64 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020
GEFORCE NOW
Nvidia ensures you’re running the company’s latest
and greatest Game Ready drivers, too.
GeForce Now played games like a champ in beta,
assuming you met the modest system requirements,
but will Nvidia be able to keep up once the floodgates
open at the service’s proper launch? That’s the real
question. Nvidia says that once you’re up and running
in a game, the quality should stay consistent, but
if theserversarefull,youmayneedtowaitfora
fewminutesbeforeyou’reabletobootintoyour
gamingPCin thecloud.That’swhereGeForce
Now’ssubscription tiers come in.
Free vs Founders subscriptions
The beta version of GeForce Now was free throughout
its lifetime, and the full launch continues that tradition.
GeForce Now beta testers will automatically get
converted to the free plan. Free users get standard
access to Nvidia’s servers, and their play sessions end
after an hour. You can hop back in immediately after
- there is no limit to how many sessions free users
get – but you can’t just play games endlessly without
interruption. That should help keep the queue for the
service moving smoothly.
The GeForce Now ‘Founders’ tier lets you play for
up to six straight hours, as often as you want, with
priority queue access that should get you into your
games immediately. GeForce Now Founders can also
enable real-time ray tracing in games that support it,
so if you can’t afford a EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 KO
(£301 from fave.co/3bxMopH), you can subscribe to
Nvidia’s streaming service for cheap and try out the
