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Nvidia Officially Launches GeForce Now (Free for up to an hour or £4.99/€5.49/$4.99 per month for six hour access during Founders period)
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Possibly? I pulled up a list via the app just now and all I saw were western regions and one "central." I have it set to automatic, but maybe the eastern data centers are slammed and unavailable. Who knows. I'll try again later.
Thanks for trying! I'm just fool around with the laptop when I get home tonight. Curious of how it will compare to Stadia for my distance to a data center
Nope. No Game Pass/Windows store games. No EA games at all except Apex Legends AFAIK.
Maaaybe Ubisoft+ subscription will work tho, havent tested
The time limits seem a little odd, but I'm very excited that they are offering a free hour so I can try it out.
It's an hour sesssion but your not limited. If your playing a singleplayer game you can play for an hour save log out, log back in and play for another hour etc with no limits as far as I can tell just queuing between sessions.
Currently not available in Australia.
Given how far behind our internet speeds are, I'm not too excited to give this a go.
Given how far behind our internet speeds are, I'm not too excited to give this a go.
Does anyone know if there's a way to change your game language? It defaults to spanish on my system, but I want to play them in English. I already tried setting Destiny 2 (for example) to Eng on from the Steam UI before launching the game, but it doesn't apply the changes (unless I'm missing something?)
Wow, that's even worse than when I had a 4 core/4 thread CPU + 780, which is probably ancient hardware by now. Maybe the free version is held back in performance on purpose?This (with 50Mbps setting on):
I had the Doom ingame performance actived, look at this:
it doesn't make any sense on a GPU like that... does it runs like that (unplayable) on paid service too?
I used Geforce Now quite a bit in the past and it always worked super nicely for me. Even finished a playthrough of Dark Souls 3 on my Macbook this way, love it :)
That wouldn't make sense at all if they're trying to entice potential subscribers.
Wait, so do you only get 6 hours of play for a month, or you can only play for six hours at a time but can do that multiple times in a month?
you can play six hours straight then i think you have to go back in queue but since youre a founder you get access immedtiately i think
Were the egs free games only for subscribers or was it for everyboby?
Could you or anyone here link me the android app ? Nothing is coming up for me. I'm in Canada.
What's up with this and xCloud not being avaliable on iOS? Is it the same thing that the Steam Link app went trough, where Valve eventuelly could have their app on iOS as long as they removed the store from it?
Hmmm... I logged into my Steam account and booted up Dark Souls III, and was greeted with a message saying that I had invalid data and that I've been penalized. It said I can no longer play online, and my only option was to start a new game. My save file was not available. I've never modded this game or used a trainer. WeMod is installed on my gaming laptop, but I've never used it with Dark Souls.
Has this happened to anyone else?
Has this happened to anyone else?
It's a fake installation on THEIR PC... you aren't seeing your Steam client but that it's all streaming, that isn't your PC... the games are already on their PC, the fake installation is to make sure that you have the game on your Steam library, it will take 1 second to "install" it.
Soooo I don't have a pc. There are PC games id like to try. Can I buy stuff on steam, use this service to stream to my phone then cast it to my tv and use a Bluetooth controller?
Apple restrictions most likely, Android is more open.
I linked my Steam account, but tried Destiny and Torchlight II (yes my PC game collection is old) and I just get a screen with like a honeycomb background
edit: Now I see my Steam client in the VM but it's asking me to buy the games that the client says I own lol. I feel like a tourist
edit2: figured it out, I am SLOW
edit: Now I see my Steam client in the VM but it's asking me to buy the games that the client says I own lol. I feel like a tourist
edit2: figured it out, I am SLOW
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So I got a new router that advises it's 5ghz which REALLY improved my Xcloud experience but GE force Now is saying I am using a 2.4 ghz router. Anyone having that issue? Otherwise this is awesome. Totally YouTube quality but if I can get the app on my work CPU this is gangbusters.
Also, how did they swoop in our of nowhere and beat MS and Google to the punch with web browser service for all?
Also, how did they swoop in our of nowhere and beat MS and Google to the punch with web browser service for all?
Well heck, I'll try out the free tier tonight. If this means I can play anno 1800 in bed then I'm super down
Disappointing to hear about lack of iOS support. I wonder which cloud service will be first to that platform
It worked. Downloaded the app from app mirror. Easy. The only pain with this setup in general is that you are constantly required to enter the Steam password every time you want to play a new game. Otherwise it works well on my Bravia from 2017.
did you check which network youre on? dual band routers often put up a 2.4 and a 5ghz network.
