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Resident Evil Village demo: No download, no powerful hardware,one click, only 15MB internet required
- Thread starter Fat Frog
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I and many would be fine doing it?
Decontamination Silo
Banned
I remember in the height of the HD format war everyone said the same thing about movies. But here we are.
ParaSeoul
Member
Games are a little more complicated than that.
The future of gaming.
The future is going back region locked games again, and not being able to do shit about it.
If you think a VPN is a viable solution I don't know what to tell you.
ParaSeoul
Member
Trogdor1123
Member
Tried it on my phone and frankly it was better than expected. Still pretty laggy though. It probably would be okish on a decent hardline imo
I have 500 meg internet (50 up), I use a eero mesh that is all hardlined and my nearest access point is about 15 feet away with no walls in between.
I used an iPhone 12 to play it
I have 500 meg internet (50 up), I use a eero mesh that is all hardlined and my nearest access point is about 15 feet away with no walls in between.
I used an iPhone 12 to play it
Decontamination Silo
Banned
You think the progress they've made since the OnLive days is going to stop? I just played a little bit of the demo and it's encouraging how far we've come.
Joelenheimer
Member
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Tried it from Edge browser worked flawlessly. Touch amount of lag though but impressive how it worked hassle free.
Trogdor1123
Member
So not flawless then?
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Kinda shot myself in the foot there
I meant launched flawlessly from the browser.
Bernd Lauert
Banned
I think the point is that it doesn't really matter. Some console games running natively have 150 ms of latency. The average last gen was 100 ms, now it's around 70 ms iirc. Either way, adding 20-30ms of latency to that via streaming is not a big deal. 99% of console gamers don't even know that consoles have input lag, that means they didn't even notice the ~100 ms of latency.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I dont follow the metrics where xxx bandwidth = yyy streaming content.
So a 15mb feed can get you 1080p gaming? Everyone's got to have that minimum spec from their ISP.
So a 15mb feed can get you 1080p gaming? Everyone's got to have that minimum spec from their ISP.
Drizzlehell
Banned
Runs in 32k from my smartphone, which works just by hooking it up wirelessly to micro ocular VR implant located in my skull.Runs 4k on my PC. Can even play it without internet.
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nkarafo
Member
Sure, the standards of console gaming used to be very low for a very long time. But now, with all the push for things like VRR and performance/60/120fps modes, console gamers are waking up. Shitting on input lag standards while everything else gets better is going to be a noticeable step back even for them.
It really isn't. I've been playing games via GeForce Now's 3080 tier subscription and getting on par or better graphical performance than PS5/Series X for the past 6 months.
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You are one successful case out of 10.000 people who tries this.
Internet speed, it being widespread, lag free, etc are all things stopping streaming from becomming trully viable.
And even then it would just be one alternative, given that you would have even less ownership over your games and hardware, and with streaming you are hostage to your internet.If something happens to it, puff.Not to mention you having to pay premium to it just so you have a good enough connection to run your games.
Like I said, decades away.
JimboJones
Member
Image quality wasn't great and I could feel the input delay.
But it worked well enough but I have always had better luck with Stadia than XCloud.
But it worked well enough but I have always had better luck with Stadia than XCloud.
hemo memo
Member
I call it "America equals the world" complex. Game streaming is not viable to the majority of people to get the optimal experience. A video game subscription service with a catalogue of games to download and play directly from the hardware is the way to go. I don't think a decade is enough for the internet to improve for most countries that game streaming becomes the primary way of playing games. I would say not less than 15 years.
OneBigPuss
Member
Not on my potato internet it won't.
Trogdor1123
Member
I had the same actually. It worked much better than I expected. It’s a start I thinkKinda shot myself in the foot there
kiphalfton
Member
Streaming games will never be viable for people like me, who have Xfinity, until they get rid of data caps. So stupid and limiting.
Fat Frog
I advertised for Google Stadia
Xfinity ?
kiphalfton
Member
They're an iternet provider. They have a 1.25TB data cap last time I checked. They also offer am unlimited data plan add-on, which I think is $30/month more.
