Nvidia Ansel, do i need GeForce experience?

[Q]

I played Soul Calibur VI for the first time and it has this nice feature called Nvidia Ansel, with alt+f2 you can freeze everything and take a screenshots, move the camera, add filters etc

So i went to nvidia site and seems like many other games are compatible with Ansel including metro last light redux and Smite and i tried those but Ansel is not working...

Does Soul Calibur VI have integrated Ansel without geforce experience? and for the other games i need geforce experience installed?? i've been avoiding geforce experience cuz al lthe crap that comes with it but heck Ansel is such a nice tool to create wallpapers, art, screenshots etc.

[rawWwRrr]

GeForce Experience is required.

[Q]

Too bad, i've read so many threads about how nvidia geforce experience can ruin your game settings and other bad stuff.

Soul Calibur VI has just a small ini file located at soul calibur > nvidia > ansel > ini file about 654kb.
Is that all that ansel requires in soul calibur??? do you think i could copy & paste that folder in some other game like metro and try launching ansel?

[Wolfpig]

引用自 Smol Hobbit：

Too bad, i've read so many threads about how nvidia geforce experience can ruin your game settings and other bad stuff.

Soul Calibur VI has just a small ini file located at soul calibur > nvidia > ansel > ini file about 654kb.
Is that all that ansel requires in soul calibur??? do you think i could copy & paste that folder in some other game like metro and try launching ansel?

Are aou sure that you not just have activated an integrated photo mode in the game and not the nvidia feature which requires gfx all the time?

And no...if you dont let it automatically optimize games and stuff it will have exactly zero negative feedback on your gaming.....

[metamec]

No. Or at least not for all games. I never, ever install GeForce Experience and I always get the press Alt+F2 for Ansel notification when launching supported games. Like Ghostwire: Tokyo for example. And it definitely works when I press Alt+F2.

I am unable to answer the question about Soul Calibur VI because I don't own it. Sorry.

[Q]

引用自 Wolfpig：

引用自 Smol Hobbit：

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Are aou sure that you not just have activated an integrated photo mode in the game and not the nvidia feature which requires gfx all the time?

And no...if you dont let it automatically optimize games and stuff it will have exactly zero negative feedback on your gaming.....

I definitely didn't install gfx i always download just the driver not the whole thing as in geforce experience.
Literally the only reason i know of Ansel existance is thx to soul calibur VI, when i launched the game i saw a little message in the left top corner saying "nvidia ansel ready hit alt+f2" etc

引用自 metamec：

No. Or at least not for all games. I never, ever install GeForce Experience and I always get the press Alt+F2 for Ansel notification when launching supported games. Like Ghostwire: Tokyo for example. And it definitely works when I press Alt+F2.

I am unable to answer the question about Soul Calibur VI because I don't own it. Sorry.

So just the supported games who have ansel already installed, like Ghostwire or SCVI else you need geforce experience... i suppose.

[metamec]

引用自 Smol Hobbit：

引用自 metamec：

No. Or at least not for all games. I never, ever install GeForce Experience and I always get the press Alt+F2 for Ansel notification when launching supported games. Like Ghostwire: Tokyo for example. And it definitely works when I press Alt+F2.

I am unable to answer the question about Soul Calibur VI because I don't own it. Sorry.

So just the supported games who have ansel already installed, like Ghostwire or SCVI else you need geforce experience... i suppose.

That's how I'm interpreting this too. As someone who takes a lot of screenshots I should probably pay more attention to Ansel, but there's no way I'm installing GeForce Experience.

[Anxiety]

GeForce Experience ain't that bad and intrusive, if you don't let it mess with your games and drivers. Frankly, I forgot I even had it installed. I just use its handy features like Ansel and Shadowplay and never even see the app itself. For years.

[Q]

引用自 metamec：

引用自 Smol Hobbit：

So just the supported games who have ansel already installed, like Ghostwire or SCVI else you need geforce experience... i suppose.

That's how I'm interpreting this too. As someone who takes a lot of screenshots I should probably pay more attention to Ansel, but there's no way I'm installing GeForce Experience.

Same, i'm not installing nvidia bloatware, too bad such feature is not available for more games cuz you can take like 4k screens and move the camera around the characters etc.

