What just happened? Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service is limiting what the service provider calls Optimal Playable Settings (OPS), also known as frames per 2nd, on 12 games for all priority members. The game streaming platform made the decision to ensure that all priority members have "a consequent, high-quality feel."

Depending on your GeForce Now membership, specific OPS settings are practical, affecting the game's performance, graphics, and streaming quality. If you're a priority member, y'all tin override the default OPS contour with custom settings in virtually games, merely that's changing co-ordinate to Nvidia.

A back up document constitute by a Reddit user on Nvidia'due south website states that at that place "are some exceptions that … do not run well enough at 60 FPS on the GPUs used by Priority members." To solve this issue and ensure that all priority members have a consistent gaming feel, Nvidia won't permit priority members to override the OPS contour on 12 games.

Games similar Outriders and Dauntless—probably the less graphic-intensive games in this list—volition run at a maximum of 55fps. Other more enervating games such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey will be limited to running at 45fps. You lot can see the complete list of games and respective OPS in the table below:

Game OPS Date added
Dauntless 55 FPS January 2022
Immortals Fenyx Rising 48 FPS November 2022
Cyberpunk 2077 45 FPS December 2022
Assassinator's Creed Odyssey 45 FPS Dec 2022
Jurassic Globe Evolution 50 FPS February 2022
Dyson Sphere Program l FPS February 2022
Valheim 50 FPS February 2022
Path of Exile 50 FPS March 2022
Outriders 55 FPS March 2022
Kenshi 50 FPS May 2022
Biomutant fifty FPS May 2022
Dying Light 50 FPS June 2022

Tabular array listing all the games that run on GeForce Now with frame rates below 60fps

Although priority members will run these 12 games at less than 60fps, Nvidia volition continue to stream them to your device at 60fps, most likely to ensure your gaming experience remains as smooth equally possible. Moreover, the tech company stated information technology continues to evaluate these titles and arrange the OPS accordingly.

Because Nvidia's explanation, it's unexpected to see games like Path of Exile and Dying Low-cal on this list. Despite having relatively low organization requirements, these games volition be limited to 50fps, while Outriders, which is far more graphically enervating, can run at 55fps.

What is also surprising is that the Guardians of the Galaxy game is missing from this list. The Redditor that plant Nvidia'due south support certificate reported that this game was also limited to 50fps, even after changing the graphics settings.

This news comes less than a month after Nvidia appear a new GeForce Now tier that gives members access to its low-latency "SuperPODs" equipped with AMD Threadripper Pro CPUs and RTX 3080 GPUs, allowing yous to play at a 1440p resolution and upwardly to 120fps.

At the moment, GeForce Now supports over 1,100 games, and the library keeps increasing. Today, Nvidia added vi new games to the platform, including Bright Memory: Space, Epic Chef, Jurassic World Evolution ii, MapleStory, Severed Steel, and Tale of Immortal.