Nvidia uses Control's ray trace technology to improve blurring in the GeForce Now library.

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Nvidia uses Control's ray trace technology to improve blurring in the GeForce Now library.

Nvidia has stopped the flow of game streaming blood pouring from its GeForce Now library and is starting to bring games back into its streaming catalog that feature ray tracing support for Founders members, starting with Control.

Remedy's Control was one of the big misses when Nvidia announced that it was bringing RTX servers online for its GeForce Now game streaming service. It was the most impressive implementation of ray tracing powered by Microsoft DXR and, barring an upcoming Minecraft update, seemed like an obvious title that should be in the GFN library if Nvidia wanted to show off its product.

Also, the fact that it is one of the exclusive titles on the Epic Games Store made it doubly odd that "Control" was not on Nvidia's streaming service after Tim Sweeney announced Epic's "full support."

This mistake has now been remedied, and Control has been added to the GeForce Now catalog and is accessible as long as you play the game on your Epic Games Store account. And if you are a Founders member and managed to get it before it sold out in Europe, you will have access to all of The Oldest House's ray-traced beauty and its super glossy floors.

Nvidia is also trying to bring an extended version of The Foundation to their service. But honestly, we don't know if they need to bother ...

You have to select the DirectX 12 version from the initial Epic launcher menu, but Nvidia is currently automatically enabling the ray tracing settings for Founders members. Initially, it appeared that the settings would need to be adjusted manually, but this has now been corrected.

This is not the only new game being added this week, GeForce Now also has Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Dungeons 3, Headsnatchers, IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire, and The Guild 3 were also added to the library.

Nvidia has pledged to align most of its releases with Thursdays, so keep an eye on GeForce Now weekly to see what goodies it adds in the future.

After all the games pulled by the likes of Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, and 2K, it's good to finally see the game return to service. I am a big fan of GeForce Now and as the only game streaming service I would hate to see it fail.

Wait, what, Google Stadia is still going.

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