kmanmx
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Just got into the beta. I'm impressed! I have tried all the other game streaming services and they all have obvious latency, but not this one. I have an 80Mbit connection with 9ms ping to 'NVIDIA EU West' server according to the in-app testing. They say it will work well with > 25Mbit and < 40ms. This is over ethernet. I tried it on 2.4Ghz wifi and the picture quality was poor, so that's a shame. It reccomended 5Ghz wifi so maybe that would be much better.
But anyway yeah, on ethernet it works well. The max image quality you can choose is 1920 x 1080 @ 120Hz @ 50Mbps. So if high res gaming is your jam, this won't suit you. I have a 40" monitor so to be honest playing games on it at 1080P looks kinda poor image quality wise, so I spent more time testing them in a windowed mode at roughly 24" in size, and it looked much better. It's not perfect by any means, I was playing PUBG and it said I was hooked up to a "1080c GPU" in the datacenter. I was getting 70 to 140fps at max settings, but there was still a bit of stutter. Kinda felt like SLI stutter from years back. Still totally playable though. I tried CSGO and there was much less stutter in that, for what it's worth.
It's not quite responsive enough if you are a hardcore competitive ranked FPS player, but for casual/single player experiences it ticks the right boxes. Would I trade in my PC ? Lol no. But that is right now. It's easy to imagine in 5 years Geforce Now will do 4K @ 60FPS streaming and they will have solved the stuttering. Then it gets much more interesting in terms of will I be wanting a gaming PC...
tl;dr If you're without a gaming PC but can get some kind of laptop hooked up to Ethernet on a nice internet connection, Geforce Now will give you a legitimately satisfactory and fun gaming experience. It hooks up to Steam, so you can play anything in your Steam library.
But anyway yeah, on ethernet it works well. The max image quality you can choose is 1920 x 1080 @ 120Hz @ 50Mbps. So if high res gaming is your jam, this won't suit you. I have a 40" monitor so to be honest playing games on it at 1080P looks kinda poor image quality wise, so I spent more time testing them in a windowed mode at roughly 24" in size, and it looked much better. It's not perfect by any means, I was playing PUBG and it said I was hooked up to a "1080c GPU" in the datacenter. I was getting 70 to 140fps at max settings, but there was still a bit of stutter. Kinda felt like SLI stutter from years back. Still totally playable though. I tried CSGO and there was much less stutter in that, for what it's worth.
It's not quite responsive enough if you are a hardcore competitive ranked FPS player, but for casual/single player experiences it ticks the right boxes. Would I trade in my PC ? Lol no. But that is right now. It's easy to imagine in 5 years Geforce Now will do 4K @ 60FPS streaming and they will have solved the stuttering. Then it gets much more interesting in terms of will I be wanting a gaming PC...
tl;dr If you're without a gaming PC but can get some kind of laptop hooked up to Ethernet on a nice internet connection, Geforce Now will give you a legitimately satisfactory and fun gaming experience. It hooks up to Steam, so you can play anything in your Steam library.
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