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<p align="center"></p><p><p>Last month alongside the release of the GeForce GTX 950, NVIDIA also announced that they would be releasing a new suite of updates for GeForce Experience called Shared. The cornerstone of this update would be GameStream Co-Op, a new GameStream feature that used the technology to allow a remote player play a local co-op game via streaming.</p>

<p>At the time NVIDIA announced that Share and GameStream Co-Op would be released in beta form in September, and today they&rsquo;ve done just that with GeForce Experience 2.6. Curiously, NVIDIA calls this an &ldquo;early access beta,&rdquo; where it isn&rsquo;t clear how this differs from a regular &ldquo;beta.&rdquo; But, I suspect, the naming is marketing driven given the success of the Steam Early Access program.</p>

<p>In any case, along with today&rsquo;s release NVIDIA has also published a few more details about the feature. Co-op game streaming is fixed at 720p30, for which NVIDIA recommends 7Mbps of upload bandwidth. Host games by and large work so long as they&rsquo;re DX9+ and run in full screen mode, though NVIDIA has a compatibility list up with their findings for major games. Meanwhile on the client side only Google Chrome is currently supported, which is accomplished via a Chrome Plug-In.</p>

<p>Finally, we've also been informed that there is a 1 hour time limit on GameStream Co-Op connections. This would appear to be in place to prevent abuse of the system for non co-op purposes, such as using the tech to stream games outright to friends as a means to avoid buying a proper copy of a game.</p>
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