Video of OnLive running on laptop, 'microconsole,' and iPad

[Solid-Stark]

famousringo said:

Solid-Stark said:

Can someone explain Onlive to me clearly cuz im confused.

The games are rendered on a server then is sent to your device am i correct? then does that mean you dont need a powerful computer to play such games, if so are game's resolutions lowered or do graphics suffer(according to people)? and can Onlive work on any device such as phones too or just computers OS? 

You pretty much have it. A big server cluster does all the heavy lifting and streams A/V to a client device, while the client device returns input from the player. Their minimum requirements for PC are to have a dual-core processor, with no GPU requirement at all.

The service currently supports 720p, and needs better network bandwidth before it can support 1080p. A lot of HD console games have a native resolution of 720p or less, so it wouldn't really be a downgrade compared to most HD games. The service provides that resolution at 60fps, which is better than most console games, but due to network inconsistencies it can drop as low as 20fps. Most HD console games are able to provide a more consistent framerate.

Because the service uses high-performance data clusters, the graphical performance pushing those pixels and frames can be much, much higher than console or PC could do, and so it could offer effects that home gaming systems can't match, but whether that's cost effective for OnLive to offer that much performance is another question.

And for your final question, OnLive should be able to work on any device with fast enough network and CPU to decode the stream. The video demonstrates the service working on an iPad, though it seemed to be losing a lot of frames compared to the laptop. He tried to demo the service on an iPhone, but couldn't get it to launch, so OnLive clearly hopes to offer the service on tablets and smartphones in the future.

ahh i see, not a bad piece of tech. thanks.