I see, but this is seriously making me consider leaving Apple and never come back.
all you need is an account which is free. And claim the free games giveaway every week. It's like PS+/XBG without paying a sub
Okay, that's a bit off-topic, but why is the price in € higher than in $ when it should be the opposite?
Yes. You just need to have a steam/egs/uplay account so it can pull your library. Nothing is installed locally it's all on the GeForceNow (cloud/vm) rig
Far too many of my steam and egs games aren't supported right now to consider paying for this, but it seems pretty impressive all the same. The lag on Doom was noticeable but I've tolerated worse. On a PC monitor with little to no image lag for a game like Doom to be that playable is impressive.
Yeah, it's kinda ridiculous that MS and GOOGLE support only a few countries, while Nvidia supports 50+ countries right from the start.
Just tried a quick round of Rocket League and a few minutes of Doom 2016, and man, I'm impressed. Both feel as good as playing them on a local Steam Link. Still might be a hair too much latency for me to play a competitive FPS with it, but I'd happily use it for some ranked RL.
I'm impressed when I tried out Destiny 2 to compare with Stadia. Stadia was smoother overall like I expected but the Geforce version still ran great for me.
...except I keep getting the icon and warning for unstable network connection. My tests are all better than the recommended and my wifi is 5Ghz and I'm like 10 feet from the router.
...except I keep getting the icon and warning for unstable network connection. My tests are all better than the recommended and my wifi is 5Ghz and I'm like 10 feet from the router.
I've just given it a try with Wreckfest and Darksiders 3.
Performance is definitely better than it was in the beta. Wreckfest doesn't choke when huge crashes are happening and Darksiders 3 is a lot less choppy.
Its not perfect though. Less than a minute into a race in Wreckfest and the stream quality had dropped to what looked like 720p and there were tiny hiccups here and there. Darksiders 3 never dropped resolution, but I got a 'spotty connection' warning a few times. Way fewer than in the beta, but still far from smooth.
(Though I've heard Darksiders 3 never was that well optimised).
Input latency seemed fine though. I didn't really notice any gameplay-ruining lag. Most of the time I didn't notice any lag at all.
Compared to Stadia, where I get 1080p/60 rock solid all the time, Nvidias streaming tech isn't quite as good as Google's, but the ability to play games you already own, and that can be downloaded and played locally (meaning you have an exit strategy if GFN ever goes away) is pretty compelling. The GFN interface is a bit rough, hence the confusion some people are having when using it, whereas Stadia's is sleek and simplified.
The next few months are gonna be real interesting for game-streaming.
Performance is definitely better than it was in the beta. Wreckfest doesn't choke when huge crashes are happening and Darksiders 3 is a lot less choppy.
Its not perfect though. Less than a minute into a race in Wreckfest and the stream quality had dropped to what looked like 720p and there were tiny hiccups here and there. Darksiders 3 never dropped resolution, but I got a 'spotty connection' warning a few times. Way fewer than in the beta, but still far from smooth.
(Though I've heard Darksiders 3 never was that well optimised).
Input latency seemed fine though. I didn't really notice any gameplay-ruining lag. Most of the time I didn't notice any lag at all.
Compared to Stadia, where I get 1080p/60 rock solid all the time, Nvidias streaming tech isn't quite as good as Google's, but the ability to play games you already own, and that can be downloaded and played locally (meaning you have an exit strategy if GFN ever goes away) is pretty compelling. The GFN interface is a bit rough, hence the confusion some people are having when using it, whereas Stadia's is sleek and simplified.
The next few months are gonna be real interesting for game-streaming.
Fuck, this is what I was looking for.so i set it up on my pc... grab my chromebook
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steam link have gotten round this somehow, and as this is the same thing just with a virtual machine, I have hope.
I have been enjoying the beta and despite the foybles it's the right streaming solution for me right now. Pricing is good value, and a 10 a month tier with a gamepass like library is very possible in future
streaming wars getting a bit tasty now
The price is very good so I will consider signing up to the paid tier if the free experience is any good.
I do have a couple of questions though with the first being; is it secure? and secondly how does it handle Steam guard and do you have to input your Steam credentials every time you play?
I do have a couple of questions though with the first being; is it secure? and secondly how does it handle Steam guard and do you have to input your Steam credentials every time you play?