Why does Geforce Experience "optimize" my games with very low settings?

[✿ARTYOM✿]

Why does Geforce Experience "optimize" my games with very low settings?
I'm still something of a novice when it comes to hardware specs and gaming, but I thought my setup was a little better than the crappy "optimized" settings I always get from Geforce Experience. For example, today it optimized my graphics settings for SW Old Republic with what amounted to "very low" graphics settings. Here's my system:

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G 3.9 ghz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
16 GB RAM
Asus Prime A320M-K

Anyone know why GFE constantly rates my setup with having "very low" graphics settings?

[FeilDOW]

I would personally suggest uninstalling GFE and tweaking settings yourself.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Get rid of it.

Please.

[Autumn_]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Get rid of it.

Please.

:qr:

It's not bad, but it doesn't have much use beyond >New drivers are ready to install, and Shadowplay.

If you don't need either, then uninstall it.

Personally, I use Shadowplay, didn't care much for the Drivers notification.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Forget what it suggests.
Use it for driver updates, set this to notify only. And for ShadowPlay. For games, go into the game and set to high or ultra as well as your screens native res and highest refresh rate. Then tweak the settings if fps improvements are needed.

[Snow]

The game is from 2011, and your graphics card was released in 2016. Game wasn't exactly popular, neither it is now, and due to its MMO nature GTX 1060 can make it run 1080p ultra 100+ FPS with a clap of a fingers (with a clap of a CUDA cores? damn idk what GeForce uses for clapping). I've seen a video of how NVidia makes those GFE advice - there's some kind of all-in-one monster PC with the top graphics card from each of the latest NVidia lineups, each card able to simulate all lower cards from the same series. So, this über-PC is running various games testing how various cards would handle that exact game. Testing one graphics card model in one game might take enormous amount of time, as your typical game is likely have a dozen of various graphics settings, each having at least 3 different options, let's say "low", "medium" and "high". In reality a lot of settings these day can have more than 5 options, not to mention how many screen resolutions are out there, and adding another option to this equation doesn't just add a number to amount of possible settings combinations, it literally multiplies it. After hundreds if not thousands of tests for one single game, the data from this exact PC uploads on some main GFE server or how they call it and just stays there waiting for more data like that from PCs like that to come around, to eliminate the randomness and find the most correct results for each graphics card model. I might be not precise in some parts of how that all works, but I doubt the reality is way different from what I know about GFE.
Now, with all that in mind, what are the chances they'll use all that hardware and manpower to test how some old not-exactly-popular easy-on-GPU game will work on pretty fine GPU released 5 years after the game, when some AAA game is released every other Sunday? Yep, they just left it behind with GTX 1000 release, or even earlier. So when you're trying to optimize SW:TOR for GTX 1060, and GFE ends up having zero data on how that would work - it just sets the game to low settings to make sure you'll at least have no problems adjusting the settings on your own, as if it'd set the settings to ultra, and it would be some actually demanding game on a weak GPU - you'll have to get though menus with 5 fps, if not less, which would make you as a consumer think GFE just complicates things and stop using it, and NVidia wants you to feel the need for GFE.
It's important to understand NVidia don't just sell some hardware that does some calculations, they sell a bundle of convenience and service. Shadowplay will help you record your games, HairWorks will show a nice fur on some wolves in your games, GSync and FastSync will make your games run smooth, GFE will help you adjust graphics settings in your games, etc. etc. etc. It doesn't matter if every single thing in the list is possible on AMD graphics card or even Intel iGPU, NVidia will always make those ideas that come with NVidia graphics card their selling point. In the world where you can already play e-sports titles with a little thingy under a CPU heatsink instead of a dedicated graphics cards NVidia are already afraid as ♥♥♥♥ no one might need their products in a next few years, so the best they can do - keep making us want their ideas like DLSS, RT-cores or GFE you been asking about.
Idk why can't I stop typing.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Concur get rid of the Gforce Experience

[Monk]

Nothing wrong with geforce experience, it has some nice features, using it to optimise games, however, is not one of them, disable the feature and just use it for shadow play, ansil and drivers.