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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[-] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

Lots of games do lag compensation. What you’re trying to do is get under their lag compensation wire, where they’ll do what’s possible to keep everything fair for everyone and you.

Someone already said to shoot for Singapore remote servers. That’s a good start. Make sure you have qsv or your computers equivalent of it to decode video quickly. The decoding time adds to your input lag because you can’t see the stream until it gets decoded for you.

Someone already said to look into the Chinese bizarro mobo/cpu combos built off of excess chips, prototypes and factory seconds. Bear in mind that support for these is nonexistent unless you read Chinese and sparse at best there. Bear in mind that a lot of the time the CPUs are soldered to the board so you can’t upgrade and have to be a little more careful when installing a heatsink. If you’ve been in the game long enough to pull a bare motherboard out of a dumpster and fiddle around with it until it works then the aliexpress computer pipeline might be a good one for you.

Check out the Chinese video cards too.

I have an alternative set of solutions though, and they’ve worked well so far:

Turn down the resolution. It makes a huge difference. Turn down the texture quality and post processing.

Alternately, stop playing new games. They’re so bad.

If you don’t want to turn down the music or stop listening to it, give the intel b series a look. They’re competent at 1440 and cost a fraction of what nvidia cards cost.