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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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I found it on the wayback machine, but it's underwhelming af...
I was able to download my cloud save for Doom. No problem. It all interfaces with Steam.
I believe it was said you an restart a session straight afterwards which isn't as bad.
so i set it up on my pc... grab my chromebook
I haven't tried myself... but have you tried downloading it through the Android Playstore? (Does your Chromebook support that?)
Also maybe you can search for the apk. If your Chromebook supports Android apps.
Okay that's pretty damn good, thanks.
I mean 6 hours is a long time but I wonder how it handles things when time's up...if it just drops with no warning that could be bad.
There's a way to do this without a subscription using your PC as a host isn't there? Moonlight was it? Or was that restricted to local network...
Thank you for this, was a pain using that search box. This feels a litle more realistic than 'your whole Steam library!'.
I have a decent amount of games on Steam and EGS because of Humble Bundle and the free games on EGS. But I don't actually have a good gaming PC. In fact, my primary PC that I use every day doesn't even have a dedicated GPU.
My question is, are the games streaming from my PC to my mobile device (like Remote Play), or do they stream from gaming PC servers hosted by Nvidia (like Stadia or Playstation Now)? Because if it's the latter, then that's huge. People wouldn't have to wait for Nvidia to have their own sales or double dip on games; they would just have to supply their own games. But, on the other hand, I don't know how Nvidia could handle server costs only with the $5 a month subscription, with no other sources of revenue, when places like Google get $10 a month PLUS a portion of the cost of the games.
My question is, are the games streaming from my PC to my mobile device (like Remote Play), or do they stream from gaming PC servers hosted by Nvidia (like Stadia or Playstation Now)? Because if it's the latter, then that's huge. People wouldn't have to wait for Nvidia to have their own sales or double dip on games; they would just have to supply their own games. But, on the other hand, I don't know how Nvidia could handle server costs only with the $5 a month subscription, with no other sources of revenue, when places like Google get $10 a month PLUS a portion of the cost of the games.
That old list is inaccurate; if it's the one I'm thinking of, it lists Tomb Raider games, which do *not* currently work on GeForce Now. Here's what I wrote in my feature-length look at Ars today:
Also, once you build a library in the GeForce Now system, you can't go through and sort it using any filters. It lists every game "chronologically," based on when you added or last played it. And you can't get a text list, only massive icons. It's infuriatingly ancient in practice. I have nearly 200 games in my GFN library, which is currently a nuisance to sort.
It's the latter and yep it's fucking awesome if you have a potato pc.
It doesn't. I've played it on beta for my shield for a good long time; peoples reactions to this service is going to take a turn after they've actually tried the service itself. The ONLY thing that this has over stadia is the games library. Even then it's not all encompassing.
Say what you will about Stadia, but I've never not been able to be up and running in a game within 30 seconds of clicking on it. I realize that they're probably getting hammered right now, but that's been spinning for me for over 5 minutes, and that's AFTER I signed up for Founder's access. I had that happen to me numerous times during the beta as well. And as I've documented in other threads, once I actually get an instance, I'll have to spend another two minutes manually typing in my complex Steam password and dealing with SteamGuard, a process which seems to only intermittently cache itself from session-to-session. Nvidia has a lot of work to do to make the user experience for this acceptable, especially as a portable gaming solution, and I was hoping that they were going to do so before the official release....
it used to allow you to download and play any games on that list but the ability to do that was removed, you can start up a different supported game from there though if you wish
it works the same way as xcloud, stadia work. that's the reason they can promise 1080p 60 with rtx on to customers.
They've had remote play for a while already
As a big Stadia supporter, this is a much more compelling value for the vast majority of people (or at least the vast majority of ResetEra users, anyway). There are several things this does better than Stadia and some things it does worse. I know a lot of people are going to be understandably excited to be able to play games in their existing libraries, but I don't have titles purchased in any of those services so that's a moot point for me. The queueing system sounds... problematic.
Moonlight Game Streaming: Play Your PC Games Remotely
Moonlight allows you to play your PC games remotely on almost any device.
moonlight-stream.org
- Free and open source
- 4K
- 120fps
- Local network or over the internet
- PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Raspberry Pi, Vita, Chromebook, etc
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This is my biggest issue with the service so far. I'd love to be able to just log into my various accounts and the app show me what I can and can't stream. I have over a thousand games across Steam, EGS, Battle.net etc. When I load up the Geforce NOW application and it asks me what I want to play - and I have to manually search for a game that I remember is on one of my accounts and add it to my Geforce library - I freeze up. It's a bad user experience.
