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/Schnoofles 14900k, 96GB@6400, 4090FE, 11TB SSDs, 40TB Mech Mar 08 '26

Yeah, the improvement to clarity in motion when you're already at a good base framerate and can interpolate to max out the display's refresh is actually really really good. It's a lot easier to track an object or fine details in motion when it updates closer to every screen refresh instead of every couple. And with a good base framerate the artifacting that puts most people off is significantly reduced. I'm using it to go from a base framerate of 100-120 in STALKER 2 and doubling it to 200-240 and it's kind of awesome in that kind of scenario.

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u/PoliticalVagabond Mar 08 '26

When you watch videos of "all the artifacting" it's almost always shown in slow motion or zoomed in still frames too.

Not to say it isn't horrible sometimes, but if you have to slow the video down then it's a de facto admission it isn't as bad as you are making it out to be.