Gamers have asked for GeForce NOW support for years. Today, NVIDIA made it official, opening up GeForce RTX-powered play to Firefox on Windows. Firefox use
So is using Windows in 2026, but here we are with most games requiring it. So there is some usefulness to playing a game I own on a Mac or an iPhone. All you need is a screen and a controller.
I don’t pay for GFN, but I do have an account there.
Could be worse, you could be paying for GamePass and getting nothing but shovelware every month.
Most games do not require windows. It’s mostly huge megacorp publishers requiring it for their AAA titles and esports games, but even then it’s hardly universal.
Apple inexplicably doesn’t have a vulkan driver, which means porting proton is non-trivial and requires another translation layer, and additionally macos doesn’t really have futexes which poses further challenges.
Cloud is just someone else’s PC. It’s gross in general.
So is using Windows in 2026, but here we are with most games requiring it. So there is some usefulness to playing a game I own on a Mac or an iPhone. All you need is a screen and a controller.
I don’t pay for GFN, but I do have an account there.
Could be worse, you could be paying for GamePass and getting nothing but shovelware every month.
Most games do not require windows. It’s mostly huge megacorp publishers requiring it for their AAA titles and esports games, but even then it’s hardly universal.
And yet, when I look at Steam on my Mac, it’s a pretty sad lineup.
A ton of indie games still require Windows.
I don’t count proton compatible games as requiring windows so perhaps that is the discrepancy in our views ;p
Well, if they put Proton on Mac, I wouldn’t either. I don’t want to install Linux.
Apple inexplicably doesn’t have a vulkan driver, which means porting proton is non-trivial and requires another translation layer, and additionally macos doesn’t really have futexes which poses further challenges.