Geforce now, nvidia launches its streaming gaming service

After a long beta phase and having been announced three years ago at CES 2017, Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming gaming service is finally launched on PC.

GeForce Now Launches with a Library of 400 Games

GeForce Now seems to be a stronger proposition than Google Stadia in every way, from game selection to price. It is available both free and paid, with a premium level of "Founders" that costs only $ 5 a month.

How does it work?

Nvidia offers GeForce Now clients for PCs, Macs, Android phones, and Android TVs (including its own excellent Nvidia Shield console). Soon, they will also launch a WebRTC-based client so you can play games via streaming on Chromebooks. Apple mobile devices are not supported at the moment.

Nvidia optimizes GeForce Now games to run well at 60 frames per second with 1080p resolution. It should be noted that there is no support for 4K as in Google Stadia.

The service offers a variety of transmission quality presets. Balanced uses 10GB of data per hour and offers the best combination of image quality and response. Data saver only uses 4GB per hour, which requires some compromises, but still promises "good image quality". Competitive uses 6GB and is purely focused on reducing latency, sacrificing visual quality for responsiveness when needed. You can also configure the transmission settings in a personalized way, adjusting the resolution, the bit rate, the V-Sync and if you want to transmit at 60 fps or 30 fps.

The Nvidia service does not sell you any games. Instead, GeForce Now leverages your existing game libraries from Steam, Uplay, the EPIC game store, and the like, allowing you to play games you already have anywhere you want, by logging into the service you have it on. That means the free tier can actually be free, unlike the eventual "free" version of Stadia. The Nvidia service supports numerous free PC games including Fortnite, League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, Apex Legends, Warframe, Path of Exile, and the free base game Destiny 2, the jewel of the crown of the Stadia launch lineup.

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GeForce Now officially supports around 400 games, which can be found through the service's search bar. Nvidia says it adds four or five new games every week or so. PUBG, Witcher 3, Skyrim, Borderlands 3, Dishonored 2, XCOM 2, and many, many more AAA games run on GeForce Now.

Free or with subscription

Nvidia is going for Stadia's jugular with the price. The GeForce Now Founders subscription only costs $ 4.99 a month for 12 months, and you'll get a free 90-day introductory period before your subscription timer activates. The price will increase later, says Nvidia, so try the introductory period now and set the cost if you're interested. We see that, by paying the subscription, you have priority of access to the games and the Ray Tracing functionalities are activated for the games that support it.

You can see more information on the official page of the Nvidia service.