How significant are speed of light limitations in streaming from a remote box? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Comrades, liberals, and the unaligned misers lend me your eyes.

Computer gaming is increasingly unaffordable, in Australia second hand previous gen GPUs are like a million billion dollars. Games increasingly look like dogshit due to stochastic rendering methods and reliance on advanced lighting methods that require rendering at high resolutions for good performance.

Games are also skyrocketing in price, along with dark patterns becoming ubiquitous. The age of making a good system for 1k aud once every 8 years or so is over. Consequently I am wondering about the economics of a seedbox + renting a high performance server and streaming video games to a cheap minipc that is connected to my TV.

Unfortunately in Australia compute is expensive as hell, and we are far away from places with cheap compute. To the point where light speed limitations means rtts of like 200-300 ms

I'm curious if anyone has experience in similar conditions, either combining a seedbox and high performance computer, or having both and spinning up the HPC when you want to waste some time.

How has it worked out? what genres work and what don't? has it been cost effective?

If this is stretching the limits of relating to piracy removal won't offend me. This seems the most relevant, but it is more into hardware and using pirated software (since shit is unaffordable) than piracy directly.

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[-] DaGeek247@fedia.io 7 points 6 days ago

Counterpoint; it required gigabit internet and still had noticable delay to my eyes. It also had compression artifacts as well as low-medium graphics settings. It also hitched semi-regularly for no apparent reason.

All the above meant that stadia was only good for people with the money to spend on it and located in an area with fast internet and didn't play any FPSes. It was too many requirements to be a popular thing, kinda like VR is.

It also suffered from the "games get removed straight from my library" problem. They also couldn't support every game, or even the bare minimum if most popular right now, simply because they had to make sure it's supported on their backend.

It should have stuck around, but I don't think it would be a big thing until much later when internet is actually decent in most places, instead of a very select few.