5/16/2023 0 Comments Geforce now for mac beta![]() It’s not on Mac and I hadn’t had a chance to try it out until now, but it runs beautifully over GeForce Now. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), a 100-player shootout to the death, is the biggest thing in PC gaming right now with more than 20 million paying users this year alone. Given that, games looked and played pretty spectacularly in my testing, using home Wi-Fi that usually ranges between 50 to 100Mbps and typically playing within 10 feet of my router-playing further away made games more prone to choppiness. It’s all handled remotely, provided you have a strong enough internet connection to handle the load. It’s not a gaming machine by any stretch of the imagination-but with GeForce Now, the heavy lifting isn’t being done locally. ![]() It’s good enough to run some lower-end and indie Mac games natively, but it can’t handle anything big or new. I’m using a mid-2014 13-inch MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra, with a 2.6 Ghz Intel Core i5 processor and 8GB RAM. How do the games actually play? Impressively well, actually. Also, game saves can be synced to the cloud and accessed across multiple devices, in case you have more than one Mac that you might play on. Patches and driver updates are handled automatically on their side, and you can usually get into a game in about 30 seconds. Furthermore, some of the games on the list are already optimized to deliver the highest-quality experience over the internet, meaning you shouldn’t need to tweak any settings to start playing. Supported games are already installed on their remote servers, so while the launcher will pull up the PC version of Steam and prompt you to hit the install button, it’ll finish in an instant. Nvidia does ease the process of getting up and running in key ways, however. You’re “installing” to the cloud server, but supported games are already there and ready. Nvidia is just giving you the remote hardware to run the games you already own or have access to, not actually providing games to play. You’ll actually need to own the games via Steam, Blizzard, or Epic Games’ platforms, while free-to-play games like League of Legends require their own accounts. Take note: GeForce Now isn’t an unlimited, Netflix-like, all-you can play service. ![]() Once logged in, you’ll find the list of supported PC games that you can play on your Mac. You’ll need a free Nvidia account to access the service. Right now, it’s freely open to users in North America, as Nvidia has several servers spread around the United States, while European users can request access to the invitation-only test due to fewer EU servers at this point. GeForce Now website to download the beta client on your Mac and get started. ![]() The next tier up offers a $4.99 monthly rate (though the site notes the pricing is a limited time offering) that extends the session length to 6 hours and prioritizes access when server availability is limited.Overwatch and PUBG on Mac? It’s OK to squeal with joy. Right now, it comes with a free subscription option that allows users to stream already-owned games to PC, Mac, Nvidia Shield TV, or Android via its data centers, though that free option limits each session to only 1 hour of play. The current version of GeForce Now launched into beta in 2017, and has been quietly adding platforms and features throughout that period up until today’s launch. ![]() GeForce Now itself has been in the works for the last five years or so, though it’s undergone some significant changes since its first reveal. That key feature sidesteps the issue many Stadia users say Google’s game streaming option is facing right now due to a limited library that has been slow to expand since the platform’s semi-launch in November. GeForce Now has a handful of differences from its fellow streaming services out there already, but most notably it allows its subscribers to use their existing game libraries from Steam, Epic Games Store,, and Uplay with the service. ![]()
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