Jack Brickman
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I signed up for a free 90 day trial of GeForce Now to see how well it works. I don't have the greatest connection speed here, so streaming can be hit or miss. When I tried the free google preview of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey via stream, it worked really well most of the time but there were other times where the game would either become borderline or entirely unplayable.
Given that GeForce Now gives you access to basically every game you own, it was ideal since my back-up hard drive that has all of my games stored on it died recently, and I don't have enough space on my primary to install a ton of games. I'll get a new back-up at some point, but I haven't been using my PC all that much lately so it hasn't been a top priority.
I decided to try Team Fortress 2 first. Been a while since I played, and I have never tried a multiplayer game via a streaming service before. It worked...pretty well. There's definitely a perceptible lag between when you do something and when it happens on screen, but it's not so bad that you can't compensate for it. I finished in the top three on my team my first game, and that's without having played TF2 more than two or three times in the past four months. So it was definitely playable.
Will give some other games a shot later.
Given that GeForce Now gives you access to basically every game you own, it was ideal since my back-up hard drive that has all of my games stored on it died recently, and I don't have enough space on my primary to install a ton of games. I'll get a new back-up at some point, but I haven't been using my PC all that much lately so it hasn't been a top priority.
I decided to try Team Fortress 2 first. Been a while since I played, and I have never tried a multiplayer game via a streaming service before. It worked...pretty well. There's definitely a perceptible lag between when you do something and when it happens on screen, but it's not so bad that you can't compensate for it. I finished in the top three on my team my first game, and that's without having played TF2 more than two or three times in the past four months. So it was definitely playable.
Will give some other games a shot later.