Onlive

[superslayer]

Just recently got back into onlive. My username is aceofbase17. For some weird reason, I lost 2 games I bought a long time ago. And recently bought that lord of the rings game: war in the north game. anyone wanna play multiplayer with me?

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[Pouch]

Isn't Onlive JUST like Steam?

[stuntman021]

Isn't Onlive JUST like Steam?

no, actually. the way onlive works is that they have servers at a physical location that render the game at all highest settings, and you're essentially watching a stream of it running the game. it takes the mouse movement/button presses/etc from your computer, sends it to the server, and then the server replicates the same mouse movement/button press/etc. this means you can play crysis with a stuffty netbook from 2005. it's a great technology, but the main problem i have with it is that you can't turn off mouse acceleration in some games and that makes it unplayable for me

[Regulith]

no, actually. the way onlive works is that they have servers at a physical location that render the game at all highest settings, and you're essentially watching a stream of it running the game. it takes the mouse movement/button presses/etc from your computer, sends it to the server, and then the server replicates the same mouse movement/button press/etc. this means you can play crysis with a stuffty netbook from 2005.

That's actually pretty neat. I wish I could do that with some of the games I've bought on Steam that don't run as well as I thought they would.

[superslayer]

That's actually pretty neat. I wish I could do that with some of the games I've bought on Steam that don't run as well as I thought they would.

There are a lot of games on onlive. Like, a lot. in the play pack alone there is 100+, and that's not retail. There is everything from Fear 3 multiplayer, to homefront, to Assassin's creed: brotherhood

[Primus]

no, actually. the way onlive works is that they have servers at a physical location that render the game at all highest settings, and you're essentially watching a stream of it running the game. it takes the mouse movement/button presses/etc from your computer, sends it to the server, and then the server replicates the same mouse movement/button press/etc. this means you can play crysis with a stuffty netbook from 2005. it's a great technology, but the main problem i have with it is that you can't turn off mouse acceleration in some games and that makes it unplayable for me

Actually, streaming the game means that if you have bad internet you can't see anything.