Vratislav Holub The GeForce NOW cloud gaming service has received native support from Apple Silicon. Nvidia, which operates the service, announced this news yesterday and promises a number of benefits from the service. Apparently, thanks to this optimization, Apple users will see a much better operation of the application that takes care of launching games, and lower battery consumption. However, this is said about any software that will receive native support. What is the reality and are we really going to get anywhere with this?
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What native support will help with
As we mentioned above, the main advantage of the arrival of native support is better running and greater economy. Of course, this applies to absolutely every application. It is also relatively simple. Now, in order to run software that was not optimized for Apple Silicon or does not offer its native support, we need an additional layer to translate the application from one architecture to another - in this case from x86 (Macs with Intel processors) to ARM (Macs with Apple chipsets Silicon). This role in the world of apple makers is played by a solution called Rosetta 2. At the heart of the matter, it is not a banal task at all, and it is therefore understandable that it eats up a large part of the available resources and therefore affects performance. After all, this is precisely why such applications run for a long time and can be accompanied by a number of problems.
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In practice, however, it is highly individual. While some applications can run completely flawlessly through Rosetta 2 without even noticing the use of the translation layer, for others the situation may not be so rosy. A great example is a communicator Discord, which ran disastrously before native support and was severely hacked on Macs (Apple Silicon). However, once it was optimized, it worked normally. Fortunately, it's not that bad with the GeForce NOW app, and the software runs more or less fine, so there's no problem with gameplay either. Nevertheless, we can look forward to some changes.
GeForce NOW: Rosetta 2, or native support?
Native support for the GeForce NOW app should come soon with the next update. We already know about the specific changes it will bring us some Friday. We can play through this cloud gaming service in several ways, and using the official application is just one of them. Playing via the Google Chrome internet browser is still offered, which, unlike the aforementioned program, has native support for Apple Silicon. We don't find much difference in gameplay. The games will run more or less the same, which fortunately is not a problem because their quality is currently at a high level. Rather, we can rejoice in the little things around us.
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Accordingly, we can say that we will see a significantly more functional application as such. Specifically, that, for example, the selection of games or settings will run much better. We will probably also see one more benefit. When we run games through the official GeForce NOW application, we have the option to activate an overlay that then informs us about statistics (number of frames per second, response, packet loss), recorded footage and other options. It was the overlap that could cause minor problems for some and cause the entire gameplay to slow down. In this respect, it is quite possible that we will see an improvement. Although it will not have a direct effect on the quality of the games, you can count on greater friendliness and user comfort.
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