NVIDIA SHIELD Android Gaming Portable Update Supports 1080p Game Streaming at 60 FPS
We were impressed with NVIDIA’s SHIELD portable gaming system when we reviewed it in depth, but NVIDIA announced even more features that bump the device’s prowess up even further.
The most notable update concerns GameStream, a tool that’s fresh out of beta and lets users stream games from your (GeForce GTX-equipped) PC to SHIELD; even better, in Console Mode, you can use a controller and GameStream to play on a big screen. GameStream now offers streaming at 1080p at 60fps over an Ethernet connection, which is all the more notable because the SHIELD’s display is only 720p.
Other new features include Gamepad Mapper, which optimizes Android games for the SHIELD’s analog controls and thus adds a slew of Android games that will work with the device, as well as a community profile feature (in beta) so users can share and browse for mapping profiles and a Full Screen Mode that hides the Android status bar on the display when you’re gaming.
You can also now use the right thumb stick to “look around” in first-person games, there’s a better cursor for navigation, and you have the ability to map gyroscope movements to the physical controls.
The most notable update concerns GameStream, a tool that’s fresh out of beta and lets users stream games from your (GeForce GTX-equipped) PC to SHIELD; even better, in Console Mode, you can use a controller and GameStream to play on a big screen. GameStream now offers streaming at 1080p at 60fps over an Ethernet connection, which is all the more notable because the SHIELD’s display is only 720p.
Other new features include Gamepad Mapper, which optimizes Android games for the SHIELD’s analog controls and thus adds a slew of Android games that will work with the device, as well as a community profile feature (in beta) so users can share and browse for mapping profiles and a Full Screen Mode that hides the Android status bar on the display when you’re gaming.
You can also now use the right thumb stick to “look around” in first-person games, there’s a better cursor for navigation, and you have the ability to map gyroscope movements to the physical controls.
