Nvidia has been poking around with streaming games for a while now and with sufficient groundwork laid out is now bringing these services to a platform notoriously lacking on the gaming front; Apple's Mac computers. This isn't a full-blown release though, not just yet. Nvidia first gave us a glimpse of its GeForce Now streaming for Mac back at CES 2017 at the beginning of the year, but is now going live with the Nvidia GeForce Now for Mac beta program. Nvidia's GeForce Now games streaming service first appeared via the Nvidia Shield portable and Shield tablet devices, and then for the firm's Nvidia Shield TV set-top box; the company has a boat-load of back-end infrastructure in place by this point, and for people with the above devices prepared to pay an $8 per month subscription fee, endless games streaming is on tap already. Now that's coming to Mac comptuers for the beta program, as Nvidia itself outlined on its website.
- Nvidia Geforce On Twitter: Geforce Now For Mac Pro
- Nvidia Geforce On Twitter: Geforce Now For Mac Mac
' Bring your favorite PC games to life at max settings, with smooth framerates—all powered by GeForce GTX GPUs in the cloud. All you need is a good Internet connection, and to be located in North America.
Nvidia Geforce On Twitter: Geforce Now For Mac Pro
Can I share my GeForce NOW beta activation code? WHEN IS THE GEFORCE NOW BETA OVER? WILL GEFORCE NOW WORK WITH MY MAC? The GeForce NOW Mac or PC apps indicates it needs an update. How do I manually update it? WHEN IS GEFORCE NOW FOR MAC AND PC LAUNCHING?
Currently, the free beta is only available for Mac users. Join our waitlist to be notified when GeForce NOW for Mac becomes available in new regions, and when the PC version is released.' Because of its pedigree in gaming circles, Nvidia has managed to get a tasty looking catalogue of games on GeForce Now, including Rise of the Tomb Raide, Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Call of Duty, Diablo III, Destiny 2, League of Legends, Rocket League, Fallout 4, Dark Souls 3, and Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, amongst many, many others. For a full list, go.
Nvidia's GeForce Now for Mac is complete game changer - processor and graphics intensive games run like a dream through Nvidia's game streaming service. I was just given beta access to Nvidia’s new game streaming service, GeForce NOW for Mac.
This isn’t a service to stream your gameplay videos, it’s a service that allows you to play graphically intensive PC games on Android devices and both Mac and PC computers using GeForce GTX-powered virtual PCs. In other words, Nvidia’s provides the hardware and your device (internet connection required) functions as a fancy monitor. Access to GeForce NOW for Mac Beta couldn’t have come at a better time. I just purchased No Man’s Sky on sale through Steam. As I usually do when I purchase PC-only games, I rebooted my MacBook Pro and launched into my Windows partition that I have installed using Boot Camp. I spent a good deal of time optimizing the game and was able to get it playable with pretty much minimum settings – not ideal but, I’m a gameplay person, not necessarily a graphics person. Here are my computer specs: Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,3 Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 6 MB Memory: 16 GB The problem with running PC games through Boot Camp is that the different built-in graphics cards that come with most Mac computers just aren’t optimized for gaming.
Your processing speed is there with most high-end MacBook Pros but rendering graphics at the speed that high-end games require just doesn’t usually turn out very well. My Experience with Nvidia’s GeForce Now for Mac A couple days after playing a laggy version of No Man’s Sky being run on absolute minimum settings, I received the email inviting me to beta test. I had nothing to lose – but I gained a lot. After installing the software from Nvidia – about a 200mb download – I was able to quickly run No Man’s Sky from my Steam library. I didn’t have to reinstall the game on my OS X partition and, when I arrived at the home screen, I could see my previously saved game (from Boot Camp) was available to play. After about 30 seconds of loading (if you’ve played No Man’s Sky you’re probably used to this), BOOM, I was in the game, settings maxed out and wasn’t experiencing the slightest bit of lag or performance issues.
Nvidia Geforce On Twitter: Geforce Now For Mac Mac
The video above was recorded as I played No Man’s Sky (a PC only game) through OS X using Nvidia’s GeForce NOW for Mac. I am still completely blown away by how well this works. I’ve already started thinking about all of the PC games that I haven’t even tried on Boot Camp because I didn’t think it would be worth it. Nvidia has turned my video processing, work computer into an incredible gaming machine in a matter of minutes and, whether you’ve ever run a game on OS X or you’re a die hard PC gamer, there is no denying that this will drastically change the entire PC / Mac / computer gaming industry. Well done Nvidia, I can’t wait to see how this technology progresses. To see the demo in action, don’t forget to check out the video above.