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Android on my TV: (keeps crashing, internet sometimes not working, sound volume usually is wrong, etc.)

Nvidia GeForce Experience: I don't actually use it daily, because it doesn't work. I have not been able to start it for the last 6 months without getting a startup error. I contacted Nvidia support, reinstalled, downgraded, updated, problem is still there. The tray icon always shows when there's a new update, but I have to manually download it.

Google Chrome: Whenever I ALT+TAB back to Chrome it freezes for 1 second. It could be one of the extensions I use, but never found the cause. Google's own note-taking app, Google Keep, was crashing the browser on Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/docs/thread/9482426?hl=en

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duncanawoods5y ago

> Nvidia GeForce Experience

My god what a bad experience... to update my graphics driver I am first forced to log-in which would be bad enough but then also solve two captchas and then for some reason these frequent driver updates are multiple gigabytes in size. I have no idea what the hell they are doing.

smabie5y ago

Ehh, this isn't really true. You only have to log in once (not every time) and the drivers usually clock in at around 600mb, not multiple GBs.

pavel_lishin5y ago

I boot up my windows machine maybe once a month; I'm not sure what the login timeout is, but it seems to be at most that. I always have to log in. My password is something like "fuckyounvidiayoupieceofshit".

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ben-schaaf5y ago

Last time I downloaded factorio it was ~300MB. I think you'll find entire Linux distributions including mesa + Intel and AMD GPU drivers fit in 600mb of data.

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mr_toad5y ago

The drivers are an insignificant fraction of the 600 MB. Most of the 600 MB is an entirely new copy of GFE being downloaded every single time, and most of that is the damned advertisements.

Thus just makes me hate anything to do with Nvidia.

philliphaydon5y ago

I've wasted too much money on Android TV. I bought 4 little android boxes. The best of them being Mi Box S

In the end I caved and bought an Apple TV 4k. I'm just sick and tired of how laggy android tv is, it's lagging on TVs that ship with it, it's laggy on little android boxes, it crashes often, if it's not crashing the apps are.

Apple TV 4k is super fast and never skips a beat, never crashes, just wish it wouldn't flick to the Apple TV app when I want to go back to app screen.

bananaface5y ago

You don't need GeForce Experience. All the tech is in the base driver, Experience only adds social features. Uninstall it, it's just a vessel for advertising.

noizejoy5y ago

My DAW (digital audio workstation) seemed to have fewer audio stream dropouts once I got rid of GeForce experience.

literallycancer5y ago

If you just need the driver and don't care about the fluff, you don't need GeForce Experience AFAIK. Same for Adrenaline.

XCSmeOP5y ago

I actually liked their in-game overlay and ShadowPlay for making quick screen captures. Also their auto-optimization for games (set some better default game quality settings) was useful a couple of time. Also, the one click to update the drivers is better than googling for new drivers, downloading, installing.

bananaface5y ago

You don't need Experience for the overlay. I only have the driver and I was playing around with it yesterday.

XCSmeOP5y ago

Forgot to ask, maybe anyone knows a fix for the GeForce Experience error code EROR CODE: 0x0003. It just crashes on launch, even after clean reinstall and driver updates.

glenneroo5y ago

I'm partially joking here (but not entirely) - Nvidia support will likely give you the standard Microsoft forums answer after exhausting all other copy/pasted "solutions": reinstall Windows.

Also while we are dumping on Nvidia here, why does the 2080 Ti with 5 outputs only support 4 active at one time, while the 1070 Ti could use all 5 ports at once? I paid considerably more for a faster card, yet I'm more limited. Support basically told me "it's too much bandwidth". I guess I can't complain too much, at least tech support has some actual humans replying to emails (albeit the first 3 emails are copy/pasted).

millimeterman5y ago

I disagree about Chrome. It's absolutely not perfect, but considering its sheer complexity - browsers are probably comparable to an operating system at this point - bugs are fairly rare and performance is quite good.

frank25y ago

Considering its sheer complexity its is indeed well-executed. I just wish I didn't need something that complex to read a document on the internet.

minerjoe5y ago

You don't! I switched to using links on the linux framebuffer and it rocks. Yea, there are a few sites that I have to pop over to X and Firefox, but for the vast majority of web sites that I visit, including this one, it works like a charm.

And it's lighting fast. Trully stunning. 10-20ms to render on a circa 2008 thinkpad.

And it's pretty good straight C, and very hackable, and only around 70,000 LOC. First thing I did was join it with guile and write a bit of glue code and I'm now adding features to it faster than you could git clone firefox, let alone begin to read its code.

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millimeterman5y ago

I mean, modern websites do a lot more than display documents. They're certainly bloated, but they increasingly need to "do everything." Normal people do so much of their computer usage in the browser that it could probably _be_ the operating system and most people wouldn't lose any functionality (see: ChromeOS).

XCSmeOP5y ago

I agree, but Windows for example is also complex. I wouldn't find it acceptable if it froze for 1 second everytime I switched between programs. Complexity is not really an excuse for bugs. If it's so complicated it creates so many issues, maybe it shouldn't be this complicated?

millimeterman5y ago

I mean, that problem is hardly common and Windows is definitely full of similar bugs. And I'm not sure it's possible to make web browsers much simpler without losing functionality - the websites they have to support necessitate the complexity.

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duncanawoods5y ago

> Nvidia GeForce Experience

smabie5y ago

Ehh, this isn't really true. You only have to log in once (not every time) and the drivers usually clock in at around 600mb, not multiple GBs.

pavel_lishin5y ago

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ben-schaaf5y ago

Last time I downloaded factorio it was ~300MB. I think you'll find entire Linux distributions including mesa + Intel and AMD GPU drivers fit in 600mb of data.

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mr_toad5y ago

The drivers are an insignificant fraction of the 600 MB. Most of the 600 MB is an entirely new copy of GFE being downloaded every single time, and most of that is the damned advertisements.

Thus just makes me hate anything to do with Nvidia.

philliphaydon5y ago

I've wasted too much money on Android TV. I bought 4 little android boxes. The best of them being Mi Box S

Apple TV 4k is super fast and never skips a beat, never crashes, just wish it wouldn't flick to the Apple TV app when I want to go back to app screen.

bananaface5y ago

You don't need GeForce Experience. All the tech is in the base driver, Experience only adds social features. Uninstall it, it's just a vessel for advertising.

noizejoy5y ago

My DAW (digital audio workstation) seemed to have fewer audio stream dropouts once I got rid of GeForce experience.

literallycancer5y ago

If you just need the driver and don't care about the fluff, you don't need GeForce Experience AFAIK. Same for Adrenaline.

XCSmeOP5y ago

bananaface5y ago

You don't need Experience for the overlay. I only have the driver and I was playing around with it yesterday.

XCSmeOP5y ago

Forgot to ask, maybe anyone knows a fix for the GeForce Experience error code EROR CODE: 0x0003. It just crashes on launch, even after clean reinstall and driver updates.

glenneroo5y ago

I'm partially joking here (but not entirely) - Nvidia support will likely give you the standard Microsoft forums answer after exhausting all other copy/pasted "solutions": reinstall Windows.

millimeterman5y ago

frank25y ago

Considering its sheer complexity its is indeed well-executed. I just wish I didn't need something that complex to read a document on the internet.

minerjoe5y ago

And it's lighting fast. Trully stunning. 10-20ms to render on a circa 2008 thinkpad.

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