What is GeForce Now? Does it have a future?

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what

the hell is g force now.

We'll talk about that in a second, the other thing is that Nvidia didn't sponsor this video, they had nothing to do with this video. I

have

n't even talked to them since the 20-something release and they're all mad at me. That this is literally my perspective. I installed it. I wonder

what

the hell this is. Well, sure, let's make a video about this now. I also know Kyle made a video that did really well, so I'm looking forward to spreading the word. We're obviously interested in this, so let's talk about what G-force is now. It's a cloud-based gaming service, it's not a new concept, but probably the only company big enough that could

have

pulled this off is Nvidia in terms of processing power.

Then there's Google Stadia, which has been a complete failure as far as people are concerned, but about 5 years ago I made a video about a service that never existed, even though they promised it would and it never happened, and that was Leap's Cloud Gate Computing and then. That all fell by the wayside, but what happened is that technology advanced as internet speeds increased, and while the United States is still in a state of disarray, so to speak, when it comes to the consistency of Internet providers and ISPs throughout the country. fast internet connections, data caps and all that kind of stuff, it's getting better, however, this service is something that uses the internet, so if you have data caps and speed caps, this will probably still be a bit disappointing for you, but move forward with g force is now a cloud based gaming service, what

does

that mean?

It means that there are a bunch of servers online that then have all your games installed and running and then stream them to the computer you are the end user on so you can view them. Now, why will latency, internet speed, bandwidth and reliability be more important than anything to do with specifications? Basically, look at it this way: a very, very large, very robust version of Steam streaming when you have a computer on your network that has a game installed on it and you start Steam on another computer that

does

n't have that game installed. but it says you can stream it from that PC to yours, well that's it, but it's extremely robust and it's more than just Steam obviously now there are some licensing issues that are still waiting to be resolved, I think with some epic games or EA or Origin and then not all the games are there, so obviously the library in my opinion is a little limited, but these are the type of things that grow over time and I think Nvidia invests any type of energy and cost into This means we can see it mature unlike other services that have emerged and then simply fall by the wayside now that GeForce is now actually a free service. service, but there is a paid service called founders.

I mean they really loved using that term for $4.99 a month which gives you a perceived increase in hardware specs, if you remember this is all running off a server so again it's a very large version like what Linus did with a PC 20 gamers, so you get portions of hardware dedicated to virtual machines that you connect to and basically you get a virtual machine that you can connect to and stream The game is up to you in terms of hardware coding and specs and all that kind of stuff, they're a little vague. We'll take a look here in the Steam system configurator to see if it tells us what it is. but we do know what founders service our TX says it's on, so we know they're going to be at least on our TX 20 60 or higher in terms of what their gaming experience would be, so this is GeForce right now here.

Just put a couple of games in the library. I have payday 2 there, lonely downhill mountains that only pay tribute to Steve. Steve is a downhill mountain biker guy, so I figured why not do that. He has which of the three half of life is destiny. also, so we'll do a couple of titles here, but it's just an app that runs on the client side and when you launch a game it will tell you that it will launch you into the launcher, so if it's a Steam game, for example. It will activate and you will be connected to a remote client at that point, so let's go ahead and go to Half-Life 2.

Now yes, this system is running a Titan RT , what you need to realize right now is that this system does nothing more than decode a video stream coming to it and send packets back and forth for user input, so what it's doing right now is to analyze. Our internet is now on Ethernet we are on a non-mirrored gigabit coaxial connection so we only have 25 megabits of upload which is more than enough for our gaming experience. It is recommended, I think it said, 15 megabits of downstream for 720p 60 FPS gaming and 25 megabits for 1080p 60 fps, but you can configure that in the settings and we will show you that you can also configure for low latency, balanced and competitive graphics quality, so you can adjust your connection a little to try to get as little as possible. possible latency, the service will connect to the server closest to you with the best latency and it does so in that latency test that you just saw obviously when we were in the Los Angeles area, it connected us to a Southwest server and they will even tell us during that test what is our ping, we are getting a constant value of 17 milliseconds here because, again, we are on coax, not fiber.

