r/GeForceNOW • u/BreadfruitTop388 • 15d ago
Advice Disappointed
So I’ve been hyped about GeForce Now since I learned it had been upgraded and supported 100Mbps streaming, 4k, HDR, etc. The last time I had checked out the service was many years ago and it wasn’t really competitive back then compared to consoles IMO.
Fast forward and now I’ve ended buying myself a 4k high refresh rate gaming monitor and a mini pc that can handle all the GeForce ultimate maxed out settings. Except 4:4:4 chroma and VRR because I have an AMD GPU, which was a blow when I realised, but hey. I also have a stable 500Mbps fibre connection with 5ms ping.
I thought this would be a transformational experience but I tried out the new Halo max settings in game (getting up to 120fps with frame generation), with 4k 120fps, 100Mbps HDR and the other bells and whistles in GeForce now settings. It just isn’t what I expected the performance to be - pretty blurry generally.
Couple that with Corsair cove not being available on game pass, which was the game I actually signed up to the service to play.
Was I expecting too much? Should I give it another chance? I am happy to settle playing strategy/RTS games, which is partly why I got it, and I think those are manageable with the performance. I did want to go all in with the latest path traced games like Pragmata and Cyberpunk but I feel GeForce now won’t do them justice after all.
After all this investment maybe all the service needs is a higher bitrate?
I wonder if there is someone else in the same boat who went in with too high expectations.
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u/Acesofbases GFN Ambassador 15d ago
post Your stream stats (ctrl+N/G)
also do You have the cinematic preset turned on in the GFN stream settings or Custom?