It was tested: Nvidia’s GeForce is now breathing a new life on my deck

I don’t want to games for another subscription service It continues to rise in the price. I don’t want to put more strength in the hands of NVIDIA, Especially now.

But I cannot deny that the company of $ 20 a month is now almost perfect for the steam surface. I have covered the Cloud Gaming for 15 years, and this is the first time I wanted to continue playing indefinitely.

The portable portable has already become my favorite way to play games. The steam surface is comfortable and easy to capture whenever the mood is hit. But unprecedented on the desktop or an aging desktop with the latest titles. Clear mysterious: Campaign 33 and Portal Portal 3 It can look like a mysterious chaos on the deck, and I have not seen it before Lakeand RTX Gate and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle In all their glory, the beam follows the RTX 3060 TI desktop.

But today, with Nafidia GEFORCE Now app is now released For the steam surface, I can play each of these titles in the settings close to a tax, anywhere in my home, for hours and hours on a shipment. And if you lay the steam surface on my 4K TV, it can take out the graphics that follow 4k60 HDR and/or track the rays PS5 Pro For shame.

When we tested the last major upgrade of GeForce in 2023Tom and I agreed that it was not completely On an equal footing with playing on an original computer.

But on the surface of Bukhari, where I play on a low -resolution screen by hand or sit across the room from a TV where I do not notice a lot of defects, you may feel like the best in the two worlds.

This is what Campaign 33 It appears to run on my deck today, opposite the deck with GeForce now:

This may be the best part: While Handhelds like Steam Deck hardly get two hours of this game at Potato Graphic settings, I can get 7 to 8 hours of GeForce now. I have seen a 49.2 -watt cloud service with a 49.2 -watt battery, barely more than the system consumes in lethargy.

And the new original application makes it Sench, with No more web browser solutionsSimply press the power button and switch to the desktop, download the application, run it, and wipe the QR codes with your phone to connect your various accounts.

Oh, it is better to believe that there are warnings. Giaint Gaping Gotcha Galore, which I will explain as we go. But after testing the service for about two weeks, I began to believe in cloud games again.

Now, you may ask: How am I playing A game in which timing is very important Through a remote control device? Here’s the first great warning: You need a low-constructive internet or a good Wi-Fi router or wireless Ethernet, and you need to be within the range of NVIDIA servers in order to make magic. The download speed is not a key: it must be 50 MB per second for 4K, and you can stay away from less.

But I am armed with AT & T Fiber connection, and I live perhaps 30 minutes from Nvidia’s San Jose, California, which makes me the best scenario of this technology. However, NVIDIA has more than 35 data centers around the world, including 14 distinguished sites in the United States, and my colleagues with Xfinity and Spectrum Cable Internet in Portland and Brusslin tells me Campaign 33 I played completely for them.

“The cumin was so little that I was not missing,” Cameron Volkner tells meHe said that he mastered the sad militants in the first attempt. Jay Peters I found that we needed to set our time a little, but I finished playing nearly half of the game on GeForce now and I have never seen back.

Even with the best connections, though, GeForce is now not a bulletproof. Once or twice a day, the stable playing session apparently will be briefly revealed in a volatile chaos.

In one player games like Campaign 33 and Indiana Jones I can easily forgive a few minutes of trouble, but my colleagues Antonio de Bandeto and Eric Gomez Watch it in stable pingling archers where delay can be a greater problem. Antonio says: “I have seen a handful of later nails / hiccups that would definitely spoil anyone in a competitive shooter, but fortunately they were not at the worst time and soon calm down,” Antonio says.

You can also give up some of the transmission of the steam surface. Although you can connect the steam surface and separate it from a TV berth and switch smoothly between the large screen and run the small screen, you can not only put the steam surface to sleep without finishing the session and the loss of unproductive progress. (Unlike, say, Shiaki.) Although GeForce Nains supports 4K60, which is a large leap of 1440 pixels, you may find yourself staring at a small text because it does not expand the user interface appropriately.

When talking about transportation, the general Wi-Fi network is generally not good enough for GeForce now, and there are no cellular connections-even with four tapes of Verizon 5G UWB service and a USB wireless on my phone, my stream quickly deteriorated to the mixture you see below. Just the best cellular connection in my entire neighborhood, a spot directly under the 5G tower where I can get 1200 MB and 30 milliseconds, I felt to play for me.

You may have noticed a stars* or two earlier in this story, when I said I was testing a $ 20 service per month that gives you the power of GeForce RTX 4080. That is because NVIDIA GeForce now now has a technically, up to SubPar level, and I strongly recommend you to ignore, even just playing on Steam Deck.

For me, it was the difference between playing Campaign 33 Through a clean window, or a dirty window. (Epic specifications, original accuracy, for medium specifications, 50 percent resolution with DLSS). It is the difference between playing Lake and Indiana Jones On the deck screen with full rays tracking, or nothing at all and some graphic concessions of the boot. It is the difference between a comfortable stretch to 4K with some dLSS tricks, or not.

But it may be the biggest warning with GeFORCE outside the company’s control: you must bring your own games, however you can only bring the games in which NVIDIA has explicitly distributed a distribution deal.

NVIDIA made a progress: 165 of my Steam games 457 is now available to play, up from 85 years ago. The company offers more than 2100 games via EPIC, Battle.net, Ubisoft, Xbox and Goog as well. But Nvidia does not have Sony games, so I don’t play Heldivers 2There are no games from Rockstar, so I’m not playing GTA V or Red Dead Redemption 2no Twono Pubgno The first table or Football manager or FIFA or The American Professional League or Sims. We never know the games you will get GEFORCE now, or when, or if they are It may disappear.

Gloud Gaming has never felt a better deal, and now after the service has matured, and now, the hand can take advantage of such a good use of it, and now after that Buying your graphics processing unit is an expensive suggestion that is ridiculed. Maybe I will postpone the next GPU upgrade in favor of subscription.

But it is not for everyone – you must definitely try a final corridor of $ 8 now – and still there A lot of mental friction. I am not looking until the day that Nafidia It changes the deal more.