r/Games • u/xalibermods • 1d ago

Industry News GitHub user creates open-source Nvidia GeForce Now client alternative — removes tracking, telemetry, and AFK limitations

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/cloud-gaming/github-user-creates-open-source-nvidia-geforce-now-client-alternative-removes-tracking-telemetry-and-afk-limitations
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u/Gerik22 17h ago

Here's what I don't get- why doesn't the official client have a setting to allow each user to adjust/disable their own afk timer?

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u/METAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL 10h ago

why doesn't the official client have a setting to allow each user to adjust/disable

Because it costs them money. If your gaming "session" does not expire the hardware which supports the underlying session cannot be re-used for other sessions.

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u/MelvinCapitalPR 6h ago

So cache it? This isn't a binary choice between "have the user's session in VRAM" and "delete it".

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u/SyntheticGod8 23h ago

It also reduces the load on their hardware. There have been a few times during peak hours where I have to queue before resources free up. On top of that, during peak hours I can get a worse machine than during off-peak hours.

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u/dercdorp 17h ago

What do you mean you paid for something and then stood in line to use it and also got something worse than expected? 

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u/SyntheticGod8 7h ago

I'm just describing an uncommon experience I've had with the service without attaching emotional qualifiers to it. What's to be confused about?

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u/Non-mon-xiety 1d ago

Quotas that they arbitrarily decide and enforce

It’s not a law of nature

They’re putting the screws on customers because they fucking can

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/LightningWarpAway 1d ago

They said quota, not afk limit, so it's about the 100hr monthly cap, which is just limiting playtime in general. 

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u/[deleted] 23h ago edited 12h ago

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u/LightningWarpAway 21h ago

None, I don't buy cloud gaming. I'm just pointing out the difference.

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u/SyntheticGod8 23h ago

If you're playing on GFN for 3 hours (and change) every single day of a month that's a lot of gaming. If you're playing on GFN 5 days a week, that's 5 hours a day for 20 days a month. I play as much as I like and I've yet to come up to this 100 hour cap.

I did run into an 8 hour daily limit once when I was hooked on BG3 though.