Steam Deck controller: will be exposed to the game as a GeForce Now controller (no per game steam deck default settings)?

4K 120/240 Hz?

How are game launchers handled?

Xalia support?

MangoHUD support?

Copy paste support?

Does it work on other devices with SteamOS like Lenovo Legion Go?

Each game can have different controller profile on Steam. Game developer can choose whether the game uses SteamInput (makes every controller look like Xbox controller and can have special settings) or gets access to actual controller that is connected to PC. Since Geforce NOW is cloud PC, it does similar thing as SteamInput, so any controller will look like Xbox compatible controller for Steam and then either adds developer settings to it with SteamInput or sees it as Geforce Now makes it to appear (Xbox compatible controller). Most games don't have multiple launch options, so they launch the game right away, but even if you can launch it yourself and change controller profile on Steam, it will be wiped for next session.

I think 4K@120/240hz isn't a thing for streaming anywhere (not even Youtube). As I understand the max is either 4K@60hz or 1440p@120hz everywhere (except browser, which is worse).

If Steam game requires launcher then it's already installed with the game. Most have auto sign-in.

You aren't renting any cloud PC, you are renting a cloud PC for gaming, so you can't install software on it (and it's against the ToS). Some game maybe have mod support via Steam Workshop or their launcher.

Like MangoHUD on Steam Deck? Geforce NOW isn't running SteamOS, it runs Steam Big Picture mode on Windows cloud PC. Nvidia Overlay has it's own performance stats (mostly about the network).

Haven't tried copying to clipboard, but you can paste to clipboard.

I read that it checks if the installer is executed on SteamOS, but since it's actually installing another flatpak, maybe people figure out how to get it running on other distros.

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It's interesting that every big and small media site had an article about "GeForce Now on SteamDeck".

Was there an orchestrated PR campaign on the part of Nvidia?

They announced it at CES and teased about it day before on social media, so some maybe had the articles even in draft. Many published it right after Nvidia article went up, without checking whether the download even worked.

Or people really waited this to finally happen.

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They updated the link
https://international.download.nvidia.com/GFNLinux/GeForceNOWSetup.bin [External Link]

Old link was this
https://download.nvidia.com/gfnpc/GeForceNOW_Setup.zip [External Link]

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after buying Twitch and trying a store there assuming people would use it because they watch livestreams, they were also wrong

Twitch had a store? Or was it just a link that redirected to somewhere else?

Why the failures? Evans said "The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam. It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well".

Do they even use Steam? If they would, it wouldn't take them long to realize that they already have all the pieces, they just need to put them together as a cohesive product.

It blows my mind that even Microsoft and Epic Games struggle to compete with Steam. If they would use Steam, they would get it what they are missing.

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I think he is spot on. Generative AI is not going to prompt itself. Well, it actually already does, but the initial prompt comes from a person anyways, recursive prompts just try to get better results for the initial prompt. Games aren't going to be more simple, they will grow in complexity, so there will be more developers who will be prompting the generative AI.

And the copyright issue will be solved too, each company will have their own trained AI silos, trained with their own copyrighted material. Right now is just confusing transition time.

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But are they really? This is not exactly a new problem. In fact, I'd say the problem is as old as GPUs themselves. They just ignored it until it got so bad that it was actively affecting the perception of Epic.

Personally I think the problem is that shaders are not manually written anymore. And the ones generated by these engines are so complicated and allow so many combinations of conditional compilation that compilation effort got out of hand.

Generated shaders are not as old as GPUs, but rather a new thing (last 10 years). Each those combinations (static switches) become a separate shader, so like the article says, it has become an issue because there are so many of those shaders to compile.

It isn't realistic anymore that all those shaders would be written manually, it would be waste of time.

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Pointless marketing move, they have removed the PSN requirement on some games, but they still restrict the sales to countries where PSN is available.
It shows they have no idea what they are doing, just winging it.

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It probably will be Steam store app. Flathub or any other store doesn't make any sense because they already have flatpak version available, which needs a script to set it up properly. Steam store app would have gamepad automatically configured.

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They keep requiring the PSN account, I keep NOT buying their games, because I can't (EU country not on their list).

Eventually it's their loss because more and more people will not have any emotional connection (or only negative emotions) with their IPs.

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Steam Linux Runtime 1.0 (scout) isn't exactly "newer", it's the most compatible.
https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/blob/main/docs/container-runtime.md [External Link]

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