• [News] GeForce cloud-based graphics card for Mac Steam

    From Your Name@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 1 17:05:13 2017
    XPost: comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.misc

    From PCAuthority.com.au ...

    GeForce Now just made Mac gaming a whole lot easier
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    Nvidia's cloud gaming tech unlocks your Steam account on macOS.

    Gaming on a laptop is never fun, but doubly so if that laptop
    is a MacBook. MacOS has only recently started playing nicely
    with Steam, and even then Apple's operating system is pretty
    selective about which titles it'll run. GeForce Now solves both
    those problems, offloading the heavy lifting to a graphics card
    in the cloud.

    The service offers GTX 1080-class performance in over 100 games,
    including big names that haven't yet made the jump to macOS like
    Player Unknown's Battlegrounds, Blizzard's Overwatch and The
    Witcher 3. 30ms lag means you'd struggle to notice you're
    watching a video instead of raw gameplay (trust us, we've tried
    it) and because everything is stored in the cloud, you don't
    have to wait ages for your games to install either. Just log
    into your Steam or battle.net account, click play, and you're
    away. Controller support is a bit iffy right now (thanks, macOS)
    but Nvidia has a few workarounds if you can't survive with mouse
    and keyboard alone.

    The best bit? While it's in beta, GeForce Now will be completely
    free - so there's no excuse for missing out on play time when
    you're away from your beefy gaming PC.

    The worst bit? Good luck getting this to work here in Australia,
    as the minimum connection required is 25Mbps, while Nvidia
    recommends 50Mbps for the best performance. And, on top of that,
    you really do need to be close the servers - which are so far
    only in North America and Europe.

    Oh well.

    <https://www.pcauthority.com.au/news/geforce-now-just-made-mac-gaming-a-whole-lot-easier-476622>

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