Nvidia Shield TV Levels Reach Full PC Game Level with GeForce Now Beta

Nvidia's GeForce Now dual services are a little less complicated – and much more attractive to Shield TV owners. Originally conceived as an all-you-can Netvix subscription service for the Nvidia decoder, the waters have darkened with the beta launch of the very different GeForce Now for PC and Mac, which essentially PC games that you already own on an Nvidia server in the cloud. Today, Nvidia has announced that services are unified. Shield TV now uses the same version of GeForce Now as the PC and Mac.

Even better, GeForce Now is still free in beta. And while PC and Mac users need to sign up for the beta version and cross their fingers that they will be accepted for service, "Access to the beta version of GeForce Now is included with every Shield TV, "says Nvidia. This guaranteed access makes the Shield TV at $ 200 – already the best multimedia streamer for enthusiasts – an even more appealing proposition

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GeForce now lets you To access a virtual PC on Nvidia's servers, and any progress you make in the games officially supported on your Shield TV will be reflected on your computer too.The games are downloaded instantly and Nvidia has provided support The first time As we thoroughly examined GeForce in February, 150 games were supported, and up to now 225, including the majority of the most played games. Rocket League, Dota 2, PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds, Fortnite, League of Legends, Warframe, Witcher 3 – everything is available to start streaming on Shield TV As a legacy of the previous service, Nvidia says Shield TV owners can read some titles for free

If your network can handle bandwidth demands, games should look much better on the new version of GeForce now. While the now-extinct version for Shield TV was based on the console's Tegra chip for visual oomph the streaming service simulates full-fledged GeForce GTX graphics cards, playing games up to 120fps with a visual quality. (Do not forget that the current Shield TV can also display 4K HDR visuals.)

Latency has long been the knee arrow for current streaming services, but GeForce Now plays surprisingly well in our experience. Best of all, the service keeps all your game and graphics drivers up-to-date and fixed, so there is no usual maintenance associated with PC gaming.