIA stands out from the competition and end users benefit from “all NVIDIA” entertainment setup.

Additionally, power users donning an Nvidia Shield device can stream from their Nvidia-equipped rigs at up to 60 fps at 2160p or 4K. It is yet to see what NVIDIA has hidden under its sleeves.

Nvidia will soon require you to use its GeForce Experience software in order to download Game Ready driver updates, though it’ll continue to offer standard drivers through its website. The drivers you can grab on GeForce.com or via Windows Update will be limited to quarterly releases for bug fixes, new features, security updates and so on. Of course, you’ll need a fairly powerful PC and a television that supports 4K resolutions, but if you have those two, chances are you’ll be going after the GeForce Experience immediately after reading this. Nvidia now posts new drivers on a regular basis to their website while also simultaneously pushing them out via GeForce Experience.

Starting with a pending December update to GeForce Experience, NVIDIA will be changing the way they will distribute their driver updates.

In the new GeForce Experience Beta update we’re adding an email registration feature so we can better support and communicate with our users; the next time you download a Game Ready driver through GeForce Experience you’ll be asked for a verified email address.

While it’s true that these two demographics exist, and that only the latter might be inclined to use GeForce Experience, it doesn’t explain why it’s necessary to lock Game Ready drivers behind this barrier. Download the required GeForce Experience Beta client update here. 

But what’s coming today isn’t the real news, even if it’s welcome news. The GeForce Experience beta lets you broadcast to either YouTube or Twitch, the latter of which was already supported, only now you can do it at 1080p and 60 frames per second at a maximum bitrate of 9Mbps. Given that PC gaming is otherwise one of the few bright spots in a tough market for PCs – year-over-year worldwide sales were down 7.7% for Q3 – it makes a great deal of sense for NVIDIA to want to further bolster their hand in the PC gaming market.