- The first step would be creating a free Protonvpn account. (If you already have another VPN provider you can skip the first few steps involving Protonvpn)
- When you’re finished creating one, go to the downloads tab, and grab the executable if you’re on Windows.
OR
- If you’re on Linux, particularly an Arch-based (btw) system, you can get it from the AUR with the
protonvpn-guipackage or by setting up openvpn and downloading the .ovpn UDP files and adding them through networkmanager. For Ubuntu/Debian based systems, just grab the .deb file from their site.
OR
- If you’re on mobile platform, just download Protonvpn from the Play store, no biggie.
- Once you’re done installing the apps, connect to Netherlands, any of the free ones.
- Then head over to https://play.geforcenow.com
Click on Log In at the top right corner.
Scroll down to this part and click on Join under the Free section.
Use any of these methods to sign in or create a new account, google being the preferred choice.
- They’ll send you a verification email on your email ID, verify it.
- Once you verify, you’ll get a daunting and confusing screen like this one:
Just click on Not now and proceed.
- Now: you have two options, you could get their native Geforce Now app from this page itself or continue in your web browser on the site https://play.geforcenow.com. Make sure you’re using Google Chrome and not any fork of it like Brave or Chromium as they are NOT supported apparently.
I personally prefer the web version as it has been more reliable for me but to each their own.
The entire process is same up until now for the mobile platform as well, just with a smaller screen.
- Mobile users can grab the latest GeForce Now .apk file from this link. Make sure that you’re grabbing the latest release as you cannot update it through the Play Store.
Now when you sign in to the clients, you’ll be asked to log in with a screen like this:
Click on the big Nvidia icon and go through the login process, it shouldn’t take long.
Once you’re logged back in, come back to the client/site.
- Now fire up the app/site and search the game that you want to play. Make sure that you own it in a supported platform that they mention like Epic, Steam or GOG.
- Fire up the game.
Let’s say I wanna play Cyberpunk and since I own it on Epic, I’ll select Epic and press play.
Do the formalities like signing in to your Epic account, pressing play on the launcher etc etc.
The moment you’re into the game, press Windows key and disconnect from the vpn.
On mobile simply go to the Notifications shade and disconnect from there.
And that’s it! You’ve got your very own powerful rig to play with. Piece of Advice: Netherlands’ servers are mostly free during the day but during night time, you’ll get exceptionally long queue times. So during the night you can switch to the US servers and have a decent enough experience, not as good as Netherlands but if you’re not patient this is your way.
This was a long post that took some time to compile, hope this doesn’t violate any rules of the sub and get removed.
I’d be glad if this helped even a single gamer, drop a comment if you need any help.
Also huge thanks to u/swyk16 and u/upamanyu33 for guiding me through this process.
Edit: Btw you don’t have to specifically use ProtonVPN, you can use any provider you like, I just recommended proton vpn as it’s free, so if you have access to these countries through any other vpn service, by all means use those, as it’s not a huge factor since you’ll have to disconnect from it as soon as the game starts anyways.