IIRC I tried the Parsec AMI but it was difficult to use and required a lot of fiddling. I can’t remember the details unfortunately, but I would have preferred to just use that instead of Paperspace (this might be a niche use case since I’m an engineer). If I could have figured that out, I would have written a CLI around it and open sourced it for others to use.
Also because I’m an engineer, I really wanted to read the source code to see how it worked. But I get that it’s your magic sauce :).
Thanks for the awesome tech!
Concretely, update the “solutions for cloud rented pc’s” section at this link: https://support.parsecgaming.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002601...
(Which the client points at)
On paperspace, you need to set up a paid public IP, or deal with higher latency. Now I know what ZeroTier is, but my network latency was 100ms under load vs 30 with the public IP...
It took me four hours to debug this. Also, why does the server send every other UDP packet to a mysterious port on startup? (According to tcpdump on my router)
Also, in the question about broken mouse cursors, the correct answer is to close the paperspace web tab displaying the desktop of the instance.
Cheers!
I’ll definitely recommend parsec to friends. I got rid of my last windows box a while back, but I have a few windows-only steam titles that I’d like to play.
Moving forward, my gaming desktop is something like a 25% of the household electricity budget. I hate wasting all that power, so I really want to replace it with a thin client.
https://blog.paperspace.com/setting-up-your-cloud-gaming-rig...
My son's young enough that he still goes through phases. That and he leaves every summer to go to his grandparents'. Sticking with cloud gaming gives me the freedom to just throw everything away or stop using it for long periods of time without guilt.
Also, it honestly makes me feel better to know that I didn't buy a bunch of fancy hardware to to use 3.6% of the time. AWS rents the hardware out to somebody else when I'm not using it, and is strongly incentivized to get its utilization as close to 100% as possible.
And Stadia doesn't have either game.
If you run your own host, you can play whatever game you want, and mod it however you feel like. Otherwise, you're stuck with whatever curated stuff the platform provides.
Ah, I see we're alike.
I'm glad I went ahead and got a gaming rig from best buy for $900. Because after playing legacy games at extremely high frame rate for about 2 weeks, I proceed to spend all my spare time on a random javascript game.
At this rate I'll get to my ML workstation and train my own GAN at 2035.
Setup details: I use Paperspace since it has an image with everything already configured (doing this is surprisingly tricky, I was never able to get GPU drivers installed and configured myself after hours of trying and also trying various AMIs). It has auto-shutdown after an hour of inactivity. I use VirtualHere to forward a joystick to the host, and Parsec for streaming. It works great, and I pay $.50/hr plus $5/mo for storage. Over WiFi with the cheapest Comcast plan, the latency is about 30 ms, which is fine for those games.