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[quote]GDC 2015 - NVIDIA is live at the Game Developers Conference with its "Made To Game" event where we've just been told that the company has made its GRID service a game-streaming service, which will start streaming games to users very soon.
NVIDIA's GRID will be streaming games at 1080p at 60FPS, which will be under its Premium service. The standard service will be streaming games at 720p 60FPS, but the Premium service is where the gamers are going to want to hit.[/quote]
Press conference is going on right now, but here's a source.
[url]http://www.tweaktown.com/news/43905/nvidia-announces-grid-stream-1080p-60fps-games-soon/index.html[/url]
It's actually impressive. Buy, download and start playing in a minute. 1080p/60fps sounds pretty nice (assuming you don't have a PC with a 970 inside of it or a $400 console)
Just saw it on stream. It's definitely gonna be a worthy competitor in the console market.
Isn't GRID the name of a popular, relatively recent racing game as well? I thought this was just going to be a demo for nVidia allowing you to stream that game. Surprised they couldn't come up with a little bit more unique of a name.
[QUOTE=srobins;47254369]Isn't GRID the name of a popular, relatively recent racing game as well? I thought this was just going to be a demo for nVidia allowing you to stream that game. Surprised they couldn't come up with a little bit more unique of a name.[/QUOTE]
They just demoed GRID on the GRID.
3.5 times more powerful than an Xbox One with GRID. As expected of Nvidia.
150ms input and audio delay, and their big showcase was a UE demo from two years ago, rendered on a server farm. Shit's gonna be as bad as OnLive.
[QUOTE=Cock Boner;47254450]150ms input and audio delay, and their big showcase was a UE demo from two years ago, rendered on a server farm. Shit's gonna be as bad as OnLive.[/QUOTE]
The 150ms thing is true, but they just showcased The Witcher 3 looking gorgeous. If these guys can play The Witcher and GRID, the 150ms latency isn't a bad deal.
[QUOTE=Cock Boner;47254450] Shit's gonna be as bad as OnLive.[/QUOTE]
Shits going to burn as fast as onlive.
Its like they dont realize why onlive failed, a lot of people dont have the internet to support something like this, and if they do they most likely would have the funds to build their own pc as well.
Hope it's not like $50 a month or something where I'd might as well save up for a year and build my own.
Why the hell would I want to play a singleplayer game at 150ms, it's going to be HORRIBLE.
1080p, 60.....HERTZ
I guess you guys don't remember the old CS 1.3 times where everyone had 100 pings and higher...
[QUOTE=Killuah;47255125]I guess you guys don't remember the old CS 1.3 times where everyone had 100 pings and higher...[/QUOTE]
Hit detection/enemy movement lag is something else than input lag on literally EVERYTHING you do.
fullHD@60fps sounds REALLY nice and I would possibly be up to that for more cinematic games, but I am no game until they get the latency under 50ms at least.
I was disappointed that there doesn't seem to be any server anywhere near Australia but then I remembered that the 5% who have fast enough connections for this probably already have good gaming PCs anyways.
[QUOTE=Killuah;47255125]I guess you guys don't remember the old CS 1.3 times where everyone had 100 pings and higher...[/QUOTE]
I do and it was BAD. I don't want to go back to that any more.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;47255210]I do and it was BAD. I don't want to go back to that any more.[/QUOTE]
It was OK back then, not good but I could imagine accepting it, you've got to make tradeoffs.
stuff like this is not made for people who have tri-sli 980 gtx with 32gb ddr4 ram and a 1tb ssd
its made for the parent who bought a shield console for their kid and they want to give them games or a casual player who just wants to plug and play.
i used the grid beta on my shield, it's pretty great and the lag is pretty much unnoticeable.
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fullHD@60fps sounds REALLY nice and I would possibly be up to that for more cinematic games[/QUOTE]
The ultimate way to experience The Order. Except not at 60 fps. That would kill my immersion.
[QUOTE=Cock Boner;47254450]150ms input and audio delay, and their big showcase was a UE demo from two years ago, rendered on a server farm. Shit's gonna be as bad as OnLive.[/QUOTE]
The audio delay was the result of their hardware setup for streaming. The audio and the video streams were encoded separately so if you were watching the stream on anything but "source" quality, the sound was desynced when they were showing gameplay. I think the 150ms latency is stupid but the audio thing was just an issue with the stream.
[editline]4th March 2015[/editline]
The 150ms thing is really going to depend on the game. It's also going to be important to see real world benchmarks. That "150ms" number could be an average of all their tests but it could also be the fastest they achieved. They said they were "able to get it down to 150ms" which implies if your connection isn't as good, it could potentially be worse.
Depending on the game, 150ms could be nothing or it could be a ton. Most shooters will probably be impossble. I did notice the fact they didn't show any FPS games. Grid has some room for error, same with Witcher. When they demoed it in the aftershow, they did play Mortal Kombat but the people playing were button mashing and were being paid to say good things so we don't know what they actually felt.
If the game doesn't require precise input, it'd probably be fine. If it requires twitch input or extremely precise movement (platformer), it will probably fall flat.
For a bit I was using in-home streaming for emulated games because I didn't want to move all my ROMs and stuff to my laptop but things I had been able to do flawlessly for years (speedrun 1-1 on SMB, the world -1 jump, etc) I just couldn't land. I eventually just gave up and stuck all my emulation stuff in Dropbox and just run the emulator on my laptop.
The evolutionary step to PC Gaming By Post:
[video=youtube;QkPoSMClV1U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkPoSMClV1U[/video]
Soooooo is it like similar to in-home streaming by Steam?
[QUOTE=Smallheart;47256888]Soooooo is it like similar to in-home streaming by Steam?[/QUOTE]
yes but it's not in-home, it's streamed from nvidia's special new gaming server farm and you pay for it
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