Friday, March 10th 2023
GeForce NOW Gets GRID Legends, Eight New Games This Week
It's a thrilling GFN Thursday with GRID Legends racing to the cloud this week. It leads a total of eight new games expanding the GeForce NOW library. New content for Rainbow Six Siege is also now streaming. Plus, two new cities are now online with GeForce RTX 4080 performance for cloud gaming. Chicago and Montreal have completed upgrades to RTX 4080 SuperPODs, delivering next-generation cloud streaming to GeForce NOW Ultimate members.
Shifting Up
Jump into the spectacular action of GRID Legends, the racing game from EA with drama at every turn. Battle for glory with a variety of incredible cars on stellar tracks featuring iconic landmarks from the streets of London and Moscow.
Navigate the world of high-stakes racing as a rookie behind the wheel, with a documentary team capturing every sensational moment. Conquer hundreds of events and challenges, and create a dream racing team in the unique, cinematic story mode. Join up online with other legends and race against friends, or challenge them to a race designed in the Race Creator mode.
GeForce NOW members can experience it all with high dynamic range on PC, Mac and SHIELD TV for a smooth, ultra-crisp driving experience, even under intense racing conditions.
Upgrade Roll Call
The RTX 4080 SuperPODs have been rolling out around the world for a couple months now, so it's time to check in with a RTX 4080 roll call.
Chicago and Montreal bring the number of cities on the server update map to 10, joining Ashburn, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Jose in the U.S., and Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London and Paris in Europe. Now past it's halfway point, the rollout is expected to be completed by mid-year.
Here's a few reasons to upgrade:
Operation Commanding Force is the newest season of Year 8 for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, now available for members to stream. The update brings a new attacker named Brava, equipped with the Kludge Drone, a gadget that can disrupt enemy electronics devices and even take over some of them to turn the tides of battle.
That's on top of the eight games joining the cloud this week:
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Jump into the spectacular action of GRID Legends, the racing game from EA with drama at every turn. Battle for glory with a variety of incredible cars on stellar tracks featuring iconic landmarks from the streets of London and Moscow.
Navigate the world of high-stakes racing as a rookie behind the wheel, with a documentary team capturing every sensational moment. Conquer hundreds of events and challenges, and create a dream racing team in the unique, cinematic story mode. Join up online with other legends and race against friends, or challenge them to a race designed in the Race Creator mode.
GeForce NOW members can experience it all with high dynamic range on PC, Mac and SHIELD TV for a smooth, ultra-crisp driving experience, even under intense racing conditions.
Upgrade Roll Call
The RTX 4080 SuperPODs have been rolling out around the world for a couple months now, so it's time to check in with a RTX 4080 roll call.
Chicago and Montreal bring the number of cities on the server update map to 10, joining Ashburn, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Jose in the U.S., and Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London and Paris in Europe. Now past it's halfway point, the rollout is expected to be completed by mid-year.
Here's a few reasons to upgrade:
- NVIDIA DLSS 3 technology is enabled for AI-powered performance boosts on supported games like HITMAN World of Assassination and Marvel's Midnight Suns. This means 4K streaming from the cloud results in the smoothest game play at up to 120 frames per second, even when settings are cranked to the max.
- NVIDIA Reflex delivers ultra-low latency. Paired with DLSS 3, the technology enables Ultimate members to stream games like Rainbow Six Siege and Apex Legends at up to 240 FPS on PCs and Macs, with as low as 35 milliseconds of total latency for a streaming experience that feels nearly indistinguishable from being on a local desktop.
- Ultrawide resolutions are supported for the first time ever from the cloud, giving Ultimate members the most immersive game play in No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk 2077 and Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
- Ultimate members in and around the 10 cities on the map are streaming with new performance today, and can take full advantage of these RTX technologies in the cloud. Level up to next-generation cloud streaming today for beyond-fast gaming.
Operation Commanding Force is the newest season of Year 8 for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, now available for members to stream. The update brings a new attacker named Brava, equipped with the Kludge Drone, a gadget that can disrupt enemy electronics devices and even take over some of them to turn the tides of battle.
That's on top of the eight games joining the cloud this week:
- Hotel Renovator (New release on Steam)
- Clash: Artifacts of Chaos (New release on Steam, March 9)
- Figment 2: Creed Valley (New release on Steam, March 9)
- Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Videogame 6 (New release on Steam, March 9)
- Big Ambitions (New release on Steam, March 10)
- Call of the Sea (Free on Epic Games, March 9)
- GRID Legends (Steam and EA)
- Scars Above (Steam)
11 Comments on GeForce NOW Gets GRID Legends, Eight New Games This Week
Who wants to rent a GPU to get a laggy, compressed experience? For $100 a year you get 1080p60, which isn't really a very high bar. A used 2060 on ebay will do better than that and it's yours to keep or sell later...
Seems pricing was overlooked here so I can't get the comical effects going this morning :sleep:
A 2060 is $200 for you to use indefinitely, not just 12 months. After 24 months you break even and you are up by a 2060. Another way to look at it is whether you could sell a $200 2060 for $100 in 12 months from now? Probably. You're unlikely to lose $100 a year on a $200 purchase so the 2060 is cheaper. Realistically, a card like the 2060 has already done the worst of its depreciation already and will now trickle down in value until it's unsupported by anything.
A 2060 will do 1080p60 in something like 1450 of the 1500 games in the GFN library. For those that it doesn't, you can adjust settings very slightly from ultra down to high and usually get 60fps Meanwhile, calling GFN's mid-tier "1080p60" is disingenuous. It's 1080p compressed video with the input latency of 1080p20. It has detail losses from video smoothing, motion artefacts, compression artefacts, and the detail of objects moving across the scene decreases the faster it's moving.... It's quite clear from my brief time with GFN that in motion, it's barely comparable to 720p upscaled with VRS (and I'm being overly generous when I say that) Really, it's only comparable to 1080p resolution on a static scene or very very slowly moving one - at which point, why are we talking about the 60fps in 1080p60? It's more like a hybrid mess of 720p upscaled, at "up to 60fps", with a whole bunch of latency characteristics that are distinctly sub-30fps in feel, and multiple types of artefacts that ruin the image quality and bump it down a graphical setting preset, at least in terms of comparison with something rendered natively and locally.
Finally we have the "gaming while travelling" aspect. You still need godlike internet, preferably wired ethernet. Without that, GFN is garbage, and the number of airport lobbies and hotels where I can call the internet connection "godly" is pitifully low. You also still need a tablet, chromebook, or laptop, and the actual cost of that isn't zero so you have to subtract that cost from the dGPU-equivalent variant that could run something natively.
Convenient video yesterday from Dawid:
- Train Simulator World 2
- Fights in Tight Spaces
- CyberHook
- Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
- Farmer's Life
- Hunting Simulator 2 - Bear Hunter Edition
- Nigate Tale
- Metro: Last Light Redux
GeForce NOW is a cloud gaming service that allows users to stream games to their devices without needing to download or install them. With the addition of these new games, users will have even more options to choose from when using the service.