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Boosteroid's bitrate cap is an absolute joke. Video looks like pure mud.

I'm honestly done with this. I'm on a 65 Mbps wired connection, 0 packet loss, 20-29ms ping. Everything should run completely fine.

Instead, the stream quality is genuinely unplayable. It doesn't matter that I forced H.265 or dragged the bitrate slider to 50 Mbps in the app. The stream literally refuses to go above 20-21 Mbps.

Took a quick video of my screen so you can see how bad it gets

Look at the fog and the sky. It’s not even a smooth gradient, it's just giant pixel blocks and awful color banding. The second I move the camera, the grass and terrain turn into a blurry, pixelated soup. It looks like a 480p video stretched out to 1080p.

I emailed support about it and they just hit me with the usual "record a clip, play around with the desktop app" nonsense.

Why even have a bitrate slider if your servers are hard-capping us at 20 Mbps? Is anyone else stuck at this 20-21 Mbps limit, or is their compression always this trash?

u/Far-Hat7455 — 1 day ago

After 2 years of monthly subs, I'm done and will stop recommending this service

I don't know what you are doing as a company, but you are doing something wrong.
I feel like a fool for recommending and glazing this service to a bunch of people that are now regular users.

months to fix a windows watermark appearing on every game, some from session start?

tens of games with broken fps, laggy machines, shader issues, etc FOR MONTHS WITH NO FIX.

removed OFFICIAL supported games with no prior warning, never added them back, never explained why.

default stance of support is to blame users 100% unless proven wrong

mods replying with automated responses that even chatpgt could come up with something more humane and decent.

''dev team is working on it'' ''we will surely add your vote'' ''we have no information about this issue''

''please sir care to do a internet test for the 129th time? maybe this time it truly is your internet!''

seriously? do better, it's time. billion dollar company btw. Lazy and malicious.

PRICE OF ULTRA PRO FOR TWO YEARS: €270

save a little more and enjoy actual gaming with 0 headaches :)

Nintendo Switch Lite €200–230
Nintendo Switch OLED €300–350
Nintendo Switch 2 €470
PS5 Digital ~€450
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Games keep crashing.

Alan Wake 2 and control keeps crashing on me. 2 times for both games within an hour. The menu settings in control will not let me access my normal settings but will zoom in on the picture and then I have to back out of that selected setting to view the correct window . Something is going on with boosteroid today with High wait times, muddy pictures, just a horrible experience and I wish it would be fixed. I seem to have way more issues with boosteroid than others. ​

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u/No_Masterpiece5726 — 1 day ago

My Boosteroid experience suddenly became terrible — the app connection is constantly bad, but the browser works fine

I want some help understanding what is happening with Boosteroid, because my experience has been absolutely terrible. Terrible.

About a week ago, I started noticing that every session I launch has a terrible connection. It makes no sense. Because when I close the session and run the connection test, it exceeds all the minimum and recommended requirements. I can get over 100 Mbps of speed, and my latency is also usually very low.

However, I recently noticed that my latency has increased a lot. It went from around 10 ms to 21 ms, while it normally always stayed around 10 or 11 ms.

Now, every time the connection becomes terrible, I only get one red connection bar, indicating that the connection is bad. Then I have to close the session and start it again. But eventually, it happens again. Then I have to close the session and open it again.

https://preview.redd.it/pd3hkmmcilkh1.png?width=2559&format=png&auto=webp&s=fe36a7dd685e9f2bddcb34ea7340125c0f8ce696

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I have already uninstalled the app and reinstalled it from scratch. I even removed it from my computer through the Windows Control Panel to make sure it was completely removed, and then I installed it again. I tried this because sometimes there can be something wrong with a specific installation or some kind of corrupted file, so I wanted to make sure that wasn't the problem.

I already did all of that, but when I play through the browser, the game feels completely different. In other words, the problem seems to be with the application.

This has never happened to me before because I have always used the Boosteroid application. Always. I have always used the app, and I never had this problem.

But recently, this has been happening, and the experience has been horrible. Horrible.

I want help. I need help. I want to understand what is happening because I have already tried alternative ways to fix this without any success. Nothing worked.

I want to understand what is going on so I can try to fix it and stop getting this weird connection state, because it makes absolutely no sense to me.

There is no one else using my internet at home. I live alone, so I'm the only person using the connection. I also play using an Ethernet cable (RJ45).

One thing I could try is testing it over Wi-Fi 5 to see if the behavior is different. Maybe it could make a difference, I don't know. I haven't tried that yet.

But I really want to ask for help and try to fix this because this has never happened to me before, even though I have always used the Boosteroid application to play.

So, something is clearly happening, and I want to figure out what it is and try to solve it.

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u/Ok-Skin-9073 — 1 day ago

Crusader Kings 3 Mods

I am coming over from GeForceNow because they stopped allowing steam workshop mods. I have a couple questions on how steam mods work on Boosteroid.

