{"id":515841,"date":"2023-11-20T15:37:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=515841"},"modified":"2023-11-20T15:38:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T13:38:47","slug":"nvidia-geforce-now-adds-support-for-pc-games-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/515841-nvidia-geforce-now-adds-support-for-pc-games-pass.html","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia GeForce Now adds support for Microsoft Game Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nvidia GeForce Now subscribers can now link their Xbox accounts to the cloud streaming service for easier access to PC Game Pass titles, the company announced<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The addition of the feature is part of a ten-year deal between Microsoft and Nvidia that lets Nvidia license Xbox PC Games for GeForce Now. This will include Activision Blizzard titles once Microsoft’s acquisition deal has gone through.<\/p>\n

“Members can now connect their Xbox accounts to GeForce NOW to sync the games they own to their GeForce NOW library,” Nvidia said.<\/p>\n

“Game syncing lets members connect their digital game store accounts to GeForce NOW, so all of their supported games are part of their streaming library.”<\/p>\n

To link an Xbox account to GeForce Now, navigate to settings by clicking the toggle menu in the top-left corner.<\/p>\n

In settings, look for the Connections section on the right-hand side and click Connect under the Xbox heading.<\/p>\n

GeForce Now will then open a browser window that prompts you to sign in to your Microsoft account and give the service permission to access your Xbox account.<\/p>\n

MyBroadband tested Nvidia GeForce Now<\/a><\/strong> through Rain’s beta and had a near-flawless online multiplayer experience.<\/p>\n

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Starfield<\/p><\/div>\n

However, the service struggled with newer, more GPU-intensive games like Starfield<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We tested the service<\/a><\/strong> on a 250\/250Mbps fibre-to-the-home connection using an Acer laptop connected via Ethernet cable.<\/p>\n

The setup produced a latency of 17ms between our system and the GeForce Now South African server.<\/p>\n

Our online multiplayer game testing, which included Counter-Strike 2<\/em> and Apex: Legends<\/em>, found no noticeable input delay for our in-game actions.<\/p>\n

The latency between our GeForce Now rig and the Counter-Strike servers sat at around 4ms, and frame rates in Counter-Strike 2<\/em> and Apex: Legends<\/em> ranged from 100 to 130fps and 100 to 120fps, respectively.<\/p>\n

Testing in Starfield<\/em> achieved frame rates of between 15 and 22fps with graphics settings maxed out and rendering at a native 1080p resolution.<\/p>\n

After dropping graphics settings to the “High” profile with native rendering, the frame rate increased slightly to about 20 to 25fps and 25 to 30fps on “Medium” settings.<\/p>\n

We also tested alternative history shooter Atomic Heart<\/em>, which is less graphically intensive than Starfield<\/em>, and achieved 60fps consistently with the highest “Atomic” graphics profile.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Xbox reveals Black Friday deals for South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Users who link their Xbox account to Nvidia GeForce Now can launch all of their supported games from their streaming library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":515845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[57208,90903,89620,123,74084,90901,43716,74734,2682],"class_list":["post-515841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-apex-legends","tag-atomic-heart","tag-counter-strike-2","tag-microsoft","tag-nvidia-geforce-now","tag-pc-games-pass","tag-rain","tag-starfield","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515959,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515841\/revisions\/515959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}