zephervack
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Yeah hopefully there is a way to enable SD card access with a rooted shield.
Nvidia Shield Thread
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Yeah hopefully there is a way to enable SD card access with a rooted shield.
I don't see how streaming can change much on an hypothetical hardware refresh. Perhaps a Wifi-AC enabled Shield?
outunderthestars
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Tribes of Trusty
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I've wanted an Android device for emulation for quite some time. And now that I'm decide to order : "Available in US and Canada only"
Europe : LOL
Europe : LOL
Yup I've been playing it the past couple of days and it's FANTASTIC.
Owlowiscious
Member
WTS
nVidia Shield - $180 shipping to US included.
Opened, never used.
hmmmm.... $170 +shipping costs outside the US
Edit: Sold.
nVidia Shield - $180 shipping to US included.
Opened, never used.
hmmmm.... $170 +shipping costs outside the US
Edit: Sold.
I've wanted an Android device for emulation for quite some time. And now that I'm decide to order : "Available in US and Canada only"
Europe : LOL
Just use MyUS (www.myus.com), Borderlinx or other mail forwarding system and get a Shield from Amazon and ship to to the US address they'll give you(and then they'll ship it to you).
Shield is amazing, Nvidia is stupid to not sell it worldwide.
this is pretty tempting.. but no nVidia GPU
anyone got Kainy working on Android with the Sixaixs?
My Nvidia Shield has the worst battery life I've ever experienced. My screen on time is 28 minutes, and the battery life is down to 32%. I last charged only about 24 hours ago.
60% of the battery says it is NVIDIA SHIELD Services (no idea what that is, but it seems that it's been on the ENTIRE time since my battery was charged), 21% is Mediaserver (no idea what that is), and 7% is screen, then 6% Wi-Fi, 5% Android System, and 2% Android OS.
I have location access disabled, and I have it set to where WiFi is turned off when the device is asleep.
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HAPPENING.
60% of the battery says it is NVIDIA SHIELD Services (no idea what that is, but it seems that it's been on the ENTIRE time since my battery was charged), 21% is Mediaserver (no idea what that is), and 7% is screen, then 6% Wi-Fi, 5% Android System, and 2% Android OS.
I have location access disabled, and I have it set to where WiFi is turned off when the device is asleep.
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HAPPENING.
Okay, I just did that. Hope this helps.
Sometimes there will be an app that will keep the CPU running at full tilt. Easiest way to find out if this is happening is to put your ear near the exhaust vent and listen if the cpu fan is running. It should stop running a minute or two after you put it to sleep. If it doesn't, close out apps and/or restart the shield.
MDSLKTR
Gold Member
You won't get 60fps streaming without a (good) dual band. Otherwise you're limited to 30fps which is playable depending of games.
Update got delayed until April 7:
https://forums.geforce.com/default/...ment-status-on-shield-april-software-update-/
Thanks for the update. Didn't really do much digging, so that was helpful.
Settings>Display> Full screen mode.
Make sure its unclicked.
That should work unless its a bug or something.
Edit: it's also available in the quick settings menu if you swipe down from the top of the right side of the screen.
zorlaczerohero
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*Breathes a sigh of relief* I'm still using foldermount as I couldn't be bothered moving 30GB+ of apps and games around. This update most likely would have stopped that dead, even rooted. Hopefully SDFix will sort that out. Though to be honest I should just suck it up and reinstall everything properly.
EDIT*
just found this on XDA-devs
Clever foldermount!
So it looks like foldermount will do the same job as SDFix.
Got my Shield today. It spent a while upgrading (it was a bunch of revisions behind; the previous owner only used it once and put it back in the box. His loss..). I had a chance to try streaming from my PC and I also tried out the Grid beta.
Streaming took forever to get going. Part of it was the old software on the Shield, but even after updating, I still had to physically be at the PC to accept the connection, and I had to tab back from Steam to the game to get it to show up in the stream. Once streaming was actually working, though, it worked great. 60fps pretty much all the time in my game of choice (Borderlands 2), and the controller is nice.
I'm actually even more impressed by Grid. I happen to have a high speed connection close enough to Nvidia's data center (~20ms ping) that playing games streamed is effectively indistinguishable from streaming them locally. I played a few minutes of Dead Rising - it played no differently than if I was playing it on my PC, and it never dropped a frame or had control issues.
Not a bad little device. Maybe it will have better success at $200 than it did at the original price.
Streaming took forever to get going. Part of it was the old software on the Shield, but even after updating, I still had to physically be at the PC to accept the connection, and I had to tab back from Steam to the game to get it to show up in the stream. Once streaming was actually working, though, it worked great. 60fps pretty much all the time in my game of choice (Borderlands 2), and the controller is nice.
