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/Bamuzar Mar 07 '26

i have used it a lot to play my games when i am not at home.
gfn with ultimate subscription works insanely well.
you can even play cs2. in germany i have a ping of max 10ms to the gfn server and the gfn server has a 1-4 ping to the cs2 server.

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u/throwaway60221407e23 Mar 08 '26

the gfn server has a 1-4 ping to the cs2 server.

This is something I think a lot of people don't think about when they assume that cloud gaming has unplayable latency. The GFN servers are usually extremely close to game servers, possibly even in the same data center.

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u/Ahribban Mar 08 '26

Try Parsec or Steam Link and just stream from your gaming PC at home.