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Geforce Now RTX 3080 class streaming has lower input lag than a local Xbox Series X.

Uriel

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Just astonishing result from Geforce Now when it comes to input lag. I'm more than impressed.

Not sure this is really the right section to put it in, but it'll do, I suppose.

With graphics card prices as they are, streaming looks fairly sensible if you want to play a select handful of games with the eye candy turned on. Just would be nice if they can get on with 4k streaming via PC.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...-is-cloud-gaming-finally-a-viable-alternative
 
What's not astonishing is the consoles input latency being high

it's being that way for many years - I'm not entirely sure why, either these console makers are making bad heavy software which I doubt or they are purposefully injecting latency which I think is more likely - because they've done this exact thing in the past (purposely add input latency as part of a sub system which is intended to balance multiplayer games based on player network latency)
 
That's on paper. In reality you can expect many more spikes and stutters on GFN throughout a play session, so the experience is less stable than playing on a local machine. It's fine in some games but outright nasty in others to a degree which shocked me (e.g. The Division 2).

Source: me actually using GFN
 
Uriel said:
Just astonishing result from Geforce Now when it comes to input lag. I'm more than impressed.

Not sure this is really the right section to put it in, but it'll do, I suppose.

With graphics card prices as they are, streaming looks fairly sensible if you want to play a select handful of games with the eye candy turned on. Just would be nice if they can get on with 4k streaming via PC.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...-is-cloud-gaming-finally-a-viable-alternative
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Interesting this story appears in the press just a week or so ago after Nvidia announced it's streaming platform proposals at £15 per month!
 
Game said:
does this run the game downstairs and just stream it or share the resources of the desktop ?

heard it mentioned a few times
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So my laptop is mostly idle, the desktop downstairs with the 3080ti does everything, basically I add GPU-Z.exe to gamestream in GeForce experience, it then just loads the desktop up, so it's like I'm on the PC downstairs. Then any game I want I launch it from the PC downstairs. I ran an ethernet cable upstairs and connected it to a BT Hub and it runs fine at 4k 120 regarding the bandwidth.

So yes 100% resources of desktop, if you turned monitor on downstairs it would just show whatever is happening upstairs on the laptop, there is a way to share the resources so you could do your own thing on the desktop and run an instance on a laptop, check out Linus Tech Tips he did an article on it but I've not had a look at that it's not really needed for my use case.

I do occasionally run it wireless and it's fine with the BT Hub as it gets around 650mbit, but before I ran a cable up and used the BT Hub, I was using a Virgin Hub 4 and the speeds on that were not sufficient to support any reasonable image quality. It's great though, I sometimes sit in bed or connect my laptop to my 165Hz 1440p dell.

You do need a "hdmi dummy plug" that can be got from Amazon for a few quid, else you can keep your monitor/tv on but it's a waste of leccy.
 
If it was a monthly contract rather than 6 months purchase it could actually be quite good. I'd pay £15 for a month of gaming on a high-end GPU if I could have games I wanted were available.
 
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