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Post by stuz359 on Oct 21, 2021 19:16:28 GMT
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Post by Danno on Oct 21, 2021 20:20:31 GMT
I'm sure geforce now was some marketing campaign of theirs in the 90s or something
Cool idea but means little while the chip shortage rolls on. Bancrypto so we can upgrade again imo. Bet on Sports instead you stupid cunts.
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Post by dfunked on Oct 21, 2021 20:26:28 GMT
Danno - it means you can run games on any old shit so if anything it's very useful to have while the chip shortage continues. I used to use Now on my shield TV and played a big chunk of Control, AC Odyssey and Cyberpunk on it from my couch, as well as Destiny 2 before that got upgraded for the Series X. Great service, although it did struggle a bit during Cyberpunk's launch window and they ended up downgrading rigs to cope with it.
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Post by Danno on Oct 21, 2021 21:39:14 GMT
Danno - it means you can run games on any old shit so if anything it's very useful to have while the chip shortage continues. I used to use Now on my shield TV and played a big chunk of Control, AC Odyssey and Cyberpunk on it from my couch, as well as Destiny 2 before that got upgraded for the Series X. Great service, although it did struggle a bit during Cyberpunk's launch window and they ended up downgrading rigs to cope with it. I'll look into it, thanks for educating my jaded noggin  |
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Post by muddyfunster on Oct 29, 2021 11:36:00 GMT
I had Geforce now for a while before building my PC. Generally fairly impressive but I found that you really did need a cabled 40Mbps+ connection for any consistent performance which was actually a bit of a pain for me. The lag for shooters was too annoying but for something slower paced it was absolutely fine. Also, monitoring is a strange one as the compression was more obvious on my large TV but may laptop was too small and I didn't really have a screen that was in the middle.
It seems best suited to reviving old desktops that would otherwise be too slow to run modern games.
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zagibu
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Post by zagibu on Oct 29, 2021 12:09:16 GMT
If you are sensitive to input lag, forget it. Otherwise it can be a good alternative to an own rig for certain genres at least.
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Post by muddyfunster on Oct 29, 2021 17:03:08 GMT
Disco Elysium was a good fit.
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Post by lexw on Nov 1, 2021 19:05:28 GMT
If you are sensitive to input lag, forget it. Otherwise it can be a good alternative to an own rig for certain genres at least. Agree. I've used Geforce Now pretty extensively. Despite improvement, it's probably the worst streaming service that I've used in terms of image quality and reliability, and the input lag is noticeable on action games (like, if you're the kind of person who notices that sort of thing, which not everyone does, thankfully). Also it logs you out annoyingly fast. That sounds like a put-down, but I have a subscription to Geforce Now, and don't plan on ending it soon. Why? Because it lets me play most of my Steam library that I'd actually want to remote-play, like CK3 or PF:WotR. The other ones don't do that. Stadia, which has better image quality, massively better responsiveness, and has been more reliable (for me) is particularly obnoxious in terms of how it works. I definitely don't see a 3080 mode replacing normal hardware any time soon, because whatever the normal mode is (2070? It is RTX), it's nowhere near good enough to make action games feel as good as on a normal PC/console. And whilst Stadia was better responsiveness and image-wise, even it was noticeably behind, especially in dark scenes - which are hyper-common on PC (also Stadia doesn't have RTX etc. - it's similar to the final Xbox One model in real performance). |
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