Re: GeForce NOW on SteamDeck

On 5/30/2025 7:46 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 29 May 2025 20:01:41 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:
 

Luna & PS+ streaming both work, but yeah both are a bit laggy.  Barely
noticeable, but it's noticeable.

 It's the same with GFN. It's good enough that it really doesn't
interfere (well, unless you're some super-tweaked teen playing
professional Starcraft or something ;-) but it's there.
 It's like UHD displays. If you really, REALLY look you can sense the
difference, but for most uses it's not a problem. For adventure,
strategy, RPGs and even most action games that don't require
single-frame accuracy, you can live with it.
>

Well, I think it made a difference on Bloodborne, that one Batman Arkham game, God of War (the new one,) some driving games.  But I can't say for sure since I never played them locally.  I do have Bloodborne on the PS5 now, so I could give it a try, if I can liberate it from my son's room, which may not be worth the hassle.  I don't really feel like playing it again yet either.

Which is itself quite amazing. I remember when streaming first was
introduced; anybody else remember "The Phantom" console? It came out
in 2003, but between the low-bandwidth and high-latency of most
residential Internet, it was dead in the water from the start. A lot
of gamers never thought the idea would catch on at all (of course,
back then the idea that we would all gladly sacrifice our video game
libraries to to the whims of corporate behemoths who could pull the
license at any time seemed equally unlikely).
 But now cloud-gaming is a real, workable thing... and may in the
not-to-distant future, supplant 'real' gaming.

Wouldn't it be great if they could pre-render all those graphics and put them on the local computer, and then send the program to it so that it could get the inputs faster?
Oh wait.
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