Cloud base game streaming
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Depends on what you want to play, and your Internet connection
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Yep, not much good when you're stuck with a ****** 1MB/s ADSL2+ line.
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I think it'll become popular as everyones line speed and quality increase.
Stadia was absolutely amazing, if you had a decent internet connection. Was seriously a very impressive setup. Am gutted they are closing it, more gutted my 200 plus hour assassins creed odyssey save file is going to disappear never to see the light of day again. Malaka!
I've been using Geforce Now Ultimate which is the 3080 soon to be 4080 tier. Once it's upgraded they're boasting 240 fps streaming, ultrawide monitor support and 4k gaming at 120 fps. I'm on a 250mb connection with Virgin Media and it's been flawless and that's with the family using Sky Glass at the same time. I have the max bit rate set to 75mbs with a 1440p resolution.
I decided to use GFN for a second playthrough of Cyberpunk. I wanted to experience the game with all the settings turned up and with full ray tracing and it's been incredible I must say. Unlike Stadia if you already own the games on other stores like Steam, Epic or GOG for example you won't have to buy them again. You can subscribe monthly too if you want to test it out.
With that said the library is fairly limited which I believe is down to the publishers and at £18 a month or £90 for 6 months for the Ultimate tier it's not cheap. There is a free tier and a priority tier also. The priority tier is £9 a month with RTX at a max resolution of 1080p.
My plan is just to activate it if something demanding is released as long as it's on the platform. These GPU prices put me off upgrading.
I decided to use GFN for a second playthrough of Cyberpunk. I wanted to experience the game with all the settings turned up and with full ray tracing and it's been incredible I must say. Unlike Stadia if you already own the games on other stores like Steam, Epic or GOG for example you won't have to buy them again. You can subscribe monthly too if you want to test it out.
With that said the library is fairly limited which I believe is down to the publishers and at £18 a month or £90 for 6 months for the Ultimate tier it's not cheap. There is a free tier and a priority tier also. The priority tier is £9 a month with RTX at a max resolution of 1080p.
My plan is just to activate it if something demanding is released as long as it's on the platform. These GPU prices put me off upgrading.
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The gamepass cloud service works very well in my opinion and plenty of games included too.
I am interested in trying the Geforce Now thing - how does it know the games I own etc across other stores?
Edit: Trying to install GFN but the installer keeps failing, anybody got a clue?
I am interested in trying the Geforce Now thing - how does it know the games I own etc across other stores?
Edit: Trying to install GFN but the installer keeps failing, anybody got a clue?
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One of the reasons for anything other than casual gaming it is so junk - limited options for modding, potential loss of customisation or saved files, etc. etc. you are too much at the mercy of the company hosting it never mind the internet requirements for a good experience and personally even on a good connection I could still notice undesirable levels of latency.
It links to your other store accounts. I can also use my Steam cloud saves which I thought was pretty cool.
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Xbox Game pass works relatively well if you have game pass ultimate.
My fav is GeForce now though, I just use a Nacon MGX controller with my phone and jump in and out throughout the day.
Completed the 3 tomb raiders and Darksiders over the Christmas break
games feel native too using a controller, have no complaints. Shadow of tomb raider with RTX on looked amazing, now playing Control with RTX too which also looks great.
As someone else said the limitation is the library, which is why i'll be buying a Steam Deck soon (As its made me fall back in love with gaming, being handheld is amazing) - so I can play the likes of God of War, Spiderman etc etc.
My fav is GeForce now though, I just use a Nacon MGX controller with my phone and jump in and out throughout the day.
Completed the 3 tomb raiders and Darksiders over the Christmas break
games feel native too using a controller, have no complaints. Shadow of tomb raider with RTX on looked amazing, now playing Control with RTX too which also looks great.As someone else said the limitation is the library, which is why i'll be buying a Steam Deck soon (As its made me fall back in love with gaming, being handheld is amazing) - so I can play the likes of God of War, Spiderman etc etc.
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Considering ending my affinity with 2 yearly GPU upgrades sticking with my current and going with the 4080 tier when it drops.
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Same! I loved it, such a shame it'll be discontinued.
Only thing I didn't like about it was the limited game library... Was a nice way to enjoy Cyberpunk in 4k on older hardware! I loved how I could play on all my tv's, laptops, work pc, etc...
Are there connections these days that can't handle it
, surely ~100+ mbit & <10ms is a standard these days? I have the absolute cheapest rubbish-iest ISP here and get 100/30 over VDSL... Cable 1000/50 is available and within a year we're getting fiber 1000/1000 within the year in our suburb (most big cities have long had fiber)!I've even played over 4G which worked fine!
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Imm on virgin gig1 but you'd be surprised the amount of people I know who are on such things as sky's essential at 11Mb/sSame! I loved it, such a shame it'll be discontinued.
Only thing I didn't like about it was the limited game library... Was a nice way to enjoy Cyberpunk in 4k on older hardware! I loved how I could play on all my tv's, laptops, work pc, etc...
Are there connections these days that can't handle it
I've even played over 4G which worked fine!
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I was about to reply that surely 4G is better in the UK than such connections, then I remembered I was in Edinburgh last november and the mobile networks (2 simcards/providers I tried) were absolutely rubbish/terrible. If that's representative of the rest of the UK then it sounds like it's as bad as in Germany.
It's odd because 2nd world countries like Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand have (had) better internet than the UK and Germany (as have other countries I've recently been in like Spain, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, etc...). Germany is also a disgrace in that case.
11 mbit is very, uhhh, 2005... Pretty sure we had 8mbit in 2002/2003.
It's odd because 2nd world countries like Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand have (had) better internet than the UK and Germany (as have other countries I've recently been in like Spain, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, etc...). Germany is also a disgrace in that case.
11 mbit is very, uhhh, 2005... Pretty sure we had 8mbit in 2002/2003.
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Are there connections these days that can't handle it
I've even played over 4G which worked fine!
I live out in the sticks in the UK, I'm one of only 4 houses in the village which can get FTTC with ~30 down, 5-6 up, 4G I've found a position where I can get up to 80/30 with fairly reasonable latency but that can be degraded during the day and while latency is mostly good enough for gaming it is nothing like as consistent as a fixed line. My neighbours only a short distance away are lucky to get 3MBit on ADSL and like 13MBit on 4G. There is also wireless 50/10 in the area but actual performance is all over the place and apparently disconnects a lot.
EDIT: They've recently added an extra carrier band (and 5G though it is minimum signal) on the main mobile provider here so if I had a Cat 6+ router I could probably get >100Mbit/s down possibly.
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No idea, sorry, I don't use Windows.
Just use a Chromium based web browser and play that way for now.