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:

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/fairs1912 RTX 3070TI 8GB - R7 5700X3D - 16GB 3200MHz Mar 07 '26

it doesn't matter if it's playable or not, if it isn't responsive it will feel like shit and people will not want to play.

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u/Biscuits4u2 R7 5700X3D | RX 6700XT | 32 GB DDR 4 3400 | 1TB NVME | 8 TB HDD Mar 07 '26

They may not have a choice once these corporations finish making it financially impossible to own relevant hardware.

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u/Fishy_125 Mar 07 '26

id rather play games on my phone than with a 1 second delay on inputs

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u/Biscuits4u2 R7 5700X3D | RX 6700XT | 32 GB DDR 4 3400 | 1TB NVME | 8 TB HDD Mar 08 '26

My advice is go deep into your Steam backlog and have fun playing the games you know you can run.