![]() Having RTX 4080 visuals on a Steam Deck, with a measurable increase in battery life, or running on a weak-heart $500 office laptop, or streamed directly to a TV. The hardware on offer now with GeForce Now is seriously impressive, and the device support incredible. For me it would mean never playing Kerbal Space Program or Football Manager ever again, something I could never conscience. And that means it's tough to consider the service as a complete replacement for a gaming PC. But it's not everything that's out there and there will be corners of your game library you want to stream where the light of GeForce Now never shines. There are a huge number of games available via the service, and if you've already got a big Epic or Steam library you'll have plenty to choose from. A tougher test would be if Nvidia could support something like FIFA 23, with the fast responses it requires, but herein lies a wider issue with GFN-game support. playing on GFN.Ĭertainly jamming some North Korean future-scum in Crysis feels speedy, and I've been dodging and parrying with impunity in The Witcher 3, too. Now, my old eyes struggle to distinguish any tangible difference between the responsiveness of my home machine vs. Previously, it has been super slick, but it was possible to see the tiniest bit of input lag if you flick the mouse around quickly. The sharpness of forcing GeForce Now to run at your preferred resolution, when you know your network can handle it, is one thing, but what's really impressed me about this latest update is the responsiveness. At home, with a wireless 5GHz connection and a 100Mbps download rate, however, it's been practically indistinguishable from playing locally. I'm seeing more visual artefacting as the stream hits a blip and downgrades the visuals to compensate. ![]() Both of which are plumbed into a Shield device with an Xbox pad attached to them.īizarrely, my home experience has been the stronger, despite a wired machine in the Bath office that purports to have a blazing fast connection. Then, at home, I can either play on the 4K TV with HDR or fling it up onto my 4K projector for BIG WITCHER ENERGY. Through the GFN app, however, I can turn everything on-yes, even Geralt's flowing Hairworks locks-and happily play on the 40-inch ultrawide attached to it. I could play the game on my RX 6800 XT-powered gaming rig in the office, but it doesn't love the extra pretties the update has added and delivers low, stuttering frame rates at best. I can turn everything on-yes, even Geralt's flowing Hairworks locks.Īnd that's how I've used GFN, especially with The Witcher 3. You can task the GeForce Now app with remembering your personal configs on each game, but that does negate the ability to play on different devices while sharing cloud saves. So sometimes you'll have to play with the settings, enabling ray tracing and HDR, for example, when you boot up a game. Geralt popped up supremely low-res the first time I booted the game (and occasionally still does) and Crysis first appeared in a 768p Window. Especially if you've forgotten which damned button you need to long-press.Īnd then sometimes you'll boot into a game that isn't running at the right resolution. If you've a mouse attached that's fine, but on GeForce Now via the Shield Android TV tube you need to briefly enable mouse mode on your pad to navigate the Windows-based screens, which is a bit awkward. ![]() Then hitting 'play' again on the subsequent CDPR launcher. ![]() On GFN that means booting into Steam (desktop via the PC app or Big Picture on Android) and clicking on the game you've already clicked on to play. Like on a standard PC, however, you still need to navigate the launchers. The next-gen The Witcher 3 update has given me all the excuse I need to restart the game from scratch, and I've been having a blast. And that means all the hoops we PC gamers take for granted. For all intents and purposes you're booting into a limited PC session and running games from your own Epic, Ubisoft, or Steam accounts. Even via the dedicated applications you still almost inevitably run into some very PC issues. So, what's it like to use? Well, it's not quite seamless.
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