I created a playset earlier today, added all the mods I want and was able to get into a game fine. But just now I went to continue my game and my playset was completely gone. I had to build it again before playing. Once I did that, I noticed there was no “continue game” button, only “Play”. Once I got into the games main menu, it will only let me start a new game. It said I have no save games. Is there something I need to be doing to save my playset and (more importantly) save my game?

Any help is much appreciated!

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u/Drama-meme — 1 day ago
▲ 106 r/BoosteroidCommunity+1 crossposts

An update regarding Steam Workshop and mods on GeForce NOW

We got an update from NVIDIA regarding Steam Workshop and modding in general on GFN:

"Steam Workshop mods are not officially supported on GeForce NOW.
However, some players have been able to use them by downloading the mods again each time they launch a game.

"To support the latest Steam app updates and ensure supported games are able to run as expected on the cloud, we need to disable the ability to download the Workshop Mods during a game session."

"This means that Workshop mods that previously worked this way will no longer be available. This may affect games including Crusader Kings III, Cities Skylines II, ARK: Survival Ascended, and others.
We understand this will be disappointing for players who have been using Steam Workshop mods on GeForce NOW and we’re sorry for any impact on your gaming."

"Looking ahead, we plan to explore officially supporting Steam Workshop Mods on the cloud. There's currently no timeline to share with the users right now"

Why is that?

Leaving technical details behind, this decision was based in a recent Steam update which required mods to be currently shutdown to ensure there's no compatibility issues related to the games. Games running in the old Steam version with mod support were holding games behind and leaving them in the "compatibility issues" state for weeks (ex: Grim Dawn) even if they were not using mods or don't have modding support.

Moving forward, this new Steam update with mod capabilities disabled with prevent games to stop being stuck in this state and make updates/changes smooth and easier to all games in general launched on Steam.

Questions?

The official NVIDIA channels are always open for feedback, including this reddit post comment section. Any issues or questions related to this change could only be handled through official channels which are available below:

Ticket

Live Chat

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u/Adept_Assistance — 3 days ago

Quinfall update: Not enough room to install

Good afternoon,

The Quinfall just released a fairly large update, and the VM ran out of space trying to update. Please help :)

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u/meckstss — 2 days ago
▲ 70 r/BoosteroidCommunity+5 crossposts

CloudGear v2.0 is now available, with CloudGear for Apple TV, full Steam Controller support, and a new Virtual Mouse!

CloudGear v2.0 is the biggest update since launch, and it's out now on the App Store. It's the release that takes CloudGear off the phone: there's now a CloudGear app for Apple TV.

Thanks to everyone who ran the public beta since June. All the feedback we received was instrumental in getting v2.0 to where it is today.

CloudGear for Apple TV

Browse and launch games on your iPhone or iPad exactly as you do today, then play them on your Apple TV in up to 4K with HDR10 and 7.1 surround sound. It's the first app to bring GeForce NOW, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Amazon Luna and Boosteroid to Apple TV together.

It's included with your CloudGear unlock. One subscription or lifetime purchase covers your iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, so there's nothing extra to buy.

Setup takes about a minute: install CloudGear on your Apple TV, enter the six-digit code it shows into CloudGear on your iPhone or iPad, and the two stay paired from then on. It's a companion app rather than a standalone one: your iPhone or iPad does the browsing, the signing in and the launching, and your Apple TV plays the game.

There are two ways to play:

  • Hand-Off is the default. The game moves onto your Apple TV and runs there natively, for the lowest possible latency. Once it's handed off you can lock your iPhone or put it down entirely, and play with a game controller, the Siri Remote touchpad, or a Steam Controller.
  • Tethered keeps your iPhone or iPad connected and relays input, so a keyboard and mouse plugged into it drive the game on the TV. tvOS can't connect to a mouse at all, so this is the only way to play with one on the big screen. It's the mode for strategy games and MMORPGs.

One thing worth knowing before you set it up: controllers pair to the Apple TV itself, not to your phone.

Full Steam Controller support

Valve's new Steam Controller is now a first-class input device on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV (and we believe this makes CloudGear the first third-party app on any platform to introduce full support for it). The original 2015 Steam Controller is supported too.

Pair it once in your device's Bluetooth settings and CloudGear picks it up automatically from then on, across every service. It works as a gamepad with the right trackpad as a precise mouse, with full rumble and trackpad haptics.

The part worth trying is Keyboard & Mouse mode. Every button, stick and trackpad can be remapped to any key or mouse action, which makes keyboard-and-mouse-only games playable with just a controller: map the left stick to WASD, aim with the trackpad, and so on. Press the QAM button to switch modes mid-game.

Virtual Mouse

No mouse and no controller? Virtual Mouse drives a mouse pointer using touch gestures alone: click, drag, right-click and scroll. It's available on GeForce NOW and Boosteroid, and can also be driven from a DualSense or DualShock touchpad.

