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I've used it for about 14 months extensively - I wasn't able to upgrade my rig when cyberpunk 2077 came out. It was brilliant - I played the game at max setting

I've used it for about 14 months extensively - I wasn't able to upgrade my rig when cyberpunk 2077 came out. It was brilliant - I played the game at max settings, looked beautiful, not a care in The world. Then I used it too for some turn based / strategy / rpg games as I could play them on laptop, desktop etc, and it was easy to try games without bothering with downloading and local storage. It was sufficiently excellent experience that even once I got an upgraded gaming computer, I still kept the basic foundation paid package due to sheer convenience. It's just great to try and play games with low frequency without installation / configuration / troubleshooting hassle. I have also found it consistently less glitchy over last year to stream a game from cloud to my media computers via geforce now, than from my next room gaming rig via steam link... Which speaks more bad things of steam link itself, but also I think at least some good things of geforce now. Note that I have Ethernet for my laptop and desktop. I can not speak to latency via wireless - my assumption would be "frustrating" so I didn't even test.

exodust 4y ago
How is latency avoided? I've not paid attention to streaming games or looked how it works. If your mouse input needs to go via the internet to control the 3d character on screen, how is there not a noticeable lag compared to a local rendering of the game?
- solarkraft 4y ago
  I think networks are simply that good now.
  - dbttdft 4y ago
    They aren't. The people who advocate stream gaming are precisely like this guy in the article who bought 400 games and never played any of them.
- NikolaNovak 4y ago
  Partially it's modern speedy networks; but partially it's also the player. There are people who need (and people who believe they need) 165HZ or heck 240HZ screen, 8000Hz Mouse, and notice every millisecond of lag. And there are people like me and apparently Scalzi :-). My experience with GeforceNow was perfect. I'm sure somebody with better reflexes and more into competitive multiplayer would find it complete unacceptable.
  - NikolaNovak 4y ago
    Just measured, and I have 10-12ms network latency end to end, from my computer to the Geforce servers. There may be some fuzz factor and complications, but again, for me it's neglible.

exodust 4y ago

How is latency avoided? I've not paid attention to streaming games or looked how it works. If your mouse input needs to go via the internet to control the 3d character on screen, how is there not a noticeable lag compared to a local rendering of the game?

solarkraft 4y ago
I think networks are simply that good now.
- dbttdft 4y ago
  They aren't. The people who advocate stream gaming are precisely like this guy in the article who bought 400 games and never played any of them.
NikolaNovak 4y ago
Partially it's modern speedy networks; but partially it's also the player. There are people who need (and people who believe they need) 165HZ or heck 240HZ screen, 8000Hz Mouse, and notice every millisecond of lag. And there are people like me and apparently Scalzi :-). My experience with GeforceNow was perfect. I'm sure somebody with better reflexes and more into competitive multiplayer would find it complete unacceptable.
- NikolaNovak 4y ago
  Just measured, and I have 10-12ms network latency end to end, from my computer to the Geforce servers. There may be some fuzz factor and complications, but again, for me it's neglible.