There’s a public beta for macs. It’s dope as fuck. Like smooth as the fucking butter. Integrates with steam and battle.net. So you can play your games. Free in beta. I’ve been telling everyone I know about it. I can play pubg on ultra settings. There’s an extremely occasional skip but playing natively would do that too. I know I sound like a shill but it’s been a while since a product let alone beta blew me away this much.
I wonder how they did it cause the latency is very small. But maybe I’m just a noob.
On an tangential note this product has insane potential. Like they could do their own steam and basically own the whole gaming pipeline from the publishing to the platform users play on.
"What is it?":
> 1. WHAT IS THE GEFORCE NOW™ FOR MAC® FREE BETA? GeForce NOW for Mac beta is a new service from NVIDIA that connects you to a powerful GeForce GTX gaming PC in the cloud, turning your Mac into a powerful gaming rig. We’ve launched a free beta of this service. so you can try it out at no charge. The GeForce NOW beta app will require you to log in to Steam to install games included in our list of supported games. You must already own or purchase these games to play them.
Other interesting note: 10. HOW MANY GAMES CAN I INSTALL? Install as many of your games as you like. GeForce NOW game storage is unlimited.
I can't wait for UK/EU, thanks for this.
Definitely trying it out tonight.
Steam refused to install DOOM (the recent reboot) and COD Black Ops II. Not a failed attempt - a dialog popped up declining to install. Maybe there's a license deal behind the scenes that governs that.
Very cool that it worked at all. I had a playable game during a screen-sharing telecon on the same machine. For science only, of course.
I have gigabit fiber so that might help a little with the overall experience but I'd be willing to pay a good amount of money for this as a service.
I'm ABSOLUTELY FLOORED. Like, to the point where I' debating selling my gaming PC if I can get a better internet connection to reduce the input lag a bit. But even with that, the input lag is barely noticeable.
I'm playing Destiny 2, highest graphics settings, at 1920x1080, totally smoothly.... on my 2012 MacBook.
This is a game changer. Thanks for the suggestion!!
I feel I need to tell everyone I know about this.
But there are services too