Forza Motorsport paywall
Starting April 1, Forza Motorsport will be restricted to Premium (paid) GeForce NOW subscribers — free‑tier users will lose access as the game’s hardware demands rise. Nvidia’s streaming policy change also affects games like Cyberpunk 2077, Icarus and Ark: Survival Ascended. (neowin.net)
Nvidia says GeForce NOW’s free “basic rig” no longer meets the updated minimum system requirements for a subset of graphically demanding PC titles, citing needs such as 16GB system memory or GPUs that support ray tracing. (nvidia.custhelp.com) Publicly published rig specifications show the free tier is provisioned with roughly 6GB of GPU‑side memory in its basic configuration, while Performance tiers expose ~12GB class allocations and Ultimate connects to 24–48GB class hardware. (geforcenowspecs.cloud) The move coincides with Nvidia’s rollout of Blackwell/RTX‑5080‑class servers and new 90fps VR streaming for Ultimate members, upgrades Nvidia says raise the platform’s performance baseline for high‑end titles. (nvidianews.nvidia.com) Nvidia and third‑party trackers have explicitly flagged several high‑profile games — including Cyberpunk 2077, Forza Motorsport, Icarus and Ark: Survival Ascended — as requiring paid/Premium access on GeForce NOW’s library pages. (neowin.net) GeForce NOW’s streaming model still requires users to own a game or hold a PC Game Pass license to launch it from Nvidia’s cloud, so the change alters which membership tier can stream owned copies rather than who owns the game. (play.geforcenow.com) This is an extension of earlier policy shifts: Nvidia restricted additional demanding titles from the free tier in January 2026 (examples then included Alan Wake 2 and Cities: Skylines II), indicating a pattern of moving graphically intensive games to paid tiers as server hardware evolves. (attractmo.de)
