Nvidia's GeForce Experience

[DJ aka GDR DJ]

Nvidia's GeForce Experience will optimize your game's graphics settings with a supercomputer

 

 

On the same day as Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 690 GPU was announced, the company’s president Jen-Hsun Huang also told the audience about a five-year project at the company that, if it works as promised, could be a real solution to the recommended graphics settings crapshoot. Named GeForce Experience, the cloud-based service will use supercomputers to determine the optimal combination of settings for each game, tailoring it to the user's particular hardware and software environment. With a piece of GeForce Experience software on their PCs, players will be able to simply click a button in order to download the optimal settings, along with the newest drivers.

 

"We literally use this data center, and this supercomputer, to methodically search the perfect setting for each GPU, CPU, motherboard, operating system, and driver configuration."

 

One of PC gaming’s strengths is the ability to configure graphics in-game, letting players with very different hardware and software setups enjoy the same title. The flip side is a bewildering array of graphics sliders with names like "radial blur quality" and "distant object detail" that users need to tweak in order to milk the best performance out of their machines. In his presentation, Huang said that four out of five gamers play games at their default settings, meaning 144 million or so PC gamers are missing out on an optimal (or even good) gaming experience. The GeForce Experience beta launches in June.

 

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[Jefke]

My first thought was when I read this:

 

 

'mmmm... intresting, only hope I still be able to tweak settings (lowering quality for more fps for example)'

 

In the nVidia keynote it's mentioned that you still be able to tweak it (maybe obvious, but I just want to keep the control over my machine )

[ajnl]

awesome!

[Darketch]

Wonder how much extra this service is going to cost and what$$$ theyll add to future nvidia products just cause their cloud capable. I see them trying to nickel and dime consumers just like other hardware makers and the gaming industry. You know...buy a game, but have to by add ons or "in game money" to get to the next stage.

[jaie]

Is he saying that their new cloud system will allow you to go inbetween "radial blur quality" and "distant object detail", like an optimal point, like if radical blur is 1, and distant object is 2, the super computer can work out that the optimal point based on your specs is 1.7.

Or is he saying that it will choose the optimal category for you either 1, or 2, based on your specs?

[TulsaGeoff]

Wonder if this goes beyond the normal click and drag settings. If it does then it is tailored for the PC noobs.