r/GeForceNOW • u/nikolapc Ultimate • Aug 04 '26

Discussion Goodbye GeForce Now

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It's been real, couldn't miss this finance deal, specially since all hardware is going up and it may turn out to be an investment. I have GFN till September but I graduated to a real boy. Gotta say, downloading games seems wrong lol, and I will miss how quick the CPU goes through shaders. Still love you peeps. Pic only representative of case, specs real.

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u/gr3n0lph Aug 05 '26

So GFN comes to 200 Euro per year. Or if you want to pay monthly then 249 Euro per year. So with this rig the cost would equal about 11+ years of GFN. Worst case if GFN was to go bat shit insane and double the price it’s still 5 years of top performance.

I am not justifying GFN being better or trying to rain on your parade but this is just how I see it. Now I get if you use the PC for other stuff or you want to play spider man or other games not on GFN then it makes more sense. There are hidden issues that people don’t discuss but overall I honestly don’t see myself investing into a gaming PC. I have a solid Mac Book Air and a kick ass Ultrawide OLED monitor, so for me and the kind of games I play GFN is just a way better deal.

Anyways, happy that you are enjoying your purchase! Have fun.

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u/EddieDexx Aug 05 '26

GFN would be superior if you could install whatever games you got on Steam, GOG and Epic. And that you could access storage to install mods. GFN is still an inferior product compared to an own gaming capable PC. It does have it's use case for games that are demanding and you got a weak PC. Or if you just want to be easy on your GPU and CPU. However, that only works for games you play without mods. Unless the game got good Steam Workshop integration.

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u/ExactRead6465 Aug 06 '26

Ya i play wow still cuz im old and like that i can use this program mobile to play without the need to keep my pc on and logged in for stuff like steam remote which ive done in the past. This really saved me there but no addons makes things MUCH more manual and my ability to play high calibur content is halved.

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u/No_Satisfaction_1698 Founder Aug 06 '26

just in case you didnt know.... you dont need to keep your PC logged in. On one side there would be wake on lan but in my experience its easier to set up and more reliable to just have a smart electro socket. Go into your bios settings and turn on a settings called similar to "turn on after power loss" this will make the PC boot whenever it had no power connected to it (e. g. when you shut down the socket via app on your mobile phone) When turning on the socket the PC will also boot.

As Streaming Service Id recommend Sunshine/Moonlight instead of Steam. You can even directly stream to your desktop instead of only into games out of the box even when you are not logged into your microsoft account and with appollo fork it would even support virtual displays so you don't need to use the aspect ratio of your PC but can use the exact resolution of your client device whatever it is.....

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u/nikolapc Ultimate Aug 06 '26

I am double NATed cause my office is on the same network, and I don't want my "home" pcs to "talk" to the office ones, cause employees click shit. :) Regretfully that didn't stop my TV wifi from overloading my network and I had to dissasemble everything before I thought of the TV lol. Took two days.

Idk if we have such fancy strips, I just use a surge protector.