2025 marks a decade of me working in the tech industry. In that time, I've concocted and documented hundreds of custom PC builds and benchmarked hundreds more products, each time installing a fresh OS on every system I use – and that doesn't include reinstalls on my own rigs.
I can tell you now, nothing infuriated me more than GeForce Experience during that time. That might sound like quite the hyperbolic statement to launch an opinion piece like this, right out of the gate, but seriously – it was a program that just got more convoluted, less useful, and generally more of a pain in the ass to deal with over the years. With its retirement and replacement with the Nvidia App this year, I was at first cautiously weary, but soon enough, found myself filled with glee.
Why the big beef with Nvidia's GeForce Experience (GFE)? Well, mostly it just felt a bit grubby. When GFE was first introduced, it was simple enough – just a desktop program that would suggest some settings for games (which I'd promptly ignore), along with update recommendations to grab new drivers (cutting-edge stuff), oh, and ShadowPlay, which, let's face it, was largely written off by gamers.