Comment on The Steam Deck, nay Linux, is crying out for an official GeForce Now app
ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 1 year ago
What does GeForce NOW offer that isn't already on Linux? My drivers are updated automatically, and streaming through Moonlight/Sunshine is incredibly easy to setup. Okay, GeForce NOW can customize the settings of all of my games, but I've literally never used that feature because the settings they suggest are awful anyway.
conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 year ago
You're describing GeForce experience.
GeForce Now is the cloud gaming service.
ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 1 year ago
Oh! I had never heard of that. My mistake. Is that different than Moonlight/Sunshine game steaming? Does it stream from the internet like (the now defunct) Stadia rather than a local machine?
conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 year ago
It's stadia but without the bullshit where you have to buy games just for their platform.
It also works better.
Anamana@feddit.de 1 year ago
It’s like stadia but in good
PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
As someone with “founder” status in both services, Stadia’s user experience was far better. It also had the best latency with its direct connect controllers.
While GeForce Now made some steps towards mitigation and cooperation, with 2FA it’s often still a mess of tediously logging into PC launchers before finally being able to play. And because the hardware changes every time, this repeats before every session.
GFN’s library of compatible games is still stupidly limited, yet has all remaining competitors beat by a wide margin. And it has by far the most powerful hardware.
Both of those things probably make it the best streaming service right now, and outweigh the shortcomings. But “good” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.