Beast Rig mode for a Mac user!

Gaming has always been on a console for me. Except for one year when I had a win 3.1 machine that I was using for AutoCAD and sneakily played X-Wing.

Either side of that I’ve always been a Mac fan, and since the 90’s always had one of the pro towers and all sorts of graphics cards.

Then on 2015 I switched to the Mac Mini, an iPad and a MacBook Air - a world of integrated gfx - and said goodbye to pc gaming completely.

During lockdown everyone of my friends is on Tabletop Simulator - and the one time I tried to run it, my machines overheated.

So, and the point of the thread - I’ve been looking at external GPU’s. I’ll still need to upgrade to the 2019 Mac Mini for official support, but there are hacks for older machines.

And then, I found Nvidia are doing a virtual GPU I signed up for their free trial, and spent the weekend playing Wingspan with my friends. It worked like a dream, except that the free level makes you log out every hour - but it was manageable.

I’m waiting for the premium level to be opened up - which gives six hour sessions for £5 a month.

And now I’m all sorts of confused. This vGPU is all that I really need - but I do want their premium membership level.

It's just a streaming service - I'm not sure where the virtual GPU tag is coming from (this is more the tech used server side to deliver the games). There are plenty of streaming services now, and it seems like a YMMV experience but almost certainly is the future of gaming. The question is, is it the future 3 years away, 5 years away or 20 years away. The nVidia one is the one that gives you access to your Steam library though, innit? I think that's a big upside.