NVIDIA SHIELD - Working!

[nicoliy]

I been using the shield and playing ff14 for over a week now. Works flawless. I play for a couple hours everyday and it holds up well. Best part is you can change in-game screen resolution and make the words bigger on the shield. UI parts can be enlarged and seeing everything on the screen is NOT a problem.
Shield has a popup onscreen touch keyboard for typing and also a onscreen touchscreen mouse pointer.

I can second this. Got the shield this weekend and it has been great. I've been able to take it as far as outside onto my deck and play out there. The only problem I have is occassionally dropping connection to my router, or some slowdown. This is all network related on my end though as I have not yet optimzed my WIFI channels.

I am definately glad I purchased this.

[Warloc79]

I can second this. Got the shield this weekend and it has been great. I've been able to take it as far as outside onto my deck and play out there. The only problem I have is occassionally dropping connection to my router, or some slowdown. This is all network related on my end though as I have not yet optimzed my WIFI channels.

I am definately glad I purchased this.

Yea I use it as a second screen when I play on my big screen tv. I use the popup keyboard on the shield for quick access to inventory and such. I re-mapped some stuff to directional keys like hiding the UI

[SYS_ID]

very cool gonna have to try this ty ty

[Yubn9ne]

Question, using the Steam can you play FFXIV using a Radeon card? i was reading that you needed to have an Nvidia card to stream from the PC to the shield but if you are using the steam app on the shield are you able to still play it? Sorry if that is a dumb question, never used shield so i'm not sure how it works.

[YUP5588]

Have you been able to setup VPN for off home network play?

I just ordered one and would like to get this configured.

[myanth]

how to VPN this and play outside your house

http://mygaming.co.za/news/gadgets/5...-internet.html

using a mobile hotspot probably have to much lag for raiding.. but who wouldnt like to craft some items while at lunch or sell/buy items

try this for vpn

[myanth]

Question, using the Steam can you play FFXIV using a Radeon card? i was reading that you needed to have an Nvidia card to stream from the PC to the shield but if you are using the steam app on the shield are you able to still play it? Sorry if that is a dumb question, never used shield so i'm not sure how it works.

The shield works by converting the graphics at the pc to h264 in realtime, which was developed by nvidia, so it will only work with nvidia cards. It's the same tech used for Shadowplay.

[Huginn]

I have had my Shield running for about three weeks now and it works wonderfully.
I can play FFXIV in my hot tub (though the graphics start to degrade unless i move my wifi router) and having to go to the bathroom is no problem at all. I am planning on getting an amped wireless repeater for the house because the ones i have set up for businesses work great with very low latency.

As far as playability, i have solo healed 5 min garuda runs with no problems. Titan is no problem either; in case you were wondering about latency.

The triggers, or whatever the console gamers call them, are a bit heavy and long on the pull compared to most controllers.

My wife is going out of town on tuesday, so we will see how the latency is when you are 1200 miles from your home computer.

[Dhalmel]

I have had my Shield running for about three weeks now and it works wonderfully.
I can play FFXIV in my hot tub (though the graphics start to degrade unless i move my wifi router) and having to go to the bathroom is no problem at all. I am planning on getting an amped wireless repeater for the house because the ones i have set up for businesses work great with very low latency.

As far as playability, i have solo healed 5 min garuda runs with no problems. Titan is no problem either; in case you were wondering about latency.

The triggers, or whatever the console gamers call them, are a bit heavy and long on the pull compared to most controllers.

My wife is going out of town on tuesday, so we will see how the latency is when you are 1200 miles from your home computer.

What kind of wireless are you using? I feel dual-band N or wireless AC is required for the shield for it.

[YUP5588]

1200 miles? Definitely post an update on how that works out.