Geforce now any good?
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You can try it for free. There are so many variables that's really the only way to answer this question.
You've just reminded me to try it. So far
You've just reminded me to try it. So far
- it's complained about lack of bandwidth in the welcome screen - even though I have a reliable 6.1MBps all day every day for the last four years. I've never had a netcode issue in two years of iRacing. Strongly suggests some congestion at their end.
- because I am on free tier, I am in 29th queue for a rig, and the queue seems to be moving less than once a minute. So it will probably be an hour before I get in!
You should worry, I was over 140th in the queue for a rig!
I'm trying it, but it only asks for Steam or Epic accounts. I can't play my main account purchased through Frontier. I'm also scared it will "reset" progress and make me start from the beginning again.
And how do you get APIs for things like EDMC, EDSM, Inara etc to work with it?
I'm trying it, but it only asks for Steam or Epic accounts. I can't play my main account purchased through Frontier. I'm also scared it will "reset" progress and make me start from the beginning again.
And how do you get APIs for things like EDMC, EDSM, Inara etc to work with it?
Oh yes, another thing. No keybinds? How do I get it to recognise my keyboard and HOTAS binds, or do I have to put them all in again?
Wait a minute - it doesn't allow HOTAS??
Wait a minute - it doesn't allow HOTAS??
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OK, it took me an hour and twenty to get in.
I set quality to Ultra and whilst the framerate was OK, it looked worse than it does on my GTX1060/Kaby Lake rig.
So the conclusion from this reporter is "no, it's not worth it."
And yup, all that configuration is kept in config files in your rig's Windows user directory, which nVidia does not have access to. The nVidia Steam instance doesn't know about those. So you have to set up everything again. I changed enough keybinds to start the mining tutorial and after about 30 seconds of that, I stopped bothering and noped out.
I guess if all you had was a laptop and an integrated GPU, and that was over 2 years old, it would be a way to play the game. However you would be better spending the money on a 2016 third-hand rig rather than giving it to nVidia.
Now if you wanted to play this in a hotel room with a laptop AND the hotel had good enough broadband, OK, maybe. That's the corner of the far edge of the western spiral arm of extremely unlikely edge cases though.
I set quality to Ultra and whilst the framerate was OK, it looked worse than it does on my GTX1060/Kaby Lake rig.
So the conclusion from this reporter is "no, it's not worth it."
And yup, all that configuration is kept in config files in your rig's Windows user directory, which nVidia does not have access to. The nVidia Steam instance doesn't know about those. So you have to set up everything again. I changed enough keybinds to start the mining tutorial and after about 30 seconds of that, I stopped bothering and noped out.
I guess if all you had was a laptop and an integrated GPU, and that was over 2 years old, it would be a way to play the game. However you would be better spending the money on a 2016 third-hand rig rather than giving it to nVidia.
Now if you wanted to play this in a hotel room with a laptop AND the hotel had good enough broadband, OK, maybe. That's the corner of the far edge of the western spiral arm of extremely unlikely edge cases though.
No joystick function, no deal as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't mind resetting binds if it allowed a proper controller. I'm not going back to solely K + M.
Shame really, as it nearly doubled my frame rate.
Shame really, as it nearly doubled my frame rate.
I love it. It was recommended to me a week ago. I pay for the premium account, I think(£8.99). It's such a great service for someone like me who no longer owns a PC but a google chrome laptop and a high-speed connection.
Out of interest... what bb connection do you have?
I decided to give this a whirl last night and it seems like the Free tier is pretty much a waste of time, but of course I wanted to use that to see if it was worth spending money...
I've typically had queues of 180 or so, and delays are running at well over an hour to fire it up.
The only thing left to try is the paid account, starting at £8.99... May be worth a try.
I also had network alerts and "try turning off your VPN" (I don't use one) despite my measured network stats exceeding their criteria. Odd.
At present I use an Xbox controller and pedals - seems like the former will still work but not the latter which is a bit of a bummer.
I've heard reports that your bindings are preserved between sessions but I've not yet managed to initiate a second session so can't confirm that
Are you still happy with it @J_Vakarian and how long are the queues once you're a paying customer?
I've typically had queues of 180 or so, and delays are running at well over an hour to fire it up.
The only thing left to try is the paid account, starting at £8.99... May be worth a try.
I also had network alerts and "try turning off your VPN" (I don't use one) despite my measured network stats exceeding their criteria. Odd.
At present I use an Xbox controller and pedals - seems like the former will still work but not the latter which is a bit of a bummer.
I've heard reports that your bindings are preserved between sessions but I've not yet managed to initiate a second session so can't confirm that
Are you still happy with it @J_Vakarian and how long are the queues once you're a paying customer?
The free tier is a victim of the success of the service... wait times are high because the service works so well for free...
(Getting emails for the full service are the only way you pay)
When it was less popular because many people were still under the myth that the server farms were too far from users and had to high lag...
You could get in the game in less than 10mins even on the free version...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc-edQqjXjQ
= less than 7 mins to get a server
The cheapest Paid tier has no wait times now and you have a timer bar and now features Auto steam and epic and Ubisoft account logins via account syncing...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2if-6Zanr9k
lowest Paid tier wait time. Virtual none...