If we were on fire, that would probably be closer to 5, but the problem is inherent to cloud-based gaming. It's latency and in any type of shooter game, having extra latency can usually completely change the game. after where he actually was, it's like that whole netcode thing with Battlefield 4 again like, oh, I'm shooting where the guy was, but he's here now, but it's actually not that bad, so I'm starting only with Half-Life 2. because this is a very simple game and I think it's gaining popularity again simply thanks to Half-Life Alex, so now I don't want to launch Half-Life 2.

It forces me to install it, but it's not installing on my it's installing on the server, but luckily when it comes to installing it it's very much like a giant supercomputer version of that terrestrial cache we showed for the Dreamhack setup where all the games are already on the servers, just you have to connect to it. and install it, which is pretty instant, so it's only six gigabytes. I'm just saying that was huge back in the day, but six gigabytes today, even in the sea of ​​a 10 megabit connection, it's going to take you a while to still download 60 gigabytes.

You would probably spend half an hour or maybe an hour or more trying to download it. I know math very well, but the moment I press next, look at this, look at the download speed, okay, it said 100 megabytes or 95 megabytes. peak per second, that's simply due to the fact that you never had a chance to turn it all the way down to increase your download speed and all I did was grab it from your own server, so now we can press play to see how good they were these LG speakers. Very well, Half-Life 2, it is true that yes, it can be played on a potato.

Yes, we are doing it on this 9900 K which is very capable of clearly decoding an h.264 1080p 60 fps signal, but what I want when I want to test now is the latency. Which we're testing first because we have to see what happens when we go from an admittedly over-the-top gaming PC to a PC that normally couldn't play this game let alone Destiny 2 on its own. It's not the same as if we were playing locally. there's a latency of at least 17 milliseconds when we did the testing, the network testing when we first set this up, okay, that shows.

Well that will be up to you, honestly I only noticed it because I've been playing shooters for so long. I notice any extra input lag, which is what it feels like because that's what we're actually doing after we see something on the screen and then when we make the move and it hits the screen or sets. to the server process and it is sent back to us in the form of motion, there is latency, it's fine so far, oh, I'm walking and all that is not fine, so if you go to the settings here, this is where you can see how you can changing the particular settings here to try to make your latency as good as possible, so we're set to balance what it looks like, is good image quality with good gameplay and by gameplay, I think they mean latency honestly, but that uses about 10 gigabits per hour of actual data, so if we go down to the data server or data saver, that's if you have much less connectivity or, let's say, data caps, but you can still use up to 6 gigabytes per hour or 4 gigabytes per hour, so one thing we're going to do right now: we're going to disable vsync because I'm curious if that will help our latency a little bit because vsync can create latency on the local client side that it's doing. the pairing. on the server it's just going to compose, so we'll do it now if you want to know what your actual connection is, it's set to automatic.

We're currently on Southwest, but if we click test network, we'll do that test again. 14 right now, so that's good, it tells us: we're everywhere we need to be, there's more than 50 megabits per second for the best experience, we haven't lost any frames, we need to lose less than 2 frames and then recommend is less. half frame I hate when only half the frame is drawn anyway latency here let's say you are required to have less than 80 milliseconds of latency it is recommended that you have less than 4 so clearly we are doing it right so if you have a fiber network and everything will definitely be fine, so let's go ahead and turn on a game here.

I don't think they have the best system in terms of finding your games, for example. I wish they had a great network. list here are all the games there, no, if you say: um, do they have a battlefield? You have one click to search battlefield, no, okay, how about Doom Quake for RTX comes out? So it's not the largest and most robust library, but in theory it will grow. because NVIDIA has invested money in this right, so what about CS Counter Strike global Offensive? I mean, can you imagine if they didn't have that oh wow, that's bad, isn't it like it's a big stutter?

It's okay, it's back, it's okay now. I wonder if it's because Honestly, we disabled vsync, yeah, they don't even move. I can't hit it, so one thing we did now was go ahead and turn vsync back on in the app to see if that eliminates some of the stuttering. and the agitation we were having to fully publish this when I was playing on this on a different computer, one that doesn't have as high specs as this one, I wasn't experiencing any agitation or stuttering at all. Well, there is a big stutter, yeah, not good. CSGO probably isn't a title I'd take too seriously on GeForce right now, but this is probably one of the most competitive titles I could imagine when it comes to latency being important, it's already better than Counter-Strike, yeah somewhat i was weird with csgo, yeah i mean okay, right now i'm already concentrating more on the game than my inputs, like there's lag or latency, but it's manageable, that's the best way to say it, this is unbalanced.

