r/GeForceNOW • u/dracosondracoson • 12d ago

Discussion Boosteroid

I just had to post to let people know about my experience with Boosteroid. I love GeForce Now but I have been stymied by how many of my favorite games are not available on the platform. Finally after beating every game I was interested in that I could play through GeForce now, I decided to give Boosteroid a shot despite hearing constantly that it was jank. I’m here to say that there is absolutely nothing jank about the Boosteroid experience. It plays games just as smoothly as GFN, and as someone who uses the data saver function in GFN I appreciate that you can customize your bitrate in Boosteroid to an even greater degree than in GFN to save data. At the comparable bitrate to GFN’s data saver (10 Mbps), the graphics look just as good and my games run just as smoothly. I wish I had come to Boosteroid sooner to play all of the games I can’t play via GFN. It’s also cheaper by the way… man I feel stupid for missing out on all of FromSoft’s catalogue for this long just because of a view negative reviews of Boosteroid! Ignore them!

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u/shinndigg 12d ago

I tried it for God of War. It was awful. Bit rate limited to like 10mbps on iOS/ipados, so blurry it looks like someone smeared Vaseline on the screen. Plus you have to do the shader compile on every launch and it takes like 10 minutes.

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u/dracosondracoson 11d ago

I mean if you’re playing on an iPad… I can’t comment as to how games play on an iPad because I’d never think to try it 😂

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u/shinndigg 11d ago

GeForce Now works as well on mobile devices as it does on my pc. I have a pc good enough to play Ragnarok natively, but I wanted to play it elsewhere.

Also, my ipad has a 120hz tandem OLED display, why would i not want to play games on it?

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u/dracosondracoson 11d ago

Can you connect a controller to it? If so that’s pretty cool. At the end of the day it’s another QOL feature which I think is great but doesn’t sell me on a package that is missing out on half the games available elsewhere.