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I'm considering buying either an Nvidia Shield or Steam Link. I'm leaning towards the Shield, but I've noticed that most of my games aren't supported by GeForce Experience. Does this mean I won't be able to play them on the Shield?

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You can play most games on the Shield without them on GFE, but you'll have to manage the settings yourself.

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4 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

yup 

You can play nearly every game on a Shield.

 

Except Arma. I'm not saying that it's bad, because it is bad, but I'm saying that it won't run at a good frame-rate.

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3 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

can you now wow last time i tried it loaded but that it kept crashing, they fixed it i am assuming. 

GFE crashed or the games?

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1 minute ago, nerdslayer1 said:

both depending on the game i bought it almost 6 months ago, steam games kept crashing at first, it ended up being an android tv system. now its collecting dust after i built a HTPC. 

Ahh. 1st gen or 2nd gen. My 1st gen had issues, but they were fixed with some revisions to GFE.

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Thanks, you guys!

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Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor

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2x Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Western Digital BLACK SERIES 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card

EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Cooler Master N400 ATX Mid Tower Case

Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer

TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter

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