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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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You are basically renting virtual machine on Nvidia servers. So you are playing games you own (not all but many) on that virtual machine. And no is apps because Apple won't allow store where they can't get 30% cut.
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yeah, I find this substantially more appealing than Stadia personally. The only thing I'm sorta confused about is what's the "limited time offer" part of the Founders membership? Is it the 4.99 price or the 90 day introductory period?
Also this isn't a super big deal, but I do kinda wish, there was a way to just pay 60 dollars up front instead of just the 4.99 a month. Not a dealbreaker or anything, but assuming this works really well on my internet connection, I'd probably be very interested in long term use, and I'd be more than happy to pay for the entire year.
Also this isn't a super big deal, but I do kinda wish, there was a way to just pay 60 dollars up front instead of just the 4.99 a month. Not a dealbreaker or anything, but assuming this works really well on my internet connection, I'd probably be very interested in long term use, and I'd be more than happy to pay for the entire year.
Everything but the queuing system seems great. Instant access is what makes streaming worthwhile.
It's $4.99 after the 90 day trial period. I just signed up and my first billing date is some time in May.
It's 4.99 for the first 12 months during the 'Founders period'. After that it'll be the 'Geforce NOW Premium subscription' for an unspecified amount.
so i set it up on my pc... grab my chromebook
Chromebook support is coming later this year.
The latter, it's cloud streaming. Like stadia etc. You just need to own the games.
Oh snap, this might be the ideal way to play Cyberpunk (for me) because I don't think anyone is optimizing for Stadia properly & a GeForce 2080 in the cloud might be better. Thanks!
Do you know where I go to enter my Steam account? I haven't found anything yet, just asking me to verify each time I start a game that I add to my library from the built in search option.
When you select a game and click on "Play" the app redirects you to a kind of virtual desktop in the cloud. There it will ask you to log in into your steam account to verify that you own the game.
But not all games on my library are compatible, right?
I'm reading the official list here (Wayback machine because the site is down):
https://web.archive.org/web/20200105131223/https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/supported-games/
EDIT: Yeah, I'm gonna pass on this one. Not a single MS game like Forza or Killer Instinct.
I'll just wait for Xcloud, whenever the eff it comes out of beta and into every territory. :/
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Theres gonna be quite a few disappointed people here soon. Not every game is supported, in fact i would go as far to say its pretty damn limited, and for those of you saying theres a workaround its been patched a while back. The service itself can be extremely inconsistent at times and goes from perfectly fine to unplayable with no reason as to why that might be.
If you're looking for lengthy impressions, Ars Technica has them. I spent all weekend testing the service to answer the kinds of questions popping up in this thread.
Signed up for the free plan and loaded up Wolf:Youngblood since it's a pretty fast and nice looking game. Was really impressed honestly, the input lag was really good and the bitrate on the stream seemed really nice. Fairly minimal compression artifacts while I was playing. As someone who also has access to Stadia I have to say, if it wasn't already extremely obvious to them Google really needs to start looking at different business models or I think that thing is gonna be DOA because after trying both this and XCloud I fail to see how Google's value proposition makes sense.
Sadly, it appears that the rumours that you can play all your games were false, it's the same limitations as the beta.
With that said, it does include Fortnite, so that's probably enough to put Stadia in trouble on it's own.
With that said, it does include Fortnite, so that's probably enough to put Stadia in trouble on it's own.
I'm going to give this a shot, though it is a shame there is no iOS app at launch.
Same - very cool to see so many options for cloud gaming roll out.
Same - very cool to see so many options for cloud gaming roll out.
so the price might change after the Founders period. Well, that's kind of a bummer, but it would be nice if the 4.99 price stuck.
They say right on sign up that the price is a limited time offer.
Well, surprisingly, it's available in Mexico lol and works alright. Tried with the Witcher 3, seems that you first have to download your games to Nvidia servers, right? It didn't take too long, but I wasn't expecting that. After that I just normally launched the game from the Steam UI and the game worked pretty fine.
Thanks and yep that's what Ive been doing, seems needlessly complicated. So I sign in with my Steam account and see a streamed version of the Steam app with all my games. Then within the Steam app I have to search for the game again and click on download, has to be a supported game of course. They should definitely try to streamline this experience.
Just played 15 minutes of Destiny 2 on my MacBook Pro (early-2016) from my office (university campus). We have super restricted Wi-Fi here; I've never been able to get Playstation Remote Play to connect ever.
60FPS locked the entire time, no notable latency, no stutter, no hitches. It did drop the rendering resolution significantly at certain times. The Tower was like the 3DS Xenoblade port for a couple minutes - but patrolling the Moon looked amazing. And again, not a single latency hitch or FPS drop the entire time. I'm impressed. Sad that the one big game I'm currently playing, FF14, isn't supported at all.
60FPS locked the entire time, no notable latency, no stutter, no hitches. It did drop the rendering resolution significantly at certain times. The Tower was like the 3DS Xenoblade port for a couple minutes - but patrolling the Moon looked amazing. And again, not a single latency hitch or FPS drop the entire time. I'm impressed. Sad that the one big game I'm currently playing, FF14, isn't supported at all.
I just tried it out with Hollow Knight, and if I didn't just immediately boot up the actual game afterwards for comparison I'd almost swear the was no input lag. Image quality seemed great as well... Impressive stuff.
I've been trying to find one too. There's some links on the official site that say like "Click here to see the games!" but then just takes you to a search box... -_-
