I mean, of course battery life is better when you’re essentially just streaming video…
I read the headline and made a bad assumption that would have been corrected if I read the article.
That’s awesome! I never installed this crap on Windows, now I get to skip installing it on Linux. Keep up the good work.If you’re diligent you could be looking at decades of not installing crap!
just in case this is not the GPU management app, this is the streaming service.
Oh, I see now. This is actually pretty cool then.
Um yay, I guess. I’m always for more options. And maybe there is a market out there for the “game from the cloud” idea. Personally though, I’d rather just play a game on the Steam Deck directly. Or, if that’s somehow not an option, stream the game from my own PC to my TV via SteamLink. In no world do I want to pay for a subscription to play games on a device where I can just play that game locally.
If you have the ability to play every game you’d want, then yeah you likely have no need for this. But I’ve used GeForce Now to either play games on low-spec PCs or for a period of time when I only had access to a MacBook. Also, not every game will run on Linux (or if it does it may not perform quite as well), so that’s another potential use case.
What would be the point of streaming a game at 4K onto an 800p display?
Probably for docked Decks attached to a 4K TV/Display.
In dock mode I assume.
The next four words in the article explains it… “Connected to a TV”
You save the extra pixels for later
Oh hell yes!
Now to get off this third world Internet (Northern California)
Spectrum/Comcast: Wha? Us?
I was down in Texas for Dreamhack last week at the LAN. On the drive back, my car passenger was able to take my shitty laptop, connect to his phone hotspot, and he used the GeForce streaming service to play a steam game for a good 4+ hours.
Fuck Nvidia, but the service is okay in a pinch. I will never use it, but I see the appeal for people that don’t have gaming computers.
I’ve subbed a few times over the years. Usually one off summer months when I want to game but don’t want to turn on a really hot PC without AC. Or when they give some big deal for 6 months. It’s high quality and very responsive for me. Good to see a Steam Deck app. Going to check sometime if they do any limitations on Linux installations that aren’t detected as a Steam Deck
I’d be tempted giving it a shot, since it has a free tier, if it didn’t involve giving my personal and steam data to nvidia of all companies.
Self hosted Sunshine and Moonlight is the way to go.
Ewwwwwwwww
