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You must not be sensitive to lag or low latencies. Some players have no issue playing a 30fps games with dips into the 10s for example. Others do. For me, it's

You must not be sensitive to lag or low latencies. Some players have no issue playing a 30fps games with dips into the 10s for example. Others do. For me, it's just simply not up to the quality I can enjoy the game at.

vel0city 3y ago
I am pretty sensitive to it. It never dropped into low framerates. Sometimes I'd get a quick blast of compression noise but not often. It's not 4K 120FPS, but on a 1080p laptop the quality was fine. Maybe unacceptable when playing on a 70" TV, but a 14" laptop or a 1920x1200 27" screen it's fine. Not as nice as natively rendered, but way nicer than what that $300 laptop could have done on its own! It never dropped into the 30s, I consider framerates like that unplayable.
- danielbln 3y ago
  Compression artifacts, spotty connections etc. all of those can be issues with remote gaming. What is never an issue is framerate or graphical fidelity (minus video compression artifacts), which makes sense, considering you tend to have a nice machine remotely that plays your game (e.g. a 4080 on GeForce Now).
  - vel0city 3y ago
    One thing I noticed was loading times on Starfield were even faster than on my desktop with an NVMe drive.
danielbln 3y ago
Cyberpunk at 1440p, 75Mbit/s and 120hz/fps feels pretty darn responsive, streaming in from GeForce Now. A local rig will beat it of course, can't cheat lights peed, but if you're close to a datacenter the added lag is negligible, especially if you can get the video stream at 120hz.
- didibus 3y ago
  Even if it's 120 fps you can still have high latencies, because the time from button press to the next frame acting on that button press can be slow. The game can stream at 120fps, but take extra like to register a jump for example. Again, you might just not be sensitive to that. There's also compression artifacts and bitrate that can make fine details already coarse and all that, even if it's 4k. That's what some won't find to be an issue and others will.
  - danielbln 3y ago
    Oh definitely, everyone's experience will be different, not just due to their location in regards to the Nvidia datacenters, but also personal sensitivity to latency and such.

vel0city 3y ago

I am pretty sensitive to it. It never dropped into low framerates. Sometimes I'd get a quick blast of compression noise but not often. It's not 4K 120FPS, but on a 1080p laptop the quality was fine. Maybe unacceptable when playing on a 70" TV, but a 14" laptop or a 1920x1200 27" screen it's fine. Not as nice as natively rendered, but way nicer than what that $300 laptop could have done on its own! It never dropped into the 30s, I consider framerates like that unplayable.

danielbln 3y ago
Compression artifacts, spotty connections etc. all of those can be issues with remote gaming. What is never an issue is framerate or graphical fidelity (minus video compression artifacts), which makes sense, considering you tend to have a nice machine remotely that plays your game (e.g. a 4080 on GeForce Now).
- vel0city 3y ago
  One thing I noticed was loading times on Starfield were even faster than on my desktop with an NVMe drive.

danielbln 3y ago

Cyberpunk at 1440p, 75Mbit/s and 120hz/fps feels pretty darn responsive, streaming in from GeForce Now. A local rig will beat it of course, can't cheat lights peed, but if you're close to a datacenter the added lag is negligible, especially if you can get the video stream at 120hz.

didibus 3y ago
Even if it's 120 fps you can still have high latencies, because the time from button press to the next frame acting on that button press can be slow. The game can stream at 120fps, but take extra like to register a jump for example. Again, you might just not be sensitive to that. There's also compression artifacts and bitrate that can make fine details already coarse and all that, even if it's 4k. That's what some won't find to be an issue and others will.
- danielbln 3y ago
  Oh definitely, everyone's experience will be different, not just due to their location in regards to the Nvidia datacenters, but also personal sensitivity to latency and such.