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Not in a good place at the moment so thought I would treat myself to a look at this.
Wow it’s pretty incredible !
Installed it on the main pc, Steam Deck and 12.9” M1 iPad Pro.
Tried Cyberpunk on the main pc first which has a 4070 and GeForce made it look a bit sad with everything maxed out at 90fps !
Then Baldurs Gate 3 on Steam Deck followed by iPad and Sniper Elite 5 on iPad.
Cyberpunk maxed out on iPad !
Wow it’s pretty incredible !
Installed it on the main pc, Steam Deck and 12.9” M1 iPad Pro.
Tried Cyberpunk on the main pc first which has a 4070 and GeForce made it look a bit sad with everything maxed out at 90fps !
Then Baldurs Gate 3 on Steam Deck followed by iPad and Sniper Elite 5 on iPad.
Cyberpunk maxed out on iPad !
Yep - it's Nvidias best kept secret. I've been using it for years, since I got my Shield TV box and it was a free beta product.
Best feature is the way you play games from your own existing games library (Steam, Epic, Ubisoft) instead of having to buy them only for streaming - but a real shame that money squabbles from publishers have restricted what you can and can't run on the service. Still, Nvidia have been very good at making sure that whatever new popular games come out are on the platform and there is quite a lot of older stuff that they support too. I can currently play 268 games in my personal library so can't really complain.
Best feature is the way you play games from your own existing games library (Steam, Epic, Ubisoft) instead of having to buy them only for streaming - but a real shame that money squabbles from publishers have restricted what you can and can't run on the service. Still, Nvidia have been very good at making sure that whatever new popular games come out are on the platform and there is quite a lot of older stuff that they support too. I can currently play 268 games in my personal library so can't really complain.
Latest update on GeForce Now means is officially works on the Quest 3. I want an Vision Pro but cannot really justify spending £3k on a gadget so grabbed a preowned Quest for about 10% of the cost. I'm genuinely surprised how well GeForce Now runs over WiFi 5. I'm using a wired Stadia controller, and the 3.5mm audio jack, old school cables versus Bluetooth everything
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Combining all GeForce Now, with a mixed reality headset really does give a feel for which way gaming is going. I'm tempted now to upgrade my subscription to 'Ultimate' but the Quest really doesn't have the resolution ability to really take advantage of a 4K source, but still, the ability to play Forza on Ultra graphics settings on a massive 150inch virtual screen anywhere in the house is simply mad!!
.Combining all GeForce Now, with a mixed reality headset really does give a feel for which way gaming is going. I'm tempted now to upgrade my subscription to 'Ultimate' but the Quest really doesn't have the resolution ability to really take advantage of a 4K source, but still, the ability to play Forza on Ultra graphics settings on a massive 150inch virtual screen anywhere in the house is simply mad!!
gangzoom said:
Latest update on GeForce Now means is officially works on the Quest 3. I want an Vision Pro but cannot really justify spending £3k on a gadget so grabbed a preowned Quest for about 10% of the cost. I'm genuinely surprised how well GeForce Now runs over WiFi 5. I'm using a wired Stadia controller, and the 3.5mm audio jack, old school cables versus Bluetooth everything.
Combining all GeForce Now, with a mixed reality headset really does give a feel for which way gaming is going. I'm tempted now to upgrade my subscription to 'Ultimate' but the Quest really doesn't have the resolution ability to really take advantage of a 4K source, but still, the ability to play Forza on Ultra graphics settings on a massive 150inch virtual screen anywhere in the house is simply mad!!
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What witchcraft is this!? What setup do you need?.Combining all GeForce Now, with a mixed reality headset really does give a feel for which way gaming is going. I'm tempted now to upgrade my subscription to 'Ultimate' but the Quest really doesn't have the resolution ability to really take advantage of a 4K source, but still, the ability to play Forza on Ultra graphics settings on a massive 150inch virtual screen anywhere in the house is simply mad!!
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As a bonus, GeForce now allows you to add Gamepass games to your library (assuming you have an active account of course) so you can stream them from cloud too. I know that the native Xboxlive streaming has been criticised quite a bit so this is a nice bonus. I'll have to test the picture quality of both out on my Quest3.
If 'flat' streaming is popular, there's a chance that they might think about offering VR streaming too. Obviously VR is very susceptible to lag but maybe it's tolerable. Would be interesting to see it in action.
If 'flat' streaming is popular, there's a chance that they might think about offering VR streaming too. Obviously VR is very susceptible to lag but maybe it's tolerable. Would be interesting to see it in action.
