Show HN: Open-source GeForce NOW alternative with Stadia's social features
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#2Does anyone have experience using Nucleus co-op for remote play? It'd be cool to make use of this huge collection of games which have been sent into running multi-instance with a hijacked network stack & spoofed APIs, to make use of it for game streaming with friends.
Re: Show HN: Open-source GeForce NOW alternative with Stadia's social features
#3This is super cool!
A few questions:
1. just how low is the latency? "Netris delivers a zero-latency gaming experience that won't eat up your data plan." What does this mean? Wouldn't the latency be at least from my computer, to Netris server, to the game server?
I would assume you can't play FPS/MOBA games on these?
2. "10,000+ games supported" "games that come with their own launchers are not yet supported" I'm curious about the technical differences between steam games and games with their own launcher. I guess I was assuming that you're more or less just pixel streaming to me(?)
3. how does it compare to GeforceNOW? Would love to see one of those long charts with checklists.
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#4Beautiful, and agpl3 too! Can't wait to try it.
I think self hosted game streaming is a field that could use a lot more attention, from consumers as well. I set up moonlight/sunshine on my pc and now I can play cyberpunk on my 3080 machine from basically anywhere in the country, on my phone! Just got some gamesir controller thing to turn it into a sort of Nintendo switch type device and away I go. Actually, I have basically every emulator I could get my hands on as well, so my phone basically is a Nintendo switch so long as I have a decent internet connection. That's super cool to access my game library from any device that can run moonlight! (That's many devices btw. I recently found a moonlight client on the 3ds homebrew store. Haven't tried it yet but gives you an idea how absurdly widespread it is)
This stadia thing seems more about streaming through a browser so I'm really curious how things like Bluetooth controllers will work, whether there's onscreen controls available for mobile devices, that kind of thing. Will try it and find out! I REALLY love that it seems like I can share with my friends, as a jellyfin, audiobookshelf, konga, navidrome, and calibreweb / opds enthusiast, if I can add videogames to the mix that would be amazing. I already share my steam library through family sharing with some friends cause why not? Otherwise it's going to waste!
Re: Show HN: Open-source GeForce NOW alternative with Stadia's social features
#5Being exclusive to Nvidia GPUs doesn't sound like a good idea. What makes it rely on CUDA anyway?
It's cool that it's using Wine though. From these cloud services like Amazon's Luna or Geforce Now, none are running Linux, so this is interesting.
No idea why Stadia couldn't do the same and tried to reinvent the wheel with Windows ABI translation at some point before it shut down.
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#6One of the benefits of GeForce now is im pretty sure they are subsidizing it. I get unlimited gaming on a 4080 for USD$20.
I have a 4080 at home and I can't get the same latency/frame rate with Parsec even though I have a gigabit connection.
Cool project, actual experience unsure.
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#7This is super cool! A few questions: 1. just how low is the latency? "Netris delivers a zero-latency gaming experience that won't eat up your data plan." What does this mean? Wouldn't the latency be at least from my computer, to Netris server, to the game server? I would assume you can't play FPS/MOBA games on these? 2. "10,000+ games supported" "games that come with their own launchers are not yet supported" I'm cur…
As a GFN user myself the biggest single problem is publishers getting a say in whether I can run their game on the service. With self hosted solutions like Netris you don't have those limitations because they're not baked into the software. In terms of other differences I'd imagine that you would end up paying more for this in the cloud. As someone else has mentioned, NVIDIA are likely to be subsidizing access to their GPUs.
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#8One of the benefits of GeForce now is im pretty sure they are subsidizing it. I get unlimited gaming on a 4080 for USD$20. I have a 4080 at home and I can't get the same latency/frame rate with Parsec even though I have a gigabit connection. Cool project, actual experience unsure.
I get better latency and frame rate than GeForce Now on a 2660 using moonlight. Using h.265 or AV1 is necessary. I'm not familiar with Presec, but I'll bet it's defaulting to h.264.
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#9Beautiful, and agpl3 too! Can't wait to try it. I think self hosted game streaming is a field that could use a lot more attention, from consumers as well. I set up moonlight/sunshine on my pc and now I can play cyberpunk on my 3080 machine from basically anywhere in the country, on my phone! Just got some gamesir controller thing to turn it into a sort of Nintendo switch type device and away I go. Actually, I have ba…
Really nice. What is your latency?
Re: Show HN: Open-source GeForce NOW alternative with Stadia's social features
#10Beautiful, and agpl3 too! Can't wait to try it. I think self hosted game streaming is a field that could use a lot more attention, from consumers as well. I set up moonlight/sunshine on my pc and now I can play cyberpunk on my 3080 machine from basically anywhere in the country, on my phone! Just got some gamesir controller thing to turn it into a sort of Nintendo switch type device and away I go. Actually, I have ba…
"and agpl3 too!" If you don't mind, I'm curious what you mean by this :) most service hosting providers I'm aware of (and worked with in the past) run away from AGPL3 software due to the viral nature of the license.