GeForce Now: While a new category has taken the place of the highest tier, the company has introduced restrictions in the middle one.

The highest tier of Nvidia’s GeForce Now is called RTX 3080. It gives you access to Ampere-capable GPUs, streams at 1440p resolution, 120 FPS, allows eight hours of gaming per occasion, but 4K HDR Shield TV is also a solution if you pay €100 per six months for the service. But for the tier below it (which is also a paid solution), the graphics card company has some interesting restrictions.

It all started on Reddit when it discovered that despite paying 50 euros per half-year for the Priority category (6 hours of gameplay per occasion, max 1080p, 60 FPS, servers can be accessed with higher priority), GeForce Now limits the frame rate to 50 FPS for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy… even on loading screens. And this cannot be changed. After contacting Nvidia, the truth surfaced: the company does limit the frame rate for several new and larger AAA games… and thanks to Nvidia we have the list of affected titles and maximum frame rates.

The problem with the limitation is that paid gamers might have been able to preserve the higher performance by, for example, Nvidia upgrading their server park. Then the company added that the restriction is called Optimal Playable Settings (OPS), which means performance saving rather than graphical detail. Priority subscribers can override this in almost all of the 1100 games available as part of the service, but there will still be restrictions, and we have yet to see how many of these titles will be on the list in the future.

According to Nvidia, “For our Priority Members, the maximum frames rendered per second is generally set to 60, or higher, for most of the 1,100+ games we’ve onboarded so far. We determined some exceptions do not run well enough at 60 FPS on the GPUs used by Priority members. So the default OPS for these specific graphics-intensive games cannot be overridden. This is to ensure all Priority members are running a consistent, high-quality experience. However, we do continue to stream these games at 60 FPS.”

Is the RTX 3080 category also affected, or is it exempt from these limitations? That said, that video card is pretty hefty. Nvidia doesn’t seem to keep its word about the 60 FPS promise.

Source: WCCFTech