Moonlight Game Streaming: Play Your PC Games Remotely
Moonlight allows you to play your PC games remotely on almost any device.Uses your own PC but no waiting or login hassle etc. I've used it locally before and it worked great, haven't tried it remotely but I just got a really good connection.
- Free
- 4K
- 120fps
- Local network or over the internet
- Open Source
- PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Raspberry Pi (vita too)
Moonlight is based on Nvidia's streaming (remote play) service. Nvidia's GameStream is free as well. This service that is being talked about in the OP however is the Stadia, PS Now, xCloud service (don't need good local hardware to play)
For people with crappy PCs, this is useless.Moonlight Game Streaming: Play Your PC Games Remotely
Moonlight allows you to play your PC games remotely on almost any device.Uses your own PC but no waiting or login hassle etc. I've used it locally before and it worked great, haven't tried it remotely but I just got a really good connection.
- Free
- 4K
- 120fps
- Local network or over the internet
- Open Source
- PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Raspberry Pi (vita too)
GeForce Now is much more appealing because the games run on Nvidia's own super PCs. Too bad about the limited game compatibility, though.
I'm getting it set up now. This is insane. It actually just straight up runs Stream? This is awesome.
Just saw the Ars article about not every game working. That's weird if it's just running Steam on Windows.
Just saw the Ars article about not every game working. That's weird if it's just running Steam on Windows.
You can add "Steam" to your library. Just search for it in the search bar.
it's a shame that it will take 2 1/2 centuries for this service to come to Brazil, more or less the same time it will take for this country to be civilized... oh well
Its better than Stadia but game streaming in itself isn't good.
I guess this has an appeal for people who don't want to throw cash at a top of the line gaming PC though
I guess this has an appeal for people who don't want to throw cash at a top of the line gaming PC though
So i just tried Pathfinder: Kingmaker on my Phone and it was not a bad experience. It's of course a little fiddly just controlling it with a touch screen but i didn't have any problems getting the game to do what i wanted. Reading was a little hard because the fonts are very small but zooming in did remedy that.
Quality of the stream was also ok. I had some packet loss warnings but the game itself felt smooth and i did not notice any lag in the audio.
Next i will try a faster paced game.
Quality of the stream was also ok. I had some packet loss warnings but the game itself felt smooth and i did not notice any lag in the audio.
Next i will try a faster paced game.
You can accomplish the same thing with this but for free and to a higher standard if you have a decent PC with an Nvidia card (and a decent connection for remote connections instead of just locally). Nvidia's implementation is limited to the shield and I don't think it allows remote connections.
If you don't have a decent PC with an nvidia gpu, I can see this being useful. Maybe for AMD users or people grabbing free epic store games for the future.
Only other advantage I can see with this subscription is that you don't need the games installed locally I think.
Yeah, that's the thing you need a decent PC (though mine is like 6 years old and works for this - I can do 1080p 60fps no problem even in RDR2 - but not raytracing...though I'll be upgrading soon) ... and to set up a way to turn your computer on/off remotely, which should be doable I think, will look into it now that I've got the connection for it.
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I just updated the Ars article with regional availability and Founders Tier pricing info. If OP wants to update, here ya go:
I think I'll wait a few days for everything to die down before giving the free 1-hour service a shot. I'm interested to see what improvements have been made since I last tried it 3-4 months ago.
I'm hoping Wreckfest and Darksiders 3 are still available to play, as those were the 2 I spent the most time on during its Beta phase. Hopefully the performance has improved. Wreckfest's framerate tended to nosedive during pile-ups, but with the recent upgrade it might not.
I'm also interested to see if I still get packet-loss problems on my 68mbps connection.
Tonight though, is all about Zombie Army 4. But that's a topic for another thread.
I'm hoping Wreckfest and Darksiders 3 are still available to play, as those were the 2 I spent the most time on during its Beta phase. Hopefully the performance has improved. Wreckfest's framerate tended to nosedive during pile-ups, but with the recent upgrade it might not.
I'm also interested to see if I still get packet-loss problems on my 68mbps connection.
Tonight though, is all about Zombie Army 4. But that's a topic for another thread.
