Re:Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)
by chatmasta on Monday February 10, 2020 @05:10PM
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GeForce Now is fantastic. I'm not a serious enough gamer to warrant buying a PC, and I do all my work on my MacBook Air 2013. It's pretty cool to boot up a GeForce instance and get to use all the resource intensive games (games like Civ, Cities Skylines) without my computer frying my legs off.
I tried a round of FPS with it. It wasn't that bad, honestly. My ping to the GeForce server was about 12ms, and the ping from GeForce to the game server was < 2ms. That's actually lower latency than I'm used to with an Xbox.
It did feel a bit laggy, though, despite the low latency. But I'd try it again. For me the benefit is in resource-intensive single player games.
I tried a round of FPS with it. It wasn't that bad, honestly. My ping to the GeForce server was about 12ms, and the ping from GeForce to the game server was < 2ms. That's actually lower latency than I'm used to with an Xbox.
It did feel a bit laggy, though, despite the low latency. But I'd try it again. For me the benefit is in resource-intensive single player games.
Either way, for $5 a month, it's a great deal!