2080 and 3060 server GPUs are available to run the first paid tier Vs 2070s that run the free tier... 4080 servers are available for secondary high paid tier... Ray tracing is supported on all paid tiers...
You do need to run multi tests on the free tier as the connection your ISP buys to connect to the selected server farms will alter in ping times during different real world times...
With the option to play PC titles with settings maxed per GPU level there are many many titles to take the time away... But web browsers are limited in FPS and resolutions Vs applications on android boxes or potato based PC/Mac apps...
Xbox's users never needed to pay a single cent in hardware costs as the web version runs in EDGE as its now chromium based browser...
Some LGTV users have the app..
Other Android TVs can have the app installed... Keyboard and mouse and game pads supported depends on specific devices...
Hardwired connection not Wifi 5/6 usage should be the norm.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UA5vqAxhy4
Extra on potato PC/MACs you can add icons to desktop to skip the need to open web browser or apps first...
(Getting emails for the full service are the only way you pay)
When it was less popular because many people were still under the myth that the server farms were too far from users and had to high lag...
You could get in the game in less than 10mins even on the free version...
= less than 7 mins to get a server
The cheapest Paid tier has no wait times now and you have a timer bar and now features Auto steam and epic and Ubisoft account logins via account syncing...
lowest Paid tier wait time. Virtual none...
2080 and 3060 server GPUs are available to run the first paid tier Vs 2070s that run the free tier... 4080 servers are available for secondary high paid tier... Ray tracing is supported on all paid tiers...
You do need to run multi tests on the free tier as the connection your ISP buys to connect to the selected server farms will alter in ping times during different real world times...
With the option to play PC titles with settings maxed per GPU level there are many many titles to take the time away... But web browsers are limited in FPS and resolutions Vs applications on android boxes or potato based PC/Mac apps...
Xbox's users never needed to pay a single cent in hardware costs as the web version runs in EDGE as its now chromium based browser...
Some LGTV users have the app..
Other Android TVs can have the app installed... Keyboard and mouse and game pads supported depends on specific devices...
Hardwired connection not Wifi 5/6 usage should be the norm.
Extra on potato PC/MACs you can add icons to desktop to skip the need to open web browser or apps first...
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Yes I can well believe there's a pretty significant cost to running this stuff.
I managed to get in for a second time this morning (last night's successful connection was on an Android tablet, just long enough to schedule a carrier jump as a test).
The graphics kicked off at 720p but I was able to raise them to 1080p and the image quality was generally good (ever so slightly fuzzy at times). I have no idea which GPU was in use (I think it just said Tesla) but ED decided to put pretty much all graphics quality settings to "high" which is pretty good for a free product!
However I had severe controller problems and ended up reverting to KBM to land the ship. The gamepad control updates would appear to be accepted in the controls screen, but then nothing would work in flight. I realised after a while that each time I entered the controls screen, only the settings that I put in place in a single controls update were really there. The other settings still appeared to be present but didn't do anything. For example I'd go in and set pitch to left stick up/down, and then it would work but roll and yaw would be gone; if I set all three of them in a single visit to the controls screen then they'd all work. Setting the overall control set to things like "control pad default" would put a bunch of sensible things in but NONE of them worked.
Not sure what could cause this but it's rather discouraging and I'm not sure I want to bother with the paid service now.
I couldn't get it to recognise a HOTAS. I'm surprised it will recognise controllers, in that case.
I can see potential for this online gaming in future, with hardware at a company's end, rather than the home client's, but so far it seems a bit hit and miss. Mostly miss.
The Apps Vs the browser version. Apps allows lots more functions you can bring up over lay menus burt apps have more functions. . controll + g..
Apps allow photos and video recording at stupid high bit rate... as well as stats...
Not hardwired so bad day on the pings with wifi if i get a 3060 server its way worse ping..
Apps allow photos and video recording at stupid high bit rate... as well as stats...
Not hardwired so bad day on the pings with wifi if i get a 3060 server its way worse ping..
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Nvidia make the "shield" and its a 4K geforce now stream enabled device with controller input. it was one of the first devices to get GeForce now being their own hardware unit sold with a controller bundle...
I didn't test the browser version yet, but tried the Android app (not bad; I didn't have a controller hooked up by Bluetooth but it emulated one with a screen overlay! :-O
) and the Windows app (for which I didn't find any way to get to a system menu - is that Windows in your pic above? I must look up the hot keys etc.).Yep windows app.
Has a popout settings and option menu top left click lines menu/hamburger bar.... before you launch any game...
Then settings... with manual over-rides for server location and bandwidth and resolution and FPS as highest paying tier get 4K and 120fps...
Has a popout settings and option menu top left click lines menu/hamburger bar.... before you launch any game...
Then settings... with manual over-rides for server location and bandwidth and resolution and FPS as highest paying tier get 4K and 120fps...
Yeah, sorry I mean after the game is launched, is there a way to do any stuff with the instance, in the Windows app? (The Android app keeps a little icon on the screen for doing stuff.)
It all hidden in the cog menu at the top... Like changing stream bit rate real time... Upscale options... so on
once you find the correct match youll likely never go back in I expect after... thats all..
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OK ta, will look again if I ever manage to get another session started (almost 300 in queue a few minutes ago). I couldn't see any cog the last time, once it fired up ED.