Author Topic: Are there any things like Onlive out there?  (Read 686 times)

if you don't know what onlive is, it was a gaming thing that played games through Internet, not through your computers systems. Allowing you to play games on just about any computer, regardless if it has the specs to run it. All you needed was a good internet connection. Onlive has been shut down, which sucks because I really enjoyed the platform. Are there any other things like this out there?

whoa thats a genious idea. lets people with crappy computers get to enjoy playing whatver games they want.

...but not if you have stuffty Internet.
Which, by the way, is the case for most people out there.

All you needed was a good internet connection.

...but not if you have stuffty Internet.
Which, by the way, is the case for most people out there.

What would be considered minimum requirements internet wise? Is it entirely speed based or are there other obstacles?

What would be considered minimum requirements internet wise? Is it entirely speed based or are there other obstacles?
speed and latency are both important
latency is also called ping. it refers to how long it takes for a piece of data to get from one place to another, and the lower the better

I used this once or twice on internet that was average at best, and it worked fine
but no matter how good your connection is, there's gonna be some extra delay on top of everything else, so it wouldn't do so well for competitive stuff

anyway, I know there was something like this being made. and I know someone made a thread about it, either in off-topic or here. I can't remember what it was called, but it shouldn't be too hard to search. it wasn't too long ago, either

What would be considered minimum requirements internet wise? Is it entirely speed based or are there other obstacles?

Speed is required for receiving the data and a stable, low-latency connection is required for reducing input delay, stuttering, etc.

You also need at least a decent CPU to ingest the information being streamed to you, you can't stream games to literally any PC