Nvidia has revealed which games on its Geforce Now game streaming platform have frame rate limits below 60. It concerns twelve games, which Nvidia concludes that they “do not offer a consistent high-quality experience” without those limits.
Users on Reddit, for example, have previously noted that certain games on Geforce Now simply never exceed certain frame rates, despite the service being able to display a maximum of 60fps with a Priority subscription. That post was a week ago and now Nvidia has published a list itself. The worst cases are Cyberpunk 2077 and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey with up to 45fps.
Nvidia explains that games will have their own ‘optimally playable settings’ and that paying Priority members of the service can adjust these settings per session. However, that does not apply to the games below: the frame rate ceiling always applies to them. In all likelihood, it also applies to users of the free membership. These maximums do not apply to the newly introduced RTX 3080 subscription, Nvidia tells The Verge.
Apparently there is no option for gamers to lower the graphics settings of these games and use the freed up computing power for a higher frame rate. The Priority plan offers performance roughly equivalent to an RTX 2080, which suggests that 60fps should be achievable in at least some of these games if you switch off the bells and whistles. 60fps is the maximum frame rate of that subscription.
Nvidia also tells The Verge that it cannot be ruled out that the RTX 3080 subscription will have to deal with such frame rate limits in the future, because it is “impossible to estimate what future games will have on our server hardware”. The new plan offers up to 1440p at 120fps on PCs and with a Shield TV, 4k with HDR is supported.
| Dauntless | 55 | January ’20 |
| Immortal Phoenix Rising | 48 | Nov ’20 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 45 | Dec ’20 |
| Assassin’s Creed Odyssey | 45 | Dec ’20 |
| Jurassic World Evolution | 50 | February ’21 |
| Dyson Sphere Program | 50 | February ’21 |
| Valheim | 50 | February ’21 |
| Path of Exile | 50 | March ’21 |
| Outriders | 50 | March ’21 |
| Kenshi | 50 | May ’21 |
| Biomutant | 50 | May ’21 |
| Dying Light | 50 | June ’21 |