| HoloDust said: Yeah, I have 2Gbps fiber, and I'm relatively near to closest GeForce NOW server, so neither latency nor bandwidth (which can be really high for quality image) are issue. That said, nothing will beat local hardware when it comes to either, but I find that it's nice to have an option that works, if I ever need one for whatever reason. |
Yeah the appeal is certainly there. Especially with games like FS2024 where you're streaming 50 to 150 mbps of photogrammetry data over detailed cities from the server anyway. Streaming the whole game would be more efficient!
But latency remains an issue. I have avg 300 mbps bandwidth, plenty, and the county is in the process of upgrading our neighborhood to fiber to the home. Yet physics remain the same, distance and hops to the nearest data center are the bottleneck.
Well it should get better, I just checked, Saturday afternoon I only get 61 mbps down, 77 mbps up, 30ms idle ping, 292ms download latency, 167ms upload latency. That's to the nearest server (32km away) still in rural Ontario.
So bandwidth is hardly enough for game streaming at peak times while the combined up and download latency would be atrocious to play with and that's just to the nearest server. The nearest MS data center is 100km in the opposite direction. (well proposed, not build yet, maybe never the way things are going ugh)