Plus:

  • New performance overlay showing bitrate, frame rate, ping, jitter and packet loss over the stream, toggled from the in-game menu.
  • New Anti-deadzone setting. Games usually ignore a small area around the centre of each thumbstick, which leaves the stick slow to respond; this cancels that out so aiming stays responsive.
  • New Xbox button shortcut that virtually presses the Guide/Xbox/PS button that iOS and tvOS block on a physical controller.
  • Faster, lower-latency video rendering, with colour accuracy fixes for HDR and 10-bit streams.
  • New app-wide volume slider (Settings > Audio) that sets the stream's volume independently of the system volume.
  • New icon size slider for the bookmark grid, and a new "Disable top-edge swipe" setting for the menu bar.
  • Fixed 5.1 and 7.1 surround always being downmixed to stereo instead of driving multichannel hardware such as an HDMI receiver.
  • Fixed the mouse pointer sometimes failing to lock after switching apps.
  • Fixed the microphone indicator staying lit after a session had ended.
  • GFN: New Auto resolution picks the best option GeForce NOW offers for the screen you're actually playing on, whether that's your device's screen, an external display, or a paired Apple TV.
  • Boosteroid: Fixed left and right modifier keys (Shift, Ctrl, Alt) being sent as the wrong side.
  • Renamed "Connection Stats" to "Stream Details".
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes and other improvements.

Grab it on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/cloudgear-stream-play/id6751054342

u/BitwiseSolutions — 4 days ago

Boosteroid capped at 3-4 Mbps on macOS while Windows gets 20-30 Mbps (same network)

I have been using boosteroid since half a year i guess and i mainly subscribe it to play on my Mac but on my Mac the bitrate sits at 3-4 Mbps and on Windows over the same network it's a clean 20-30 Mbps at full quality and i have to play on my windows.

I have tried different things which can be done on my end with the help of AI.

Setup

Mac: mac mini M4, macOS 26.5

Windows: ROG Ryzen 7 6800h CPU 3050 GPU

Same network - WiFi

Both machines have same things: Latency ~30 ms (nearest server), FPS 110-120, AV1 enabled

Bitrate

- Mac: ~3 Mbps

- Windows: 20-30 Mbps

Tried on Mac

Chrome, Brave, Firefox, Safari - all the same

GPU/hardware acceleration enabled in each

Boosteroid bitrate set to manual for full, plugged in, Low Power Mode off

This is the same issue with any games i play. Is this issue related to my Mac or something else?

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u/Study_monk — 2 days ago

So uhh about garrys mod

So since gfn no longer (for the time being) supports or for a better word let's us use steam workshop mods now would be the perfect time to add gmod as well boosteroid let's us use them and well playing gmod without mods just sucks and it was the only reason I was still using gfn but now no (pretty please add it) so uhh would be nice or allow it on the install section (again pretty please it's been two years) so yeah hopefully soon just come on. (Please my life will be yours)

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u/Mr__Doge — 3 days ago

Wrongly banned trying to play new 7 days to die release on platform.

Hello. There is an issue with the game 7 days to die at least on boosteroid when launching, constantly freezing when the game tries to log into discord by default. After searching up solutions to fix this, I went into the launch options of the game to enable the game launcher to turn off default discord integration and be able to load into the game. After doing so, everything ended up working fine and I was finally able to load into the game but was banned from the service not long after launching the game. Is support available to reach out to here both for the game problem and my account getting banned for fixing it?

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u/SupportAwkward8727 — 4 days ago

Mortal Shell II Is Already Here

The standalone sequel to the dark fantasy souls-like Mortal Shell is now available on Boosteroid through Advance Access. Explore an interconnected open world, possess fallen warriors, and face intense, stamina-free combat ⚔️

The full release arrives on August 20, but owners of the Devout Edition can already jump in 2 days early.

Ready to enter the Shell? 🎮

u/Arthur_Boosteroid — 3 days ago

Problem with Steam Workshop

I actually already posted a comment on one of the threads about this, but it’s a major issue for me - playing my favorite games without mods is practically impossible.

I just signed up for Boosteroid, and it simply doesn’t support Steam Workshop mods(Crusader Kings 3). Does anyone know if this is a permanent limitation, or should I expect this issue to be fixed down the line?

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u/PlaceAggravating4756 — 3 days ago

Boosteroid

No idea why most people complain about this recently I bought a subscription and I'm really happy with it there's a few bugs here and there but overall it's a really great cloud gaming app and I'm happy

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u/SpongebobSdc — 5 days ago

Doom The Dark Ages (Bettlenet)

Every time I try to play in the Blizzard launcher, an update of approximately 20 GB is downloaded but the problem is that at 50% it gives me a storage error, this happens every time I want to play, I reported it a week ago but they haven't resolved it, help.

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u/elbistekcito — 4 days ago