GeForce Now: A Review
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GeForce Now: A Review
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#2Follow-up to: "(Not) getting a new computer"[1].
[1] https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/08/22/not-getting-a-new-com... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32553017 (58pts, 2d ago, 90comments)
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#3Is this Scalzi the author?
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#4GeForce Now has a free tier so you can try it without spending money: The session is limited to 1 hour and there is a queue when many people want to play, but otherwise it's the same you get with 1 tier up. Worth giving it a shot, I was surprised how well I could play Witcher 3 on a FireTV Stick plugged into a TV.
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#5I tested out GeForce Now and Stadia two years ago and decided fairly quickly to build a desktop machine instead. Turns out that lots of PC games work really well on desktop Linux these days!
The author discusses his internet connection, but for me even with a 500mbit connection and ~10ms ping to NYC area data centers I felt the video compression artifacts and periodic stutters were too noticeable. I also had some input glitches that were basically impossible to diagnose and made certain games hard to play.
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#6My experience with GeForce Now is that despite having fiber internet and WiFi 6, games are still unplayably laggy. I also wasn't able to play Cities Skylines, because none of my Steam Workshop mods would install.
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#7Is this Scalzi the author?
Byline is “by John Scalzi”.
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#8Is this Scalzi the author?
Yes.
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#9FWIW I’ve had a blast with GFN, but I have fiber internet and use a wired Ethernet connection to the router. It’s not very good over wifi IMO. I would recommend it but only for those with great bandwidth and a wired connection.
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#10I found that it worked really well on the free tier. There are hiccups and i can’t tell why my isp gives me 1-5% packet loss but I really like that it kicks me out after an hour so I have to have reasonable play sessions. Wait times are rare the service is too good for a free tier