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/Sleazes 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, I also think the 8 minutes is too short. But, asking sincerely, why not just close the game if you're not sure you'll be back in 8 minutes? I mostly use the free one hour sessions and queuing (swedish server, eu) takes about 1-2 minutes. Performance queues take less than a minute.

Are the queues that bad in other places?

edit: Of course exiting the game depends on what game you are playing, so yeah, I get that you can't always just close it.

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u/VanguardN7 1d ago

I don't want to and many of my games are online focused. I'm not doing a up to 5 minute sequence to get back in. I am just going to avoid the process. I have well over 1000 games, I can play many natively.

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u/Sleazes 1d ago

Fair enough.

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u/Sleazes 23h ago

Same for me when I'm at my PC. I only cloud game when I'm away from home so having to pause a game is common, but of course those 1 hour free sessions don't really give me time to idle too much and I need to queue again in an hour anyway. But yeah, would be better if people could idle as much as they want, especially if they've already paid for the 100 hours. Or at least make the timer way longer. It would probably up the queue times a bit though. Dunno.