I've been messing around with Nvidia's streaming game service and my Steam Catalogue.
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I think someone just ate Google Stadia's lunch!
How does it work? I have paid little attention of late, have been a bit too busy.
It looks like Stadia but... Not **** :flirty:...
Edit - I read this, and a few other bits. Looks promising, I will try it out over the weekend.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-has-geforce-now-quietly-killed-google-stadia
One of my colleagues at work hit a free beta trial for the nVidia offering and was very impressed. The fact they've cut the subscription price so much is pretty impressive!
At the moment I am messing with the free version so am limited to one hour of play time before I have to reconnect. I can play anything in my Steam library via Nvidia. At the moment there is no particular gain for me as anything I can play through Nvidia I can already play on my desktop. But as a concept it's clearly way in front of the competition.
It's still early days for these services but it does look like the beginning of hardware independent gaming.
I'm interested in a small streaming pc in the lounge, playing games with visual fidelity similar to what I can achieve in the study on the desktop, therein lies the niche for me.
Stadia offers the same of course, but at an added expense in terms of both hardware and game ownership...
I don't imagine I will go beyond the free, though, as the tech is still seriously limited for now Imo - 60 fps 1080p... And any more than that and my internet definitely won't cope xD
The Steam apps and old Steam Link work fine for on LAN streaming, I use the link a lot, especially for game where the wife and I cna play together, rpg games or story type games.
It's possible to make it work over a vpn but the lag control over higher latency is not really good.
I gave my free pass for Stadia to one of our members and he immediately got the 6 free games and (a big and over my original purchase) he has 3 more months than me and will get another 6 free games. Even if it doesn't become a day to day usable solution for a while, these games and the hardware easily coverd the cost of the founders edition. I find playing slower games on Stadia fine, not dabbled with FPS much since it simply has no use case for me as I also like 144Hz.
Quote from: albert;440636The Steam apps and old Steam Link work fine for on LAN streaming, I use the link a lot, especially for game where the wife and I cna play together, rpg games or story type games.
It's possible to make it work over a vpn but the lag control over higher latency is not really good.
I gave my free pass for Stadia to one of our members and he immediately got the 6 free games and (a big and over my original purchase) he has 3 more months than me and will get another 6 free games. Even if it doesn't become a day to day usable solution for a while, these games and the hardware easily coverd the cost of the founders edition. I find playing slower games on Stadia fine, not dabbled with FPS much since it simply has no use case for me as I also like 144Hz.
See, I find the Steam Link unbearably laggy, and of course I have only ever tested it over ethernet.
I'm going to give the nvidia option a quick go later today and see if its any better.
Quote from: Chaosphere;440638See, I find the Steam Link unbearably laggy, and of course I have only ever tested it over ethernet.
I'm going to give the nvidia option a quick go later today and see if its any better.
My PC is cabled direftly into my main router, then the steam link is off a switch that has a powerline uplink to the main router. It's not ideal but I get no lag.
I get lag over wifi to the the link, that's bloody awful.
I have exactly the same setup. I think I am quite subjective to input lag, and perhaps I am just playing 'faster' games too. Either way I never enjoy the experience, the performance is always annoying me and distracting from the game.
Quote from: Chaosphere;440643I have exactly the same setup. I think I am quite subjective to input lag, and perhaps I am just playing 'faster' games too. Either way I never enjoy the experience, the performance is always annoying me and distracting from the game.
I suspect you'll not be any happier with the nVidia service either, since you do have quite high expectations (rightly so) but none of them can hit the mark yet. But hey worth a punt eh?
Yep this has always been what's holding me back.
Absolutely the nVidia one is worth a punt, it costs me nothing! :D
For full disclosure I only played Subnautica so far and that worked no problem. I was in a main desktop pc with ethernet to the router and a 250 mB connection.
I'm guessing if I tried CS.GO I'd get a different experience.
Yeah, so I tried Doom - obviously a worst case scenario, and the experience was.. awful. The input lag made it unplayable.
For reference, my connection is around 50 meg down 15 up, so although not as good as some, I feel it may be fairly representative of many UK connections?
Maybe I will try a slower game at some point... but for now I am glad I could try this for free, it isn't something that I personally would want to commit cash to yet.
Metalcore is very much an acquired taste.
...yes, but stomping out demons is delightful from the word go :D