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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is actually pretty huge because it means fortnite, valorant and all those esports games with kernel-level anticheat will be playable* on the steam deck and subsequently linux.

*I don't care how awful the service may be if it helps with mainstream linux adoption.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You're absolutely right. GeForce Now IMO is a shitty service and I wouldn't use it, but I'm glad it's available for those that want to play R6Siege, Valorant, Fortnite etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought they shut GeForce now down. Did I Mandela effect myself?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

rip stadia and all those Linux ports

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Took these fuckers far too long

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

An always online service that's too laggy to play anything but slower games on a device meant to be portable and work without internet while traveling. So stupid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For games that the deck struggles to run?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

AFAIK the Steam Deck doesn’t have NVIDIA hardware in it, so I don’t see how it would help.

Edit: GeForce NOW is a cloud game streaming service and doesn’t require any NVIDIA hardware.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You might be thinking of GeForce Experience.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

@DarkDarkHouse @Robin Geforce now is for streaming games running in the "cloud", not for configuring a local GPU.