NVIDIA and Stardock have announced a special Impulse 'NVIDIA Edition' which will be specially branded for NVIDIA users. Gamers will be able to be informed of video card driver updates and install them via Stardock's Impulse. Users will also use Impulse to see the latest gaming news and purchase and download PC games straight from Impulse."The single biggest issue preventing PC gamers today from having an optimal experience is a failure to update their video card drivers," said Brad Wardell, CEO and president of Stardock. "For many users, updating video drivers has been a complicated and sometimes confusing experience. As PC game developers ourselves, we recognized those concerns and, in partnership with NVIDIA, have taken a step to make the process more accessible."
Stardock is a member of the NVIDIA developer program. The two companies have worked in partnership since 2002 when Stardock created a series of WindowBlinds skins branded for NVIDIA and some of NVIDIA's partners. Impulse is Stardock's digital distribution platform. The platform, often compared to Valve's Steam Network, allows Stardock to distribute its own games and those of partners - digitally.
The NVIDIA branded version of Impulse is available immediately and at no cost at the NVIDIA site.
Download: Impulse 'NVIDIA Edition' (free)Thanks to Neowin member Island Dog for the news tip
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Care to qualify that? I find Impulse just as good at buying and downloading games as Steam is, quite often it's better. Steam downloads are horribly slow when new games are released, or when big patches come out.
seems to should go back to school, and learn how to read the entire article
No I think he had it about right. If you want games you get Steam if you want to waist your money on useless software you buy Stardock products.
I've... never got a slow download from Steam. Hell, I'm always hitting my internet speed cap at ~375KB/s.
Secondly, how is Impulse "just as good" when the selection blows?
Secondly, how is Impulse "just as good" when the selection blows?
Exactly, at 375KB/s the internet from 1995 would hit your speed cap /sarcasm
I have 25mbs internet, and steam is slow as hell, on a new game release, like Empire Total war, it would download at under 100KBs, or not download at all.
I realize that Stardock is probably just using paid forum posters again, but I'll bite;
The selection on Impulse sucks, and what good games there are, are typically offered on Steam as well. Sorry that you're one of those people that have to have everything right this second, and can't understand the concept of bogged servers...but logically, in certain scenarios, Impulse would be faster, because hardly anyone but Stardock fans use it.
I used Steama a lot, but i see nothing wrong with Stardock's attempt. TBH i'd be more willing to buy from Stardock as they have been very supportive of sane (or no) DRM. Steam is borderline.
Steam has the games and publishers at the moment, but hopefully Stardock will get some big games, and provide some price competition to stop Valve screwing over the EU.
No idea if I can covert my normal impulse to a nvidia edition or will it just work?
Might try this on spare machine when I get a chance.
lol what?
Probably involves rigorous testing, as loading up an unstable video driver through WU could cause some serious problems for users. No sense in jumping to a new driver anyway, without first looking into the details of how well it works and any possible bugs that may exist.
Possibly because its RC.......
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