![]() ![]() I'm seeing more visual artefacting as the stream hits a blip and downgrades the visuals to compensate. Both of which are plumbed into a Shield device with an Xbox pad attached to them.īizarrely, my home experience has been the stronger, despite a wired machine in the Bath office that purports to have a blazing fast connection. ![]() Then, at home, I can either play on the 4K TV with HDR or fling it up onto my 4K projector for BIG WITCHER ENERGY. Through the GFN app, however, I can turn everything on-yes, even Geralt's flowing Hairworks locks-and happily play on the 40-inch ultrawide attached to it. I could play the game on my RX 6800 XT-powered gaming rig in the office, but it doesn't love the extra pretties the update has added and delivers low, stuttering frame rates at best. I can turn everything on-yes, even Geralt's flowing Hairworks locks.Īnd that's how I've used GFN, especially with The Witcher 3. You can task the GeForce Now app with remembering your personal configs on each game, but that does negate the ability to play on different devices while sharing cloud saves. So sometimes you'll have to play with the settings, enabling ray tracing and HDR, for example, when you boot up a game. Geralt popped up supremely low-res the first time I booted the game (and occasionally still does) and Crysis first appeared in a 768p Window. Especially if you've forgotten which damned button you need to long-press.Īnd then sometimes you'll boot into a game that isn't running at the right resolution. If you've a mouse attached that's fine, but on GeForce Now via the Shield Android TV tube you need to briefly enable mouse mode on your pad to navigate the Windows-based screens, which is a bit awkward. Then hitting 'play' again on the subsequent CDPR launcher. On GFN that means booting into Steam (desktop via the PC app or Big Picture on Android) and clicking on the game you've already clicked on to play. Like on a standard PC, however, you still need to navigate the launchers. The next-gen The Witcher 3 update has given me all the excuse I need to restart the game from scratch, and I've been having a blast. And that means all the hoops we PC gamers take for granted. For all intents and purposes you're booting into a limited PC session and running games from your own Epic, Ubisoft, or Steam accounts. Even via the dedicated applications you still almost inevitably run into some very PC issues. Not so Google Stadia.So, what's it like to use? Well, it's not quite seamless. ![]() In principle, there are 70-72 shader multiprocessors per cloud process, slightly down from the 76 found in the graphics card.Īt least this feature is alive. ![]() The L40 has 48 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, and since each data-centric GPU has two cloud instances, that makes 24 GB available for each. The server machine was a 16-core AMD Ryzen processor machine with 28GB of central RAM, and it might have an L40 data-centric GPU built on the Ada Lovelace architecture, equivalent to the RTX 4080. Interestingly, in the case of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the GeForce Now achieved a better result at 4K, as its 137 average FPS outperformed the video card’s 134 FPS. At 1080p, the stream averaged 107 FPS, the real RTX 4080 averaged 157 FPS (46.7% difference), and the 1440p difference is questionable, as the 80.5% difference is too significant. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy didn’t allow 4K resolution (although GeForce Now has permitted it for quite some time…). At 4K, GeForce Now averaged 37.7 FPS, and the graphics card solution was 38.1% better at 52.1 FPS on average. At 1440p, the gap narrows slightly, with GeForce Now Ultimate averaging 78.1 FPS and the physical PC 37.1% higher at 107.1 FPS. In Cyberpunk 2077, GeForce Now Ultimate averaged 92.8 FPS, while the GPU solution washed it off the field (53.6% higher performance: 142.6 FPS) at 1080p resolution. Playing in the cloud doesn’t allow you to run software test programs (e.g., 3DMark), but you can rely on the benchmark options of games. Germany’s HardwareLuxx immediately started testing the performance and concluded that GeForce Now doesn’t bring the level of performance that an RTX 4080 GPU can. In addition to Los Angeles, San Jose, and Dallas in the US, Nvidia has started rolling out its GeForce Now RTX 4080 SuperPODs to Frankfurt, Germany. ![]()
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