Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions
Manjushri@piefed.social 1 day ago
Forgive my ignorance, but does this mean that my gforce card performance will be degraded if I don’t pay for this subscription? Why would I want to use this cloud gaming to play games I already own?
Because some people have digital libraries but no hardware to run them on.
At the very least, this is a loss in gaming accessibility by cost since a month of GeForce Now used to be a decent gaming backup for when my gaming system was down (had to RMA GPU).
That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
Ecen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, not if you own your own card/gaming pc. This is about their cloud gaming service where the game is run on their servers and streamed to you.
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Have you ever tried it? It sounds like a ping nightmare, especially for multiplayer. You gotta wait first for the game server lag and then again while you wait for Nvidia to remotely render your draw call?
I know this service exists but it has always sounded absolutely terrible to me.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 day ago
The latency is way better than you’d expect, but still noticeably worse than local. I think if you’ve got a decent connection and Nvidia has a server nearby it’s about the same as 1 extra frame of lag (or playing on a TV without game mode…)
Ecen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Never tried it and don’t really want to! Been thinking the same as you. Seems like a privacy nightmare too.
Would be cool to stream my entire pc in-home though so I could get rid of all fan sounds by putting it in a closet or something, but haven’t been something I’ve prioritised to experiment with.
Manjushri@piefed.social 1 day ago
Okay, thanks.