The Steam Deck, nay Linux, is crying out for an official GeForce Now app

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• PHLAK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, it isn’t.

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• Stampela@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Comments here are fun, seem a 3 way split between people thinking it’s GeForce Experience, game stream, and finally the actual cloud streaming service running your own Steam games.

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  • mordack550@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah it’s crazy. I don’t see what’s negative in having a GeForce Now app on Steam Deck, it’s always better to have choices.

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  • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nvidia have truly outdone themselves in their effort to make the most confusing marketing decisions. They looked at Nintendo’s success at misinforming consumers to think the Wii U was just an addon to the Wii and thought “we can do this better, we have the power of the cloud”.

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  • Heavybell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah yeah, I also thought it was talking about that awful fucking thing I used to opt not to install alongside my geforce drivers.

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    • Stampela@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Back when I had a 1060 3gb it was awesome! Always giving me nearly flawless settings for games, now with a 3060… we have very strong disagreements about the ideal settings.

      That said yeah, a random software to install, that requires a new account and all for the privilege of installing the drivers? Hard sell.

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    • regbin_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nvidia: Creates a whole new app for driver updates and ShadowPlay.

      Also Nvidia: Creates the most half-assed GPU tuner in the app.

      Seriously I can’t even undervolt without a third party app. Once PyTorch + ROCm comes to Windows I’m switching back to AMD.

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As Linux gains in popularity for gaming, there will be endless articles about corporate stuff from the Windows world that Linux users clearly cannot live without. But the fact is, Linux is gaining ground in part because it does not have them. The simplicity of it all, especially on AMD, is light years ahead of the kind of ecosystem Nvidia and others may want to continue to force down consumers’ throats.

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• mino@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I’m very much in favor of not having all the shitty bloatware that comes with modern windows gaming. You need the latest audio driver? How about we bundle our shitty game launcher with it?!

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• ironcrotch@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Haha subscription? No thanks

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• 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.

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  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You're describing GeForce experience.

    GeForce Now is the cloud gaming service.

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    • 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?

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• hogart@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it now? I don’t hear anything. Gimme an official Xbox Game Pass app tho! Sure it’s easy enough to work arround but official apps are guud!

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a Steam Deck. Connected to Steam. I don’t think many people are suffering from a shortage of Steam games to play.

  “Yes, Andrew Fear (great name by the way), when I finish playing the 500 games already in my library, and start playing the 200 I already own but haven’t started yet… which all work on it… I mean, yeah, I’ll definitely look at whatever it is you’re on about”

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  • Stampela@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not a subscription plan with games, it’s a cloud service running the (supported, stuff about licensing) games you already own on Steam.

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    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah sorry, my misunderstanding. Though, isn’t that just built into Steam anyway?

      You know what, I’m going to read up on it myself, so as to be less wrong in future!

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why would Nvidia support hardware that has fuck all to do with Nvidia?

  www.steamdeck.com/en/tech

  Processor

  AMD APU CPU: Zen 2 4c/8t, 2.4-3.5GHz (up to 448 GFlops FP32) GPU: 8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1.0-1.6GHz (up to 1.6 TFlops FP32) APU power: 4-15W

  RAM

  16 GB LPDDR5 on-board RAM (5500 MT/s quad 32-bit channels)

  Storage

  64 GB eMMC (PCIe Gen 2 x1) 256 GB NVMe SSD (PCIe Gen 3 x4 or PCIe Gen 3 x2*) 512 GB high-speed NVMe SSD (PCIe Gen 3 x4 or PCIe Gen 3 x2*)

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  • lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    GeForce Now is Nvidia’s game streaming service. It has nothing to do with their graphics cards.

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  • hansmeiser666@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • mordack550@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Geforce Now is a cloud streaming app, you can already use Nvidia Gamestream on deck with moonlight.

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• huginn@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Heads up for anyone still using steam streaming and an Nvidia card.

  Install Moonlight and run that instead. Way smoother experience overall.

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  • tsuica@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t you need a PC for that?

    GFN allows you to play on NVIDIA’s servers.

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    • huginn@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes but others are talking about steam streaming, which is also my comment here.

      It’s tangential but worth calling out in this discussion, especially as you can do remote play with moonlight (haven’t personally tried it though)

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  • PHLAK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I do believe Moonlight is a bit better but Steam Streaming has been reliable and high enough quality for me not to care enough to use Moonlight most of the time.

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    • huginn@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve played 100 hours of Elden Ring streaming and the difference between steam and moonlight is night and day in my experience. Steam struggled to hit 60fps streaming (definitely not the computer’s fault: it’s their streaming codecs or something) while moonlight is rock steady 60fps.

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• RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Even a chromium browser doesnt work well. It doesnt use hardware acceleration, so high bitrate and resolution are out of the question. When you DO force use hardware acceleration, the video you receive misses a part of the dark black colors, so the video is darker and games that are already dark, are completely unplayable. This has been an issue for years and i have worked on the issue myself but this is not fixable on the user side. And nvidia doesnt care.

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• AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, not really…

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t be opposed to it existing but that’s it. Never been a fan of game streaming myself.

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• BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m surprised there isn’t something already with how google has been marketing gaming on Chromebooks via streaming services.

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  • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The weird Chromebook situation is clearly a result of them shutting down Stadia when other teams were still intending to integrate with it.

    Perhaps the Chromebook executables can be made to work on Linux?

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  • wallmenis@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There is moonlight and sunshine and you can use xcloud via microsoft edge on the steam deck.

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