Boozy said:
What witchcraft is this!? What setup do you need?
Really does feel like magic....- GeForce Now subscription - I've just upgraded to 'ultimate.
- Games in your Steam/Xbox/Epic etc games library that is allowed to run on GeForce Now.
- Good WiFi - I'm on WiFi 5 (5ghz) and no issues, WiFi 6/7 would be obviously better
- Any device that can run Chrome (limited res to 1440p, 60FPS), GeForce Now app is at 4k and 120FPS on 'ultimate' subscription.
The Quest 3 actual eye resolution isn't any where near 4k, and GeForce Now not true VR as its essentially a massive 150inch screen, but it felt utterly surreal just watching the world (virtual) go by in Cyberpunk, and this is about as 'real' experience I will ever get to pilot a BMW GT car at LeMans
I know the 5080 is out, but for the simplicity the 'performance' GeForce Now essentially allows to deliver on any device is mad. Over 100FPS on Forza benchmarked with everything turned up, and the same with Cyberpunk. I'm 100% sure GeForce Now will be updated to 5080 cards soon, but what game is going to need if the current AAA titles are hitting 100FPS already on any device any where (assuming good WiFi).
I cannot wait for the price of the Vision Pro to drop, the Quest 3 headset is great for the price (I paid £360), but an OLED panel with more pixel can only improve things.
The problem is now all the 'native' VR games on the Quest looks like high-school IT projects in comparison to AAA titles......it's a nice 1st world problem to have
Ok this is really is witchery, no wires, no faffing with hardware, no arguing about if PS is better than Xbox, just put the headset on, press a few buttons and you are playing Witcher 3 in the kitchen at breakfast time. This is the future of gaming.....well once Quest (or anyone else) can put in better display chip in the headset without it costing £3k!!
gangzoom said:
Ok this is really is witchery, no wires, no faffing with hardware, no arguing about if PS is better than Xbox, just put the headset on, press a few buttons and you are playing Witcher 3 in the kitchen at breakfast time. This is the future of gaming.....well once Quest (or anyone else) can put in better display chip in the headset without it costing £3k!!
I'm quite impressed with the actual Xcloud app that MS offer for Gamepass ultimate. Easy to set up and a nice custom environment when you aren't using passthrough. Picture quality was surprisingly good - I had heard bad things about the Xcloud streaming but I have no complaints.GeforceNow works but does require a bit of faffing around to run in the browser. Also, GFN seems picky about what controllers it will work with. I had an old Gamesir BT joypad for Android which paired with the Quest3 fine and worked great on Xcloud but didn't seem to be picked up by GFN. Changed to a spare DS4 controller that I had and it works good on both. Strange feeling to be playing Xbox games with a Playstation controller.
Hopefully GFN will come out with a custom Quest app. The picture quality is excellent as I have come to expect from using it for years on flatscreen.
Had some time last weekend to get in some decent gaming sessions in on the projector, so 4K, 120fps. No issues at all with quality or gaming experience, essentially cannot tell difference between playing on GFN and an actual console. The data usage however is pretty mad, nearly 100gig in one day, it puts far more demand on home network than any work, or other media streaming stuff.
Is there a minimum Internet bandwidth for 4K Geforce Now?
ETA
https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce-now/system-re...
ETA
https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce-now/system-re...
Edited by Digger on Sunday 9th February 11:47
^I'm on 'Just' fake fiber, so fiber to the junction box down the road than copper wire into the house. Speeds are 80Mpbs into the router. The TV/projector has ethernet connection, mobile devices are via WiFi. I was worried about needing to upgrade to WiFi 6 or even 7 standard, but actually streaming to the Quest headset via WiFi 5 connection with the mesh node in the same room is fine. In corridor spaces or if you move around to parts of the house without a node in the room, forget it.
So providing you have half decent boardband it'll be fine as long as you as the connectivity in the house is decent, so mesh/at least WiFi 5.
So providing you have half decent boardband it'll be fine as long as you as the connectivity in the house is decent, so mesh/at least WiFi 5.
Digger said:
Is there a minimum Internet bandwidth for 4K Geforce Now?
ETA
https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce-now/system-re...
Just checked my GFN account only actually did about 4hr of gaming last Saturday, say baseline data usage is less than 5gig a day, that's about 90gig of data in 4hrs, or about 7MB/S which equates to around 50Mbp/s sustained.ETA
https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce-now/system-re...
Edited by Digger on Sunday 9th February 11:47
Edited by gangzoom on Sunday 9th February 15:35
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