"Game Ready" Driver Updates Will Only be Available Through GeForce Experience

You'll still be able to download larger driver updates without using GeForce Experience.

According to PC World, Nvidia will require you use its GeForce Experience software in order to download Game Ready driver updates. The standard drivers will be still available on Nvidia's website.

"We kind of have two camps in terms of gamers," Nvidia producer manager Sean Pelletier said during a recent conference call attended by PC World. "On one hand you have the gamer that's just casually playing things here and there, using their system for daily use and gaming on the side. They don't want to be inundated with these [Game Ready] drivers."

"On the other side of the equation you have enthusiast gamers, who get excited about preloading a game, who want to play a game the day it comes out with all the bells and whistles," Pelletier added. "That's obviously the demographic we're looking at for Game Ready drivers. We're targeting GFE as a single-source destination for those gamers."

Nvidia has yet to reveal the reason behind the lock.