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The Steam Deck, nay Linux, is crying out for an official GeForce Now app (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"There is not a native app on Steam deck today," said Andrew Fear, GFN boss, back in January. "Use a Chromium browser to make it work. I would say that both Nvidia and Valve, I think we're both interested in making [GeForce Now on Steam Deck] better. But we don't have any announcements on a native app coming to Steam."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

People are not talking about remote play, lol.

GeForce Now is a cloud streaming service - meaning the games run on Nvidia machines with all settings maxed out, and you get the output. It's great if you:

live close to an Nvidia data center and pay for the service
prefer 60 fps with all settings on high to 30 fps with all settings on low
want to play games that aren't supported on the deck
want to save space by not installing certain large games
want to save battery

You doing a completely separate thing and that being "good enough for you" would be like me asking for a recipe for apple pie and you responding with "well I went to McDonald's the other day and ate a pie and it was swell".

That's not what we're talking about, it doesn't help the original poster, and your experience contributes nothing to the overall discussion.

Edit: Removed some text that served no purpose other than being nasty to the above commenter. Apologies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OR, my comment and this thread could be viewed as an opportunity to identify a value in driving development of a more seamless NVIDIA streaming experience on the Deck. The original commenter indicated that there is no demand or desire for it and I (and I assume many others) own a deck and were not familiar with the service thus driving awareness and possibly a few more people to push the demand. This post is about the use of the service on the deck and this thread focuses on whether there is a demand. It would seem like education on the service running on a deck would be pretty on-topic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Sure, that's fair.

However, if that's the case then I would encourage you to at least edit your above comment to indicate what you've learned - as it stands right now it still implies the discussion is about local streaming/Gamestream.