Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2

Re:Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gami... by jleight on Friday July 10, 2015 @01:20PM (#9865347)

I have a VMware ESXi box at home that I use to run a Windows VM with a video card passed through. I've been using it to stream Heroes of the Storm with Steam's In-Home Streaming and I get a consistent 30 FPS (1920x1080) with no noticeable lag.

Admittedly, it's not exactly the same as the setup in this article since it's not streaming over the internet, but I would assume that as long as your latency is low and bandwidth is high, you'll have no problem with this setup.

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Re:Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gami... by WA on Friday July 10, 2015 @01:32PM (#9865420)

I'm just wondering. Theoretically, you have an additional hop.

Game server <--> Amazon <--> Home

From a pure latency point of view, this is probably not an issue. However, whatever events you see on screen, the game server sees you reacting slower, because your keyboard basically has a delay of 20-30ms (Home --> Amazon).

Maybe, it depends a bit on the game you play, if this has any negative consequences or not.

Edit: This could be somewhat compensated by the faster connection of Amazon <--> Game server (just assuming that it's faster than a connection from home).

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Re:Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gami... by newman314 on Friday July 10, 2015 @02:45PM (#9865920)

Have you tried to VT-d passthrough the Intel GPU? I was trying to figure out if this would work.

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