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My 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.
I, urgently, must play the latest AAA extravaganza, again...
...I've only $30 to my name, again. I'm collecting my family's supply of $2 coins, again.
I'd be all over it.
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Tons of software works REALLY well on Geforce now. Asynchronous, turn based games. XCOM: Enemy Unknown is one.
Server side rendering latency w/ monitor is a fascinating problem. I found the idea incredibly technically interesting.
NOT so much for me, an engineer who one click buys electronics.
I'm not the audience.
My 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.
I 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 inp…
I still run windows in a VFIO setup but Linux is really good for gaming these days. Was even playing Cyberpunk on the release day!
If I wanted to spend a lot of time playing games, especially multi-player ones, I don't think it would be a good substitute for using my own machine, but for being able to occasionally dip a toe into a game when I get the itch, its a pretty good deal.
My 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.
It's better if you have Ethernet, that way I get no stutter and the lag is almost unnoticeable (I get 9ms ping which is lower than the duration between 2 monitor refreshes at 60Hz)
I have also found it consistently less glitchy over last year to stream a game from cloud to my media computers via geforce now, than from my next room gaming rig via steam link... Which speaks more bad things of steam link itself, but also I think at least some good things of geforce now.
Note that I have Ethernet for my laptop and desktop. I can not speak to latency via wireless - my assumption would be "frustrating" so I didn't even test.
I 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 inp…
People are talking about turn based games but my experience is that it's flawless and indistinguishable from native in twitch games like fortnite and counterstrike. But then again I live on the East Coast pretty close to a datacenter and I'm on fiber, so obviously this won't be the case for people in rural areas. But for people who are in situations like mine, it's great.
I'm surprised he even bothered trying the service let alone he found it playable. A rural area with 25-40mbps with someone using the internet at the same time ( let alone netflix!) is basically worst case scenario. If you are playing near a datacenter with reasonable internet your experience will be significantly better. Geforce now is technically very good when configured properly; it is similar to parsec (which is probably state of the art).
Worth pointing out: the Geforce now library is not great and and I wouldn't hold my breath on it improving too much. Most interested publishers have already signed up and the rest are either commited to other platforms or aren't willing to choose nvidia over other monetization options.