GeForce Now

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 15 threads.

People raised many different problems with GeForce Now, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 19 complaints

Connected Steam and Epic accounts show only a subset of owned games as playable2026-10-23
60ms latency makes quicktime events and fast combat frustrating to play2026-10-07
Cluttered with game icons, confusing and overwhelming for non-tech-savvy users2023-08-30
Abstraction layer leaks, causing crashes, repeated reauth prompts and shortcuts acting on the wrong layer2023-01-17
Must log into launchers with MFA every time a new session starts2022-09-30
Has to re-login to Steam almost every time, with lag and encoding errors2022-09-29
80ms input lag makes games feel unplayable and aiming difficult2022-08-29
Added streaming latency makes the mouse feel sluggish and hard to position2022-08-25
Input lag makes games unplayable, with latency rising and falling during play2022-08-25
Streamed games lag badly and look like a flip-book2021-07-15
Must re-login to Uplay, Epic or Steam every so often with MFA2021-03-24
Awkward, clunky user experience compared to other services2021-02-01
Can't run above 1920x1080, frustrating on 1920x1200 or 1440p monitors2020-12-26
Hard to tweak mouse speed to match local computer; slow launch and input lag2020-09-25
Clunky library selection and installation process, plus long wait times2020-09-24
Launching a game takes about five minutes through a stripped-down Windows shell and Steam login2020-03-01
UI freezes for 30 seconds after clicking join; logout doesn't log you out2020-02-05
No good way to find which games are supported; must check each Steam game manually2020-02-05
Account page stuck saying order in progress, user must retry2020-02-04