Stadia, the on-demand gaming platform designed by Google that allows you to play AAA video games without having a power freak in the house, has some concern. nVidia, which had announced a similar service, called GeForce Now, has just hit hard by offering its service for free.
With limitations however, but the offer is there and allows you to test the service without spending a cent, with sessions of one hour. A paid plan, without limitation and offering RayTracing rendering on compatible games, is billed at 5,49 € per month.
The GeForce Now concept
“Over 1,2 billion gamers have made the PC the world's largest gaming platform, but only a fraction have a modern PC with the power to play their favorite games. " introduced nVidia to present its new service. Concretely, you have to start with a registration phase at this address: https://www.nvidia.com/fr-fr/geforce-now/
You have two choices: Free membership provides one hour sessions with standard access to GeForce NOW servers. There is no limit to the number of sessions you can play. You can therefore play 24 one-hour sessions per day. Paid access allows you not to "queue" to access the service. Paid members have an extended session duration of up to six hours. They will also have exclusive access to RTX content.
You are then invited to download a connection client, which will interface with your virtual office, to manage the service. This client is available on PC, Mac, nVidia Shield or Android devices. You can add all the games in your Steam library, without restriction! At the time of the test, here in the countryside with an ADSL connection offering 10 Mbits / s in download and 0,8 in upload, the stream is suitably carried out in 1280 × 720 with surprising reactivity. It is recommended to have at least 15 Mbits / s in downstream flow to benefit from the Full HD 1920 × 1080 mode. In any case, GeForce Now does not currently allow streaming at higher resolutions. I was able to test Farming Simulator 19 in "very high" graphics mode on a pc without a dedicated graphics card. What better. On mobile, same observation.
For these beginnings, nVidia hits hard with a service allowing you to play its entire game library, where Google offers only a meager catalog for Stadia. In addition, it is not necessary to purchase any additional peripherals to use GeForce Now. Hopefully the service continues to perform well as players come to test and play on the platform.
