Nvidia GeForce NOW SA launch

Yea I also got to the point of linking rain to nvidia account, and linking nvidia to Epic/Steam, but hit a wall when trying to start a game due to needing a Geforce Now membership which isn't yet available to add in SA.
 
Dean said:
Yea I also got to the point of linking rain to nvidia account, and linking nvidia to Epic/Steam, but hit a wall when trying to start a game due to needing a Geforce Now membership which isn't yet available to add in SA.
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Same here. Linked rain and Nvidia. Linked Steam account. Synced games. Network test ok. Wireless controller ready. App installed on TVs done. Now just a painstakingly long wait for them to flip the on switch...
 
Bryn said:
The first page mentions Teraco...
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Yes I saw that...

I meant geographically. Are they in all Teracos locations or only in Jhb or Cape Town?

We’ve only seen one option pop up for those who have tried to register so I assumed it’s not hosted in all 3 of Teracos locations?
 
Just tried now and it just takes you to Rain's landing page and no page to login into Now. Honestly wish this would just launch as would prefer this over building a new pc every so often
 
labratza said:
Just tried now and it just takes you to Rain's landing page and no page to login into Now. Honestly wish this would just launch as would prefer this over building a new pc every so often
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$19.99 a month to play 1440p 120Hz PC games on a Mac with an RTX 4080 is a very, very nice thing indeed.

It is such a massive crying shame though that GeForce Now does not have any sort of persistent virtual machine per user, where you can mod your games. This is one of the biggest benefits of PC gaming and isn't available at all. For that reason alone I might still just build my own rig.
 
Ghost02 said:
Yes I saw that...

I meant geographically. Are they in all Teracos locations or only in Jhb or Cape Town?

We’ve only seen one option pop up for those who have tried to register so I assumed it’s not hosted in all 3 of Teracos locations?
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Seems to be only in Johannesburg. My latency is 21 milliseconds to the Rain Speedtest.net server in Johannesburg and also 21 milliseconds on the GeForce NOW SA server (I am in Cape Town and get 2 millisecond latency to local Speedtest servers).
 
Of all ISPs they chose rain?
Why do you even need to be with a certain ISP? Can someone explain?
 
Adenoid Hynkel said:
Of all ISPs they chose rain?
Why do you even need to be with a certain ISP? Can someone explain?
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Maybe because Rain users were mostly the ones using geforce now before the official launch? I averaged around 1TB of data usage p/m on geforce now on my Rain sim.
 
Adenoid Hynkel said:
Of all ISPs they chose rain?
Why do you even need to be with a certain ISP? Can someone explain?
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I think rain chose them
Bryn said:
It doesn’t seem that you need to be a Rain user. But it is weird. I wish Afrihost had made the effort instead.
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Not a rain user but have a rain account. I wonder if rain will market it like they marketing rain one. I also wonder how many rigs they will have considering they are basically hosting the whole of Southern Africa ..including Botswana etc . I wonder is rain is satisfied with how their own network runs the streaming service as I've seen alot of people complain about their connection.
 
Killmonger2K said:
I wonder is rain is satisfied with how their own network runs the streaming service as I've seen alot of people complain about their connection.
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I'd find it entirely unsurprising if it turns out the average fibre user has a better / more consistent experience with Geforce Now in Rain's data centres than Rain's own 5G customers do.
Running a mobile provider vs. running a service like this are two radically different things (particularly in the South African context given unreliable power), and I'd advise against prejudging their ability to run Geforce Now based on any prior experience with them as a wireless ISP.
 
crashingintoyou said:
I'd find it entirely unsurprising if it turns out the average fibre user has a better / more consistent experience with Geforce Now in Rain's data centres than Rain's own 5G customers do.
Running a mobile provider vs. running a service like this are two radically different things (particularly in the South African context given unreliable power), and I'd advise against prejudging their ability to run Geforce Now based on any prior experience with them as a wireless ISP.
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Maybe but Rain has a horrible track record and I cannot see a world where Rain will not screw this up and the service will be basically unusable after a couple of months, as with pretty much every other product they have launched.

Also Rain support is crap, can you image what a new fresh hell it will be trying to diagnose latency and packet loss issues with the barely conscious customer support that Rain has available?

Let's be real if Afrihost was running it then at least there are competent and technically minded support on the forum, heck they are even running a PPTP alpha to help gamers with latency

Afrihost Gaming PPTP [alpha]

Update: Afrihost Cape Town PPTP | pptp.afrihost.capetown | 169.1.2.37 Afrihost Durban PPTP | pptp.afrihost.durban | 169.1.3.19 My vision for this project is a simple quick-click connect to change regions and steer traffic where possible. This project is still a work in progress. JHB server...
mybroadband.co.za mybroadband.co.za

How Afrihost didn't get this deal is beyond me, were they just not interested?

The proof will be in the pudding, I guess we will see how it looks in a couple of months.
 
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Intox said:
Maybe but Rain has a horrible track record and I cannot see a world where Rain will not screw this up and the service will be basically unusable after a couple of months, as with pretty much every other product they have launched.

Also Rain support is crap, can you image what a new fresh hell it will be trying to diagnose latency and packet loss issues with the barely conscious customer support that Rain has available?

Let's be real if Afrihost was running it then at least there are competent and technically minded support on the forum, heck they are even running a PPTP alpha to help gamers with latency

Afrihost Gaming PPTP [alpha]

Update: Afrihost Cape Town PPTP | pptp.afrihost.capetown | 169.1.2.37 Afrihost Durban PPTP | pptp.afrihost.durban | 169.1.3.19 My vision for this project is a simple quick-click connect to change regions and steer traffic where possible. This project is still a work in progress. JHB server...
mybroadband.co.za mybroadband.co.za

How Afrihost didn't get this deal is beyond me, were they just not interested?

The proof will be in the pudding, I guess we will see how it looks in a couple of months.
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@AfriNatic
 
Im just getting “forbidden” now, anyone else?
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