Thanks for this. I'm playing that now, and it's made me a bit happier to stay with my 3080fe!!
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Geforce now ultimate - most impressive!
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Thanks for this. I'm playing that now, and it's made me a bit happier to stay with my 3080fe!!
Thank you and I'm glad you found it useful.
I find it odd how some games look better than others. Alan Wake 2 with pathtracing looks extremely close to a local PC to my eyes (despite having lots of vegetation) and Cyberpunk is pretty close too, but Avatar, Baldur's Gate 3 and the Talos Principle 2 have much more obvious issues with blur and compression artefacts.
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so I finally got access to try this & bought a month of ultimate to try out. now to be clear I used to have a 3090 & recently upgraded to a 7900xtx
After the 20 minutes ive played on 1 game i play a lot (ETS2/ATS) & one quick comp game of century. I love it. even on my broke Net connection right now (35MB/s with 5% packet loss)
was running 3440x1440 60/120fps no issues (set custom) & didn't feel like I could see any differences. I think balanced/comp settings do have downgrades, but Id be very tempted to use Geforce Now full time
I mostly play old games or Story games now days & i hate a nosy room ( I think 200rpm 180mm Fans are noisy)
so if i could run a NUC & game for next 10 years that be pretty awesome
id be very tempted to sell my Gaming PC & buy a low end pc or just sell the 7900xtx & buy a old 2060 (in case my net goes down)
After the 20 minutes ive played on 1 game i play a lot (ETS2/ATS) & one quick comp game of century. I love it. even on my broke Net connection right now (35MB/s with 5% packet loss)
was running 3440x1440 60/120fps no issues (set custom) & didn't feel like I could see any differences. I think balanced/comp settings do have downgrades, but Id be very tempted to use Geforce Now full time
I mostly play old games or Story games now days & i hate a nosy room ( I think 200rpm 180mm Fans are noisy)
so if i could run a NUC & game for next 10 years that be pretty awesome
id be very tempted to sell my Gaming PC & buy a low end pc or just sell the 7900xtx & buy a old 2060 (in case my net goes down)
Soldato
It's quite impressive and better than expected. I can see Nvidia working on some sort of AI that would run client side that would increase the IQ of the received data to compensate for the fact it isn't running locally.
Ignoring the fact I am useless at the game here is an example of the streaming quality
www.youtube.com
Bear in mind youtube does reduce the quality a bit but for the most part it's not that much different from native with DLSS
For the best quality it's important to make sure you are streaming with AV1 which it will show on the side bar.
Battlefield 2042 Tank - Geforce Now 4K
www.youtube.com
Bear in mind youtube does reduce the quality a bit but for the most part it's not that much different from native with DLSS
For the best quality it's important to make sure you are streaming with AV1 which it will show on the side bar.
Decided to give GeForce Now a crack after re-aligning my entire setup at home.
Initial impressions weren't great with the free tier tbh. The wait time was, well, I gave up after 45 mins and only moving up 80 places from ~230. The one time I did actually get past the queue stage it timed out due to the slow as molasses sync via Microsoft GamePass. I am not going to fully blame this on GeForce Now as I have seen similar slow times when using GamePass streaming app itself.
Now upgrading to the Ultimate tier is a completely different experience. Over wifi on my MacBook Sniper Elite 5 had a little bit of stutter, especially on the audio, but that soon cleared up and it was quite honestly a great experience (well ignoring the track pad and only running at 1080p as the bizarre resolution of the Mac is not an option).
I need two get it setup via Ethernet and on my 1440p UW G-sync monitor to really give it a proper test.
Main test will be a direct comparison between the Ultimate tier (4080) and Parsec into a Win 11 VM on my server running 16 Zen 2 threads and a 4070. More powerful hardware vs theoretically better latency.... Will be very interesting to see the difference tbh.
EDIT: Completely forgot to mention the connection I am running on. I am on sequential 900Mb/s fibre with a WiFi 6E router.
Initial impressions weren't great with the free tier tbh. The wait time was, well, I gave up after 45 mins and only moving up 80 places from ~230. The one time I did actually get past the queue stage it timed out due to the slow as molasses sync via Microsoft GamePass. I am not going to fully blame this on GeForce Now as I have seen similar slow times when using GamePass streaming app itself.
Now upgrading to the Ultimate tier is a completely different experience. Over wifi on my MacBook Sniper Elite 5 had a little bit of stutter, especially on the audio, but that soon cleared up and it was quite honestly a great experience (well ignoring the track pad and only running at 1080p as the bizarre resolution of the Mac is not an option).
I need two get it setup via Ethernet and on my 1440p UW G-sync monitor to really give it a proper test.
