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    Want to play Crysis on a netbook? BTW, I am NOT kidding.

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by HorrorofSpamylon, Mar 24, 2009.

  1. HorrorofSpamylon

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    Yeah someone posted this already its pretty sweet too i just hope everything works out it looks to good to be true.
     
    Red_Dragon, Mar 24, 2009
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  3. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    Playing video games through an RDP connect? Great!
    /sarcasm.

    This will kill your gaming experience because of latencies.
     
    Hep!, Mar 24, 2009
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    It is an interesting concept, except like many commenter pointed out in the article, it will be impossible to enjoy multiplier games. It is however good for single player games like Crysis, Far Cry 2, and Fallout 3 and what not.
     
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  5. HorrorofSpamylon

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    Yeah, and I will wait those commenters to eat their words.
     
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    Yeah, read the part about their compression tech?
     
    HorrorofSpamylon, Mar 24, 2009
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    pretty old news. people could have just used streammygame.com. have main pc do all the work and stream it to your netbook. this actually has less lag then thier implementation. either way its an old concept
     
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  9. Hep!

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    Yeah, I did.
    Still going to be a latency. You can compress data all you want to drive down bandwidth issues, but you can't do anything about latency. So you play an online game and your ping is 100 average? Great, now when you use this service, there will be a 100ms delay just to move your character.
     
    Hep!, Mar 24, 2009
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    Nice in theory and might work out in some hot spots, but doesn't seem to have the potential to be something huge with all the different isps over the world and latency issues. Sounds awesome, but I am not holding my breath.
     
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    I'd be shocked if they can make it work over the connections they claim. 1.5Mbps is barely enough to play games online when they're on your computer, much less having every single little bit of data flowing across it.
     
    CA36GTP, Mar 24, 2009
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    Not going to happen. Nobody will kill the GPU market.
     
    eleron911, Mar 24, 2009
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    too good to be true but i have hopes
     
    pkim1230, Mar 24, 2009
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    this probably wont happen anytime soon, at least in north america where the ISP's generally suck and want to implement bandwidth caps
     
    darrickmartin, Mar 24, 2009
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