I'm actually even more impressed by Grid. I happen to have a high speed connection close enough to Nvidia's data center (~20ms ping) that playing games streamed is effectively indistinguishable from streaming them locally. I played a few minutes of Dead Rising - it played no differently than if I was playing it on my PC, and it never dropped a frame or had control issues.
Not a bad little device. Maybe it will have better success at $200 than it did at the original price.
Are there any decent action RPGs that are Shield optimized? The big ones in the Tegra Zone are all ultra-IAP heavy F2P games, supposedly to the point where it sacrifices the core experience for the quick money grab.
(Not that I mind spending money or playing F2P games - I just don't want the game keeping my wallet pried open perpetually just to use things like healing potions or other things that are supposed to be a core part of the ARPG experience.)
(Not that I mind spending money or playing F2P games - I just don't want the game keeping my wallet pried open perpetually just to use things like healing potions or other things that are supposed to be a core part of the ARPG experience.)
Andy I have a couple of questions if you have the time.
When is the shield officially available in Europe?
Is there plans for a revision on the model soon?
I am using a single band router but use a wifi extender that is dual band hardwired to the router, will this work as effectively as a dual band router or will that add lag?
Anyway I appreciate if you could answer.
When is the shield officially available in Europe?
Is there plans for a revision on the model soon?
I am using a single band router but use a wifi extender that is dual band hardwired to the router, will this work as effectively as a dual band router or will that add lag?
Anyway I appreciate if you could answer.
I haven't found any IAP in Mount and Blade: Warband. However, I haven't played that game much.
Any BT or USB controller supported by android should work. Even Ouya's controller.
zephervack
Member
Cant wait to try this, can someone post impressions of the new bitrate settings, hopefully no more "blocky" compression.
New TegraZone is really good. Seems much more organized and useful.
Already knew game streaming worked well on my desktop PC, but tested up on my laptop's 770M and it ran smooth (and very hot). The options in the Advanced steaming quality sections are max bitrate (anywhere from 4 to 20Mbps or Auto) and FPS (30 or 60). Haven't tested much yet. MGR and Titanfall work perfectly as far as I can tell. The in-game graphics settings may drop, I can run Titanfall at 1080p on High at 60fps, but when I streamed it to set itself to 720p on Low. Put it back up to High and there was some stuttering but overall it was okay. Playing at 30fps everything with razor sharp on a non-dual band router.
Already knew game streaming worked well on my desktop PC, but tested up on my laptop's 770M and it ran smooth (and very hot). The options in the Advanced steaming quality sections are max bitrate (anywhere from 4 to 20Mbps or Auto) and FPS (30 or 60). Haven't tested much yet. MGR and Titanfall work perfectly as far as I can tell. The in-game graphics settings may drop, I can run Titanfall at 1080p on High at 60fps, but when I streamed it to set itself to 720p on Low. Put it back up to High and there was some stuttering but overall it was okay. Playing at 30fps everything with razor sharp on a non-dual band router.
Played around a bit, and I could get 30fps with crisp sharp everything, or 60fps with everything not quite as sharp. Not blocky or anything though, I couldn't see any artifacts. Run smooth with only a little bit of lag for the first ten seconds or so.
Better than Wii U gamepad now as far as I can see.
If it's a Steam game supported by GeForce Experience there's instant support for it on SHIELD. Today's update added an easier way for folks to manually add unsupported games, and there's also an easy way to RDP to your system if you need to do that to launch the game.
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/gtc-2014-nvidia-shield-software-update-announcement goes over the update, and http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/nvidia-shield-user-guide#3 covers the adding of Steam games.
Arpeggio23
Member
Where can I find these settings?
Pretty much.
Settings -> GameStream PCs -> Top Right Hand Corner (Advanced) -> Streaming Quality
Should work for most things, why not just test?
With sound? And what kind of games do you like?
GuitarAnthony
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I'm only getting 2.
jim-jam bongs
Member
The Walking Dead is finally out in the regular Play store (it was out for Kindle exclusively before). And the cool news is that it's Tegra enhanced, and has the "Plays great on NVIDIA SHIELD" slogan on the store page meaning it has native controls. The first chapter is free, with IAP to unlock the rest.
Still downloading now, will report when I know how it plays.
Still downloading now, will report when I know how it plays.
OldGangWarily
Member
Got my Shield last night...kinda annoyed since I'm pretty sure jackass at GameStop took it home and used it -_-
Pretty impressed with it so far. The only bummer I guess is that to get 1080p/60fps, I would need my TV close to the router
Pretty impressed with it so far. The only bummer I guess is that to get 1080p/60fps, I would need my TV close to the router