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Re:Nvidia adds telemetry to latest drivers by jaytaylor on Sunday November 06, 2016 @03:00PM (#12886769)
I just uninstalled GeForce Experience and it immediately caused the already open Battlefield 1 game instance to crash.

Way to go Nvidia.. uninstalling your non-driver app crashes games :)

Re:Nvidia adds telemetry to latest drivers by treebeard901 on Sunday November 06, 2016 @03:09PM (#12886808)
> Way to go Nvidia.. uninstalling your non-driver app crashes games

That's a weird edge case to support. After all, the app in question is responsible for recording in game video thus implying some kind of dependency.

Re:Nvidia adds telemetry to latest drivers by Namidairo on Sunday November 06, 2016 @08:40PM (#12888225)
I have the suspicion that their overlay drawing is fairly low level as it seems to manage to draw over programs which are injection unfriendly and exclusive fullscreen.

Evidently it does not handle getting the rug pulled from under itself well. :)