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Reading this really points out to me how killer of a deal that GeforceNow is. I truly don't understand why more publishers don't allow their games on the platf

Reading this really points out to me how killer of a deal that GeforceNow is. I truly don't understand why more publishers don't allow their games on the platform.

eric__cartman 4y ago
It's not a killer deal for the consumer. That's just Nvidia fucking you over either way and still profiting off it. The market is not only bad in the high end, but there aren't any ~$200 value oriented graphics cards that provide significant upgrades over past generations. Just now the GTX 1060 has stepped down from being the most popular card in Steam's hardware survey just to be replaced by the GTX 1650, a much newer card that costs about the same and performs about the same. And with less VRAM!
dfghjjbhvg 4y ago
because they all learned from stadia and know how crappy and useless remote streaming of input/graphics is for most games. this tech is bad. awful. only worth for casual games which are already well served by comon hardware localy. its all a ruse to try to sell idle capacity for their gpu farms because AI model training hype never materialized
- 0-_-0 4y ago
  I tried geforce now, it's amazing, lag is almost imperceptible with the 8ms ping I had.
  - Gigachad 4y ago
    I also tried it on a gigabit network and it was essentially unusable. Constant frame drops and audio stuttering. Even for casual gaming it was horrible. Can't imagine something multi player.
    - nottorp 4y ago
      You talking about your local network or your internet connection? It works just fine(tm) on the two fiber connections i've tried, one 500 mbps only, not 1 gbps. It only uses like 10 mbps for 1080. It's the latency and packet loss that kills you, it's unusable on wifi going though the same fiber for example.
    - arecurrence 4y ago
      There’s a lot of bad networks out there. I won a number of Fortnite battle royals testing this and it was rock solid 120 fps, barely any detectable latency at the 10 ms ping I was getting. The lack of noise actually made me prefer it over my gaming box. It’s a real home run for people fortunate enough to have excellent network connections to nvidia’s data centres.
    - 0-_-0 4y ago
      Did you have a gigabit wired connection to the server?
geraldhh 4y ago
i would suspect that they either fear a loss of profit (b/c platform cut) or reputation (because latency/jitter from bad connection will be wrongly blamed on the game rather than the platform)
pdntspa 4y ago
I am so glad this notion of renting your games is dying. People need to own their bits.
wonnage 4y ago
Having what feels like 100ms of input delay at a minimum is pretty awful. Idk if there's some magic way to speculatively render extra frames so that input is resolved locally

Reading this really points out to me how killer of a deal that GeforceNow is. I truly don't understand why more publishers don't allow their games on the platform.

eric__cartman 4y ago

It's not a killer deal for the consumer. That's just Nvidia fucking you over either way and still profiting off it. The market is not only bad in the high end, but there aren't any ~$200 value oriented graphics cards that provide significant upgrades over past generations. Just now the GTX 1060 has stepped down from being the most popular card in Steam's hardware survey just to be replaced by the GTX 1650, a much newer card that costs about the same and performs about the same. And with less VRAM!

dfghjjbhvg 4y ago

because they all learned from stadia and know how crappy and useless remote streaming of input/graphics is for most games. this tech is bad. awful. only worth for casual games which are already well served by comon hardware localy. its all a ruse to try to sell idle capacity for their gpu farms because AI model training hype never materialized

0-_-0 4y ago
I tried geforce now, it's amazing, lag is almost imperceptible with the 8ms ping I had.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  I also tried it on a gigabit network and it was essentially unusable. Constant frame drops and audio stuttering. Even for casual gaming it was horrible. Can't imagine something multi player.
  - nottorp 4y ago
    You talking about your local network or your internet connection? It works just fine(tm) on the two fiber connections i've tried, one 500 mbps only, not 1 gbps. It only uses like 10 mbps for 1080. It's the latency and packet loss that kills you, it's unusable on wifi going though the same fiber for example.
  - arecurrence 4y ago
    There’s a lot of bad networks out there. I won a number of Fortnite battle royals testing this and it was rock solid 120 fps, barely any detectable latency at the 10 ms ping I was getting. The lack of noise actually made me prefer it over my gaming box. It’s a real home run for people fortunate enough to have excellent network connections to nvidia’s data centres.
  - 0-_-0 4y ago
    Did you have a gigabit wired connection to the server?

geraldhh 4y ago

i would suspect that they either fear a loss of profit (b/c platform cut) or reputation (because latency/jitter from bad connection will be wrongly blamed on the game rather than the platform)

pdntspa 4y ago

I am so glad this notion of renting your games is dying. People need to own their bits.

wonnage 4y ago

Having what feels like 100ms of input delay at a minimum is pretty awful. Idk if there's some magic way to speculatively render extra frames so that input is resolved locally