Nvidia's upgrading GeForce Now's $10 tier with 1440p and Ultrawide resolutions, but the only extra Ultimate users get is a new 100-hour play limit
Nvidia is making some pretty sweeping changes to GeForce Now this week, allowing the $9.99 paid membership tier to push beyond 1080p and stream at 1440p and Ultrawide resolutions, too. And, thankfully it's doing this without bumping up the membership prices.
Unfortunately—and apparently to pay for that upgrade—Nvidia has also announced a new 100-hour cap on its game streaming service, which the company says «allows GeForce NOW to continue to provide unparalleled quality and speed—as well as short to no queue times—for all paid members, without increasing membership fees.»
For a company which is now listed as the most valuable company in the world, at well over $3 trillion, introducing a play time cap on its users does feel a little tight. But I guess you look after the pennies and the trillions of dollars look after themselves.
The free tier isn't going anywhere, however, so you can still play the odd hour on a basic 1080p rig just to get a feel of what GeForce Now is. And what GeForce Now is, is really, really good. I'm a big fan of Nvidia's game streaming service, and I personally played pretty much the entirety of my Baldur's Gate 3 campaign on GFN either going large on my home projector or via the convenience of streaming to a handheld PC.
Yes, I used the controller layout exclusively. Fight me.
As a service, Nvidia's packet synchronising features ensure that the streams are rarely anything other than indistinguishable from a local gaming experience. Obviously, that's network-dependent, and if you're running on a weak service your mileage may vary. But we've played on rubbish hotel and convention centre internet and still experienced impressive gaming performance.
The changes, from today, mark the replacement of the previous Priority tier with a newly titled Performance tier. This has been upgraded to feature the ability to stream at up to 1440p and 60 fps, though whether this means the RTX-enabled hardware available to the Performance tier has also been
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