Fat Frog
I advertised for Google Stadia
Fucking data cap, fucking america
purvispisgah
Member
Gandih42
Member
My first time playing a game via streaming, and I'm honestly quite impressed.
It's pretty cool to load up a game like this via your browser and just start playing. But even though it is definitely playable, I'd say the input latency is still fairly noticeable. Not like that GIF of the guy jumping, but it feels more sluggish than it should. And there was some weird artifacting going on with the visual quality.
I've still got no interest in game streaming but this is a neat application of it. I've been keen on Village for a while, now I'm even more hooked. Game seems super fun, especially without the sluggish feeling and with cleaner visuals.
It's pretty cool to load up a game like this via your browser and just start playing. But even though it is definitely playable, I'd say the input latency is still fairly noticeable. Not like that GIF of the guy jumping, but it feels more sluggish than it should. And there was some weird artifacting going on with the visual quality.
I've still got no interest in game streaming but this is a neat application of it. I've been keen on Village for a while, now I'm even more hooked. Game seems super fun, especially without the sluggish feeling and with cleaner visuals.
emivita
Member
So, I tried it on a shitty laptop, a stable and fast connection and the game runs like shit not because of the connection, but because of the shitty laptop (a 2009 dual core). In fact, the game runs better (but with huge latency) on a 2020 laptop I have. So yeah, it looks like you can't play Stadia games on a shitty hardware.
Bernd Lauert
Banned
Yep, that's one caveat with streaming, you still need at least some processing power in your machine otherwise it won't work.
sertopico
Member
I tried this demo yesterday out of curiosity. It doesn't run on Firefox throwing an error, but it runs fine on Chromium-based browsers.
On my 1440p monitor it looked horrible, there are streaming artifacts, blacks are crushed, it's blurry as hell and full of jaggies. No wonder since it is streaming a game that already has a shitty TAA implementation. The maximum resolution is also locked at 1080p. Input lag was also pretty bad, sometimes the character just stood still and I had to press the keys more than once in order to get a response. All in all:
The streaming service is still not up to the task.
It might be good for those who have smaller screens, assuming that there are no input issues.
On my 1440p monitor it looked horrible, there are streaming artifacts, blacks are crushed, it's blurry as hell and full of jaggies. No wonder since it is streaming a game that already has a shitty TAA implementation. The maximum resolution is also locked at 1080p. Input lag was also pretty bad, sometimes the character just stood still and I had to press the keys more than once in order to get a response. All in all:
The streaming service is still not up to the task.
It might be good for those who have smaller screens, assuming that there are no input issues.
Fat Frog
I advertised for Google Stadia
You need a hardware that can run a 1080p video stream (or 720 if you only have a 15MB connection).
Google will step by step enhance the compatibility with new tech.
For now i suggest you clean your 2009 PC by removing your 200 GB of Rocco Siffredi movies....
Ok but we don't all live in the same house as Digital Foundry so these results are not really indicative of the general experience. If they can find a way to isolate the latency of the encoding/decoding technologies used by these services then the comparisons are useful, but most of the latency is purely down to distance to the data centre. YMMV!Depends on the games, consoles you're comparing.
For instance, on Judgment:
PS5 60 FPS > Stadia 60FPS > PS4 30 FPS
And GFN 3080 has often better latency than PS5. Digital Foundry did an episode on it...
Fat Frog
I advertised for Google Stadia
True, results depends on many factors but even in a small town far from the Stadia datacenter, on Judgment I still have lower input lag than PS4.Google's infrastructure and 60FPS were really a game changer for me, it feels so smoooooooth compared to the 20-30FPS of the previous gen.
And like you said, if you're really too far from a google data center, then try Xcloud, Luna or GFN, if you don't live in a cabane in Alaska i guess at least one datacenter is near your house.
kiphalfton
Member
Fucking data cap, fucking america
Are you taking in refugees from America? Asking for a friend.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Bullshit region.
ParaSeoul
Member
Hes in the cloud.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
damn man, relax lol
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Fat Frog
I advertised for Google Stadia
Well, like the marvel movie star did, if you are a female refugee of (90-60-90) ukrainian descent, welcome to my house
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
That happened
