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I'm surprised to see this hasn't been mentioned yet (at least not here):

 

nVidia has launched its cloud-based gaming platform GeForce NOW. Read more on:

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/02/04/geforce-now-pc-gaming/

 

I don't know how well this service will work if a user doesn't have an nVidia video card in their system. -> Linus? ;)

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8 minutes ago, Dutch_Master said:

I don't know how well this service will work if a user doesn't have an nVidia video card in their system.

I don't get why this would matter. It's cloud-based.

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to be fair google stadia was a fail, at least here in Germany because of the latency of our internet. And it says on their page that it also works on macs, so I guess you can use it with everything...

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25 minutes ago, Dutch_Master said:

I'm surprised to see this hasn't been mentioned yet (at least not here):

 

nVidia has launched its cloud-based gaming platform GeForce NOW. Read more on:

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/02/04/geforce-now-pc-gaming/

 

I don't know how well this service will work if a user doesn't have an nVidia video card in their system. -> Linus? ;)

You do need a videocard to decode the stream coming from geforce now, but it can be pretty  weak i think

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28 minutes ago, Mirano said:

You do need a videocard to decode the stream coming from geforce now, but it can be pretty  weak i think

Before I got a decent computer at the end of last year, I used an old AMD APU from 2012 (A10-5800k) with GeForce NOW to play newer games that I otherwise wouldn't be able to and never had any issues. So long as the computer isn't a complete potato (it can play YouTube videos) and you have decent (and consistent) internet, everything works fine.

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33 minutes ago, Mirano said:

You do need a videocard to decode the stream coming from geforce now, but it can be pretty  weak i think

GPU requirements are 

-GPU that at least supports DirectX 11
-NVIDIA GeForce 600 series or newer
-AMD Radeon HD 3000 series or newer
-Intel HD Graphics 2000 series or newer

 

I tried it in beta and it wasn't a good experience playing 1080p game on 80mbps connection. I stopped after 10minutes.

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Pleasantly surprised at how they're monetizing this. I expected the free tier to have limitations on framerate/resolution/game availability or some other nonsense. Just limiting you to an hour at a time isn't so bad, especially since you should be able to just start another session once that hour expires - tedious, but not too bad. I also expected the premium tier pricing to be much higher, but it also seems surprisingly reasonable at $4.99/mo  - for now at least, since it seems like it will go up after this first year.

 

4 minutes ago, Dezz said:

I tried it in beta and it wasn't a good experience playing 1080p game on 80mbps connection. I stopped after 10minutes.

Maybe an issue with your ISP and/or how far you were away from one of their servers. I had no issues myself with just a ~30mbps connection at 1080p/60fps.

 

At least all the important features are free, so people in the market for this sort of service can try it out themselves to see if their internet connection can handle it.

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39 minutes ago, Danioki said:

oh....

 

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Joining to the same club... I guess they don't have any data centers in Europe either...

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15 minutes ago, LeSheen said:

I thought this was out for years already?

As a beta, yes. This is now the public launch.

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14 minutes ago, LeSheen said:

I thought this was out for years already?

That was in beta. 

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2 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Joining to the same club... I guess they don't have any data centers in Europe either...

The list of currently-supported regions is:

Caribbean: Anguilla, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Turks and Caicos, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands

Middle East: Israel, Turkey

North Africa: Morocco, Tunisia

North America: Canada, Mexico, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, United States

Europe: Aland Islands (Finland), Albania, Andora, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canary Islands (Spain), Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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1 minute ago, WereCatf said:

The list of currently-supported regions is:

Caribbean: Anguilla, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Turks and Caicos, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands

Middle East: Israel, Turkey

North Africa: Morocco, Tunisia

North America: Canada, Mexico, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, United States

Europe: Aland Islands (Finland), Albania, Andora, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canary Islands (Spain), Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

ahaha no love for South America.

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46 minutes ago, Dezz said:

I tried it in beta and it wasn't a good experience playing 1080p game on 80mbps connection. I stopped after 10minutes.

That's great news for me and my 20mbps connection. 

 

I'll give it a try anyways though. With just 5 bucks a month you'd have to play for over 16 years to get the money of a 2080Ti back, lol. 

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1 hour ago, Dutch_Master said:

I'm surprised to see this hasn't been mentioned yet (at least not here):

 

nVidia has launched its cloud-based gaming platform GeForce NOW. Read more on:

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/02/04/geforce-now-pc-gaming/

 

I don't know how well this service will work if a user doesn't have an nVidia video card in their system. -> Linus? ;)

the thing about cloud gaming is the people with bad internet or the server is far away and they are not in the right region

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Just now, FloRolf said:

That's great news for me and my 20mbps connection. 

 

I'll give it a try anyways though. With just 5 bucks a month you'd have to play for over 16 years to get the money of a 2080Ti back, lol. 

The fact that the guy you quoted has 80Mbps bandwidth doesn't really mean much, if their latency sucks. You can have gigabits of bandwidth and still have shit-poor latency. As for your 20Mbps, well, NVIDIA does quote 15Mbps as the minimum.

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4 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

The list of currently-supported regions is:

Caribbean: Anguilla, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Turks and Caicos, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands

Middle East: Israel, Turkey

North Africa: Morocco, Tunisia

North America: Canada, Mexico, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, United States

Europe: Aland Islands (Finland), Albania, Andora, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canary Islands (Spain), Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Is this a fucking joke? You know where GeForce Now is available? Literally in every single country bordering Slovenia. Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Italy, just not Slovenia... The country is so freaking small they could just toss it into either of four bordering countries and difference in ping would be maybe 10ms... Sigh.

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14 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

The list of currently-supported regions is:

Caribbean: Anguilla, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Turks and Caicos, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands

Middle East: Israel, Turkey

North Africa: Morocco, Tunisia

North America: Canada, Mexico, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, United States

Europe: Aland Islands (Finland), Albania, Andora, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canary Islands (Spain), Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Asia? is that some kind of chicken recipe?

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I, personally, absolutely love game-streaming. I travel two-three times a year to the other side of Finland and I obviously can't always drag my desktop with me, so I just have to make do with now-old laptop that can't play latest-and-greatest games, let alone at high-detail settings, so being able to stream gameplay from a more powerful device over the Internet is just fricking fabulous. What's also extremely useful and what I so far haven't seen anyone else mention is that....well, since your device only has to decode the video and display it and doesn't actually have to use the CPU or GPU for anything else, you get hugely better battery-life out of your old laptop/phone/tablet/whatever as well!

 

I've been using Steam's Remote Play over 4G LTE mobile-connection at the remote end and at home I have fiber, and Remote Play has been working like a champ. I haven't had any need to use xCloud, Geforce Now or such, but at the same time, I don't expect the experience to be much different as the concept is still the same.

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1 hour ago, Josh__ said:

I don't think we are ready for cloud gaming yet  

 

 

bro i got shitty internet 60mbps 4g 

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Just now, Josh__ said:

I don't think we are ready for cloud gaming yet  

Speak for yourself, mate. I've been doing cloud-gaming for years.

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later today i'll try with a vpn and see, jejeje. there are some games that don't need good latencies.

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1 minute ago, WereCatf said:

Speak for yourself, mate. I've been doing cloud-gaming for years.

woah you mad bro 

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