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Deathie:
So I decided to try out onlive, which is a public, Free-to-use cloud gaming service.

Cloud gaming is when all the game processes are rendered on their servers, which a HD video stream goes directly to you, eliminating GB's of filesizes on your computer, and being able to play on almost any computer.

Oh man. I thought it would suck, but really, it's pretty awesome.

"Spent 600$ on your new gaming rig? Great. I'm playing Crysis on my netbook at max settings".

The main point of this is to show how well onlive works, despite what I originally thought. The video quality is relatively good. It's not AS GOOD as it being rendered in real time, the quality reduction is noticeable.

Mouse/Keyboard lag is little to none. You'll it when navigating menu's, but while in-game, it's unnoticeable.

So why am I making this thread? Well, I originally got it to try out, but oh man, it's pretty neat. I thought I'd share it for others to check out, since you're not loosing anything, and can pretty much get a free 30-minute demo to FEAR 3 (And a lot of other games).

 They have "Play Passes", which is essentially renting the games for 3-5 days. Another neat feature is the way they handle "Demo's". If you want to try out a game, you have 30 minutes to play the FULL game. You use the trial as many times as you want, but you can't load saves while in the trial.

I decided to get a 3-day play pass for Metro 2033. Looks VERY NAIC.

Anyways, I recorded this earlier today.

F.E.A.R. 3 Gameplay (OnLive)

Screenshots from Metro

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

» Magic «:
I can see the quality loss lol

But

You would need a strong-ish internet connection to be able to stream the game

Deacon:
i like how you wait until you miss the headshot
to aim down your sights.

.___.

» Magic «:
I got this and played a trial of Hawx2

The options to change video settings are disabled

the stream is 720p highly compressed

The graphics settings are definately not max...

I can see a huge difference between rendered on my computer with max and OnLive

Deathie:

--- Quote from: » Magic « on June 24, 2011, 09:36:37 AM ---I got this and played a trial of Hawx2

The options to change video settings are disabled

the stream is 720p highly compressed

The graphics settings are definately not max...

I can see a huge difference between rendered on my computer with max and OnLive

--- End quote ---

Yeah, the quality loss is noticeable, but it's still really high. It's more like watching an HD movie than seeing it being rendered in real-time.

And you only need like ~5MBPS for the HD Streams.

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