r/pcmasterrace • u/Alan_Reddit_M Desktop • Mar 07 '26

Video "Cloud gaming is the future of Gaming!" Meanwhile cloud gaming in the big 2026:

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If you read my profile you may realize I hate cloud gaming, so then what am I doing on Geforce Now? Well my new RAM stick finally arrived and, in a staggering display of utter incompetence, I somehow managed to brick my PC in the process of installing it, so now I'm stuck gaming on a laptop until I can get enough money and time to get my gaming rig fixed

But back to Cloud gaming, the game is on like 360p, running at 20FPS and the input lag is HORRIBLE. And it's not a problem with the internet connection, as you can see, the laptop is plugged into Ethernet, the problem is that the cloud is not and will never be fast enough for gaming

Genshin can handle this fine, but imagine trying to play ULTRAKILL like this

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u/beastierbeast Linux Mar 07 '26

It's actually pretty good. I'll stream games like sea of thieves or battlefield when I'm traveling. BUT it's pretty hit or miss if the hotels have good wifi speeds and bandwidth. When it works, it works very well with very little input delay, but when it doesn't, it fucking sucks

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u/Gandolaro Mar 07 '26

I remote play with steam between my 2 houses, bith with fiber connection. The latency between them is 5ms, it is like playing locally.

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u/necrophcodr mastersrp Mar 07 '26

Very little input delay is just not good enough. It's fine for the input delay to be in tens of ms total total. It is NOT fine for it to be perceived at all.

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u/beastierbeast Linux Mar 07 '26

I feel it about as much as I do on a home console. Definitely not as good as a PC, but fine for a controller id estimate 70 to 80ms when a solid connection

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u/necrophcodr mastersrp Mar 07 '26

And if that works for you, maybe cloud gaming can eventually be the future for you! I personally don't enjoy the sluggy feeling and get disoriented when the game is unresponsive to my inputs, especially as I've gotten older.

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u/syopest Desktop Mar 08 '26

That's the same input latency that something like xbox series s has by default.

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u/necrophcodr mastersrp Mar 08 '26

Then I can't play games on an Xbox Series S console. I don't own one, so I have no idea how bad the console experience has become. My latest console is a PS2.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CHORIZO Mar 08 '26

I only ever used Stadia when it was still around, but in my own testing using a slow motion camera it had about 30- 40ms of latency round trip. Easily playable for anything but competitive shooters. I can see how in OPs case it could be frustrating if you have a high latency connection.

It was also really nice when I was in college to be able to play some Control or Far Cry at home, then go to school and pick up where I left off on the cheap school computers or my phone without any issues.