SvennoJ said:
HoloDust said:
You should check it out at least, if you haven't. Around last summer I was curious to check GeForce NOW, since I haven't in ages, so installed and tried Free and had no problem to play Ghost Runner on it, which is quite twitch based. So, unlike how game streaming services used to be, reserved almost exclusively for slower paced/turn-based games, this is quite able to handle fast action. This is all before GeForce NOW came into "shit, this actually works" spotlight, so not sure if Free is as good as it used to be, but I know Ultimate is. I can see its main purpose as in "I want to play latest AAA game in all its glory" and pay a month of Ultimate just for that, while playing all other, less demanding games on local hardware. |
I tried FH5 on streaming, it was awful. I could hardly make it through the tutorial race. I don't live anywhere near a data center, rural town.
If you have fiber and live near a data center, maybe it works better now. Most people on this planet do not. And if I want to play the latest AAA game in all its glory, I want to do that without compression artifacts, HDR calibrated for my TV, uncompressed 5.1/7.1 sound.
Anyway even that isn't getting me to play the latest AAA games anymore since I mostly play in VR now where latency means everything. |
Yeah, I have 2Gbps fiber, and I'm relatively near to closest GeForce NOW server, so neither latency nor bandwidth (which can be really high for quality image) are issue.
That said, nothing will beat local hardware when it comes to either, but I find that it's nice to have an option that works, if I ever need one for whatever reason.
