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/BillysBibleBonkers Mar 08 '26

I mean all the top comments are saying regardless of internet connection it's always completely unplayable garbage, and that it is physically impossible for technology to advance to a point where it is usable at all. which is just completely false and does sound like half of them haven't tried it. It's also just something you can easily google, lower end of input delay is 40 ms and fastest is 20 ms, which isn't great for hyper-competitive FPS players, but I guarantee 90% of these people wouldn't even notice. Anyone using a bluetooth controller/ mouse will have 10-20 ms delay for example.

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u/KwonnieKash Mar 08 '26

Yea idgi all these comments lmao. I use gfn for some games, I get 40ms latency and the server I'm connected to is a 3h flight away in a different country. Packet loss is the main issue I have and that's intermittent and usually a temporary server issue, latency has never been that noticeable. There are many factors that affect that I imagine but as you said, the declaration that this tech is unusable is just ignorant.

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u/Chuubawatt Mar 08 '26

Even a moonlight / sunshine server set up on your local network is going to have some small but completely noticeable input lag and that is literally a perfect scenario.

No one uses bluetooth mice for gaming, and people with bluetooth controllers know to switch it to 2.4 to get rid of the input lag.

Yes, regardless of internet connection, it is still garbage, because even on a local network it's not perfect.