{"id":38223,"date":"2023-09-14T00:27:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T00:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/starfield-on-geforce-now-is-among-the-best-and-worst-ways-to-play\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T00:27:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T00:27:46","slug":"starfield-on-geforce-now-is-among-the-best-and-worst-ways-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/starfield-on-geforce-now-is-among-the-best-and-worst-ways-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Starfield on GeForce Now is among the best and worst ways to play"},"content":{"rendered":"


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I\u2019m not ready to upgrade my PC. Would I pay $20 a month to rent one that lives in the cloud? Starfield<\/em> is the first game that\u2019s actually making me consider the possibility. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Today, Starfield<\/em> arrived on Nvidia\u2019s GeForce Now<\/a>, a service that lets you tap into an RTX 4080-equivalent GPU, and I spent a little time benchmarking the hard-to-run game. It absolutely looks and plays better than it did on my aging 1440p desktop, and looks great handheld.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s not a silver bullet. I currently have wired gigabit fiber optic internet and live only a few towns over from Nvidia\u2019s west coast servers. Even then, the game doesn\u2019t currently run as smoothly as it does on the highest-end gaming PCs<\/a>. In the city of New Atlantis, I saw dips down to 47 and 48 frames per second no matter my graphics settings or resolution, because many worlds are fundamentally limited by your CPU speeds. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But in the cyberpunk core of Neon, I never saw a dip below 60fps at 4K resolution and Ultra spec, regardless of whether I simply walked through town or provoked a battle. It\u2019s so<\/em> much smoother than my 5600X \/ 3060 Ti desktop machine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(By default, GeForce Now sets the game to Ultra with FSR2 enabled, at 75 percent render resolution. I got 70-80fps in Neon\u2019s core that way \u2014 consistently 10fps higher than native resolution.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On other worlds, and in lighter firefights, my cloud gaming framerate was far north of 60fps at Ultra spec. I do still need to test on Masada III<\/a>, though. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Right now, you\u2019re probably wondering about my headline. If it\u2019s so great, why\u2019s it also a \u201cworst way to play\u201d? How can it be \u201cbest\u201d if high-end PCs run the game better? Well, some people might prefer to play this game handheld, and I\u2019d take this experience over Starfield<\/em> on a Steam Deck or ROG Ally:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Don\u2019t get me started on the Razer Edge\u2019s pricing or 5G, though.<\/em><\/figcaption>Photo by Sean Hollister \/ The Verge<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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With GeForce Now, you can stream to most any system you\u2019ve got, and it\u2019s wild to see <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the minor tragedy of Nvidia\u2019s GeForce Now is that you won\u2019t experience any of what I\u2019m talking about<\/em> unless you cough up cash first. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I decided to give GeForce Now\u2019s free tier a try, too, and Starfield<\/em> is basically unplayable that way. After sitting nearly half an hour waiting for the game to load, sync my cloud saves, and compile its shaders, I was greeted with graphics like this:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Not to mention scary error messages:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Oh boy.<\/em><\/figcaption>Screenshot by Sean Hollister \/ The Verge<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s an embarrassment. I would be ashamed to put this free trial out into the world as a sample of cloud gaming. Nvidia, do you really think this will convince anyone to pay? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If you\u2019re interested and have good internet, I highly recommend you try the Ultimate tier for a month \u2014 and make sure to manually set your GeForce Now resolution to 4K even if your monitor is only capable of 1440p. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nvidia\u2019s streaming quality is noticeably<\/em> better when it\u2019s got more render resolution to work with; I saw all kinds of muddiness and jaggies at 1440p that utterly vanished at 4K. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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