Main test will be a direct comparison between the Ultimate tier (4080) and Parsec into a Win 11 VM on my server running 16 Zen 2 threads and a 4070. More powerful hardware vs theoretically better latency.... Will be very interesting to see the difference tbh.
EDIT: Completely forgot to mention the connection I am running on. I am on sequential 900Mb/s fibre with a WiFi 6E router.
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Still on WiFi but now got the Mac hooked up to my 1440p UW monitor.
Once I changed servers manually to one that didn't show any packet loss in the connection test (EU NorthWest instead of EU West it auto chose?!) it was waaaaaaay better. Still somewhat blocky in certain scenes but I will reserve judgement until I test it via Ethernet (that is a whole Dongle scenario and I am too tired to test that out right now).
Also I could just run the game natively on the Ally + 3080 XG Mobile but where is the fun in that?!
Quick shot of it in "action":
Once I changed servers manually to one that didn't show any packet loss in the connection test (EU NorthWest instead of EU West it auto chose?!) it was waaaaaaay better. Still somewhat blocky in certain scenes but I will reserve judgement until I test it via Ethernet (that is a whole Dongle scenario and I am too tired to test that out right now).
Also I could just run the game natively on the Ally + 3080 XG Mobile but where is the fun in that?!
Quick shot of it in "action":
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For some reason I have to use a UDP VPN (Proton is free) to connect to Geforce Now servers, otherwise the latency is much higher (50-60ms with spikes over 100ms). With a VPN, the latency is consistently between 17-18ms.
Apparently, some ISPs don't route traffic efficiently to Nvidia's servers.
Proton's free VPN seems to have packet loss over around 20mps (server defaults to EU Northeast), which limits me to 1600x900 resolution (60 FPS), but it does work smoothly playing like this.
I probably wouldn't pay for Geforce Now, until I change to an ISP that provides playable latency on their servers.
Apparently, some ISPs don't route traffic efficiently to Nvidia's servers.
Proton's free VPN seems to have packet loss over around 20mps (server defaults to EU Northeast), which limits me to 1600x900 resolution (60 FPS), but it does work smoothly playing like this.
I probably wouldn't pay for Geforce Now, until I change to an ISP that provides playable latency on their servers.
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Which ISP are you with so I can avoid them?
Variable Refresh Rate Support Comes to NVIDIA’s GeForce Now Cloud Streaming Service
by Matthew Connatser on March 7, 2024 7:00 PM EST
by Matthew Connatser on March 7, 2024 7:00 PM EST
Does not work on AMD and Intel GPUs in windows (Not supported at this time...AKA waiting for backlash before maybe adding some minor support) BUT works fine on Apple iMacs even ones with the AMD Radeon Pro cards that gamers will not own... 
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Classic Nvidia!Variable Refresh Rate Support Comes to NVIDIA’s GeForce Now Cloud Streaming Service
by Matthew Connatser on March 7, 2024 7:00 PM EST
Does not work on AMD and Intel GPUs in windows (Not supported at this time...AKA waiting for backlash before maybe adding some minor support) BUT works fine on Apple iMacs even ones with the AMD Radeon Pro cards that gamers will not own...
NVIDIA now offers one-day rentals of GeForce RTX 4080 rigs for $8 via GeForce NOW - VideoCardz.com
NVIDIA GeForce NOW streaming gains G-Sync and Reflex support, Day Passes now available Gamers who never experienced the GeForce NOW service in its Ultimate tier will now have a new option. Rather than committing to monthly subscriptions, one is now given an option to enable game streaming for a...
videocardz.com
More Nvidia comedy.... Not April 1st yet but they are trying hard early...
Still want to rent your GPUs from this company ?
I'm not sure why it's such a big issue and you're getting so offended by these things? If you don't like it, simply don't pay for it?
Do you expect them to allow people to use their tech/server centres/4080s for free? And is it really surprising that they don't want their competition to be using their tech? Perhaps amd and intel or other cloud streaming services can come up with their own solutions to provide competition and thus force nvidia to provide it for cheaper or/and expand their support?
Some more comparisons from one of our members on here:
Do you expect them to allow people to use their tech/server centres/4080s for free? And is it really surprising that they don't want their competition to be using their tech? Perhaps amd and intel or other cloud streaming services can come up with their own solutions to provide competition and thus force nvidia to provide it for cheaper or/and expand their support?
Some more comparisons from one of our members on here:
@Purgatory
Can you not discuss the points or answer the questions raised rather than going of on one and resorting to childish remarks? (something which you have given of about before?)
Keep to the topic and answer these questions:
What exactly do you "want" to see nvidia do?
Can you not discuss the points or answer the questions raised rather than going of on one and resorting to childish remarks? (something which you have given of about before?)
Keep to the topic and answer these questions:
What exactly do you "want" to see nvidia do?
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Don