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Holy crap Charlie!
I need to be more careful, as I made SWMBOEMTCSWMBO (SWMBO even more than Charlie's SWMBO) a tuna sandwich for lunch.
Software Zen: delete this;
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thanks for spelling that out  . Doc says my thumb will heal fine, no need for surgery.
funny, I try to work and type - i have to be gentle.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Display driver?!!
That's the latest Game Ready GeForce driver package!
What on earth could it possibly include that it's that large?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Probably the gee-whiz über-fancy control app that lets you customize your adapter's behavior for each game.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Did you ask them?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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That's because they are too lazy to break each card into its own driver package. Uungh!
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I don't think it's a matter of being lazy. I can't imagine trying to support packages unique to each card and OS version and then dealing with irate customers who don't know what video card they have or what OS version they are running. I would guess a driver package for a specific card model or generation of cards and OS version would be between 10 and 20% of what they have but the support requirements would be the inverse of that - 5 to 10 times more.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: irate customers who don't know what video card they have or what OS version they are running
The "GeForce Experience" app, which you are required to use to install the drivers, knows which card and OS you have.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No, that is not required. I installed the latest version just last night and it is optional. You are right though, the type of customer who doesn't know those things should and likely will install that.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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yeha.. thats good!
I think the "expirience" app is total bullshit..
like messing up my carefully finetuned ingame graphic settings, because.. it knows better...
and not even telling.. me about it.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: What on earth could it possibly include that it's that large?
Easy: non-driver stuff.
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All those pre-rendered bitmaps to make it look good on benchmarks?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Did you check how large the installed binary drivers are on your specific machine?
GeForce may have a record breaking InstallerSize/BinaryDriverSize ratio, but I've seen some really bad cases in other software as well.
As others have pointed out, default installation options may include applications that you don't really need. You may uncheck the option, or you may delete the applications any time after installation. Usually, a plain application can be deleted with no consequences for other software, and if you find out it really was needed, most installers can do a repair / reinstall task to get it back.
Note: I am talking about Windows! On a *nix system, you should be extremely careful! Never trust that because you never touch some application or tool, you can delete it. You can be 99% sure that even if you never use, say, a scripting language, so you want to free up disk space by deleting its interpreter. Half a year later, some different installer crashes badly with a cryptic error message because it "knows" (erroneously) that the interpreter is present. It probably was included in your *nix distro, and no one would be so crazy that they remove any part of the distro, would they?
So, I have learned the hard way: Never ever try to "clean up" your *nix installation, especially regarding software development tools. Limit cleanups to you private data files, and leave the rest untouched!
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trønderen wrote: eally bad cases in other software as well
*cough* Adobe *cough* Printer drivers *cough cough*
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ATI Catalyst back in the 200x's were 130 MB so...
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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They probably include optimizations for each game, well, at least the ones that pay them to do that.
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GeForce Experience, feel free to uninstall it if you don't need it (I like it's video recording capability).
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They've based it on Electron so it's cross-platform...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Maybe the graphics card is a dummy and they do everything via software?!
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Plus there's the whole manycore parallel supercomputer thing. Might take a few megabytes for that.
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I'm back.
"Hello world".
--edit
I post using my real name, and I was an addict.
Morphine was my drug.
modified 13-Oct-21 18:35pm.
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Did we miss you? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Prolly not 
Something like a nosebleed.
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