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The Native Linux app for NVIDIA GeForce NOW is now in Beta (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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NVIDIA have today released the Beta for their new Native Linux app for GeForce NOW, available as a Flatpak so it should run across most x86-64 systems. Thanks to NVIDIA I was able to get some early testing in to see how the experience holds up, with NVIDIA providing Ultimate-plan access.

What actually is it? GeForce NOW is a cloud gaming service from NVIDIA. It allows you to play games streamed from their servers to your devices. This includes various free to play games and games you own from your own libraries across Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox PC Game Pass, Battle.net, Ubisoft Connect and EA. There's currently over 4,500 games available.

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

available as a Flatpak

Sweet, input latency (lag) via my favorite app delivery platform, and tied to a paid cloud account hosted by the shittiest behaving company on the planet! Can't wait to watch it wither and die.

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on the input latency part? It shouldn't really add any since it's just isolation.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Let's say you press a button on their "pretty looking" encoded stream using your "web browser". The absolute minimum amount of time for your input signal to reach the "machine" actually running the application/game is (on average) 30ms. The next frame of the game which acknowledges your input takes (again, absolute minimum) another 30ms to get from there to you. In reality, it's more like 120ms of "lag" minimum, no matter what anyone does to streamline/prioritize packets/eek out more efficiency.

It's the worst possible problem for playing any game. It's what killed Stadia, it's what killed Amazon's BS game streaming service. Makes a person feel just a tiny bit "drunk"- things taking too long, etc.

You may not "feel" if if you've never gamed locally (normally, game running on your own computer) but it's there and it fucking sucks.

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think what Missphant was asking wasn't "what is input latency" but was "does flatpak introduce more input latency than a 'normal' application". Unfortunately, after a quick search I didn't find any benchmarks. (I didn't look very thoroughly.)

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Ohhh! No using flatpak doesn't cause any of that. Flatpak is great.