It looks good if this had been my first experience. I would have a very different opinion than I did with CSGO, but as we already said, this computer is not a fair representation. I think about the average clientele who would be interested in GeForce now. How about we actually turn it into a cumulative test against the hardware? Yes, this is perfect. I am not this. This is a surface. I think it's something to remember. A long time ago. There is no chance this computer can play destiny. I mean, the screen sucks more if that makes sense.

I'm seeing ghosting but that's the screens fault not the system or the service and it's not even hot that's what it is it's not even hot guys it's not playing. Playing avideo, yes, so there is a small amount of stuttering. Now that you walk in and see what you think you're playing on this machine, I mean, maybe it's just a slight amount of confusion, but Very doable, is it worth it? The goal of this video was not to try to make that decision for you. You have to do it on your own, but the best part is that you can try it for free because there are two services. there are the founders which are $4.99 a month which gives you priority access to the queue so if you've ever tried to log in like in a Blizzard game where there's a queue and you have to wait until it's your turn to get priority access to that on that line and then with the free program you don't have to wait if there's no queue, but you only get one hour play sessions, where the founders get six hours and at the end of that session you have to start a new one If there is no line, you just go. back to your game, if there is a queue you wait until your turn is over, that is something that will happen and will become more frequent if the service starts to be adopted more and given the fact that it is free and many people find it difficult to build or get parts or PCs right now moving forward as we have all this disruption in the industry there's no reason why you shouldn't try it for free I mean we did and that's why we decided to make this video but it will give you I can say right now.

It works in the sense that we could take a system like this Surface Book or convertible Surface Tablet. He is not a professional. Do I have a discrete graphics card or whatever is available in the high end model? I could have played games I never would have had the chance to. I could have sat here and played through Fate a bit and I think the type of game this service makes the most sense for as an adventure game, indie games would probably be perfectly fine. like that downhill game we showed at the beginning things that are extremely sensitive, where an example of a twitcher is like csgo, you have to be able to respond by moving the mouse quickly, shoot and have the best latency possible. to achieve those kinds of shots, you're not going to be doing competitive gaming at all, but that's not what it's intended for, it's intended to be able to play games on the go, not only on your computer, but you can also play on your PC . games on a Mac because it has a version of Mac OS, you can do it on a shield like a type of tablet, you know the Nvidia Shield gaming tablet, which is a portable device and your Android device, so if you have an Android device that has controller connected to it, you can play on your particular, you know some of those adventure type games anywhere you have an internet connection that is decent enough, we already showed you what the requirements are on that, so my only recommendation for You, honestly, it would be just try it, sign up for free if you don't like it, it didn't cost you anything, if you like it and use it all the time then maybe consider upgrading to Founder's, it's the price of one called mug. of coffee a month, but I'm glad to see Nvidia taking the courage if you really want to go ahead with this because a lot of people expect Stadia to be something great and it really wasn't.

This is already better than Stadia and it's only going to grow because once Nvidia at least starts investing money in something we already know, they'll stick with it no matter what I mean, that's kind of the right thing about RDX, although the People weren't necessarily adopting it, they're seeing it as the

future

well, okay, a lot of people are adopting RDX, let's be honest, but they see it as the

future

of GPU performance and GPU technology. Now they're doing the same thing using all the awesome deep learning stuff they have. I created all the server level stuff and now I'm using it to bring games to people that otherwise wouldn't have been available at the time I'm making this video, although it's only available in North America and Europe, so if you're in one of the countries that has a hard time getting PC hardware, you will have a hard time getting this for now, and it's probably just down to the quality of the data center, to be honest, the data center has to be able to serve this, obviously . with the highest quality, otherwise you will have a bad experience that will simply reflect negatively on the entire technology, so I am happy to see five years later after I was supposed to do something with a company that ended up going to Me It bothered to see that at least now it's happening, so sign up in the comments below, try it on your system for free again.

Inveted did not sponsor this video, they have nothing to do with this video, but I'm curious, try it below. what game did you try and what are your pc specs and how did it work try doing it with the worst possible pc you can find guys thanks for watching and as always see you next time.