[Zefar]

引用自 Smol Hobbit：

Too bad, i've read so many threads about how nvidia geforce experience can ruin your game settings and other bad stuff.

Soul Calibur VI has just a small ini file located at soul calibur > nvidia > ansel > ini file about 654kb.
Is that all that ansel requires in soul calibur??? do you think i could copy & paste that folder in some other game like metro and try launching ansel?

Those people have lied to you then.

You can let the program modify the settings but you have to ask it to do it.

The other things it do is keep you updated on what the newest version of driver is out and you can choose when you want to install it. You can also perform clean install with each driver update if you want. You just have to pick Custom install and select clean install.

If you run the OS on a SSD or NVME, bloat isn't a thing.

[Q]

引用自 Zefar：

引用自 Smol Hobbit：

Too bad, i've read so many threads about how nvidia geforce experience can ruin your game settings and other bad stuff.

Soul Calibur VI has just a small ini file located at soul calibur > nvidia > ansel > ini file about 654kb.
Is that all that ansel requires in soul calibur??? do you think i could copy & paste that folder in some other game like metro and try launching ansel?

Those people have lied to you then.

You can let the program modify the settings but you have to ask it to do it.

The other things it do is keep you updated on what the newest version of driver is out and you can choose when you want to install it. You can also perform clean install with each driver update if you want. You just have to pick Custom install and select clean install.

If you run the OS on a SSD or NVME, bloat isn't a thing.

So it won't run in the background eating ram and cpu with the proper settings? my biggest fear is that gfx could be like one of those win10 or win1 process which you don't even notice coz there's no icon in the tray, task bar notification area etc

Can you launch it and close the gfx at will?? stop it from downloading drivers automatically? messing with your custom nvidia settings for each game?

[Anxiety]

引用自 Smol Hobbit：

So it won't run in the background eating ram and cpu with the proper settings? my biggest fear is that gfx could be like one of those win10 or win1 process which you don't even notice coz there's no icon in the tray, task bar notification area etc

Can you launch it and close the gfx at will?? stop it from downloading drivers automatically? messing with your custom nvidia settings for each game?

Yes, all of it. You can choose to only launch it when you need it - it sits in the tray after that, you can exit it at any time. I don't even have it in autoload on boot, only standard Nvidia panel. I also disabled every function except those I actually use.

So much panic and misinformation these days.

[metamec]

引用自 Anxiety：

GeForce Experience ain't that bad and intrusive, if you don't let it mess with your games and drivers. Frankly, I forgot I even had it installed. I just use its handy features like Ansel and Shadowplay and never even see the app itself. For years.

It's been a while, but doesn't it advertise itself every time you login to Windows? Maybe I'm misrembering. Or maybe it's possible to disable those popups now via GeForce Experience. I seem to recall having to login to GeForce Experience quite a lot too. Another thing that puts me off Ansel is the lack of support for AZERTY keyboards. Maybe it's possible to change the keyboard bindings via GeForce Experience though.

I might look into it again some day if only to refresh my knowledge, but I dunno... searching for recent opinions around the internet just now, it seems like not much has changed.

[metamec]

引用自 Anxiety：

Yes, all of it. You can choose to only launch it when you need it - it sits in the tray after that, you can exit it at any time. I don't even have it in autoload on boot, only standard Nvidia panel. I also disabled every function except those I actually use.

Uh, I should have scrolled down further before replying. I guess I'll test drive it again when the next update comes along. Thanks for your perspective. :)

[Q]

引用自 Anxiety：

引用自 Smol Hobbit：

So it won't run in the background eating ram and cpu with the proper settings? my biggest fear is that gfx could be like one of those win10 or win1 process which you don't even notice coz there's no icon in the tray, task bar notification area etc

Can you launch it and close the gfx at will?? stop it from downloading drivers automatically? messing with your custom nvidia settings for each game?

Yes, all of it. You can choose to only launch it when you need it - it sits in the tray after that, you can exit it at any time. I don't even have it in autoload on boot, only standard Nvidia panel. I also disabled every function except those I actually use.

So much panic and misinformation these days.

Then i guess i should try GFX and if i don't like it then DDU should remove it entirely am i right? or that's something different and i have to uninstall it separately?