I am having trouble getting good Wifi speeds on my laptop. The router is 802.11n, and everything seems to work okay on my PC. What is the correct thread for discussing this?
Tried it out on a 5-year-old laptop w/TW:3K, FC:Primal, and W3. No wait to get on the free service and I was able to play all three games over the wireless without any trouble.
After launching GeForce Now it launches Steam to verify you own the game. You have to click install, but it doesn’t download anything to your system. Something is happening, though, because W3 took a lot longer to load than the other two.
Each game had the graphics set to Ultra, and I was able to modify resolution and other options. Load times also seemed improved compared to my old laptop. Best of all, my laptop’s temperature stays low while the game’s running.
My Steam saves worked just fine. Tried to get the app running with Game Pass for PC, but no luck there. Haven’t tried it with Epic yet, but I might give Kingdom Come a go later this week.
I can definitely see myself signing up for this next time I’m playing a compatible game.
Hopefully they add mod support (somehow…) at some point in the future.
Geforce Now(and Stadia) recommends an AC router and frankly really wants a ethernet connection for best performance.
Never happening, they’re certainly not going to give arbitrary write access.
Anything you can get through Steam Workshop is usable though (might take a relaunch or two to get it sorted out on the backend).
And speaking of arbitrary write access, apparently Paradox games (Vic2, CK2, EU4, HOI4) had a recently discovered exploit (now patched) that allowed arbitrary code execution from mods.
https://old.reddit.com/r/paradoxplaza/comments/ezqwel/security_flaw_in_hearts_of_iron_iv
Would’ve been amusing to see someone dig into the internals of GFN using that
Yeah, that is good news at least.
As all these articles are pointing out, this is a really weird move. In order to play these games on the service you have to purchase these games. Why doesn’t Activision Blizzard want this extra revenue? I suppose NVIDIA takes a cut and they don’t want to give them anything?
Based on how fast Activision/Blizzard is sinking in the zeitgeist, all I have to say is:
Gaming companies aren’t satisfied with sales anymore. Just hold out your wrist so they can hook-up and start sucking.
Yeah, presumably there was an agreement in place to allow NVidia to support those Blizzard games in the first place…and then to immediately yank them? It really is odd.
Maybe they are planning on going over to Stadia instead? Maybe Google’s offer is more attractive.
Maybe the folks making the list already figured this out, but supported games are store dependent. For example, they have Kingdom Come listed as a supported game, but only if you have the Steam version.
Also, I was able to play a couple of games with mods from Steam Workshop enabled.
That’s disappointing, and feels shortsighted.
I’ve been using GeForce Now exclusively for covered games for a couple of weeks. There are two uses I see: playing games my laptop can already run, and playing games my laptop can’t run. Service works fine for the former, but it’s not enough to subscribe. The latter comes down to a confidence issue. Do I want to buy a game I can only run on GeForce Now, without knowing if / for how long I’ll be able to play it?
Is the next geration going to be a wasteland of an upcoming surge of exclusive wars?
I thought nVidia said Activision’s thing was just a misunderstanding and that their games would be back on the service soon?
Haha. Yeah, that’s called PR.
I’m sure it’s the same “misunderstanding” Bethesda had. They thought they were getting paid for allowing their games on the service.