During GDC at the AMD event, a LiquidSky employee stated that their gaming client that streams games to you will have a Linux client.
You can see the video here, at around 44 minutes the LiquidSky presenter talks about how it works and what platforms it will support and Linux is directly mentioned as being supported.
It's interesting, but to use such a service you will need a very good connection. It's a little like in-home streaming on Steam. You're essentially renting some time from their servers to do all of the rendering of the game, while you still do all the input and actual gaming.
I'm not personally too interested, but the whole idea behind it does have a lot of merit. People on low-spec devices having the ability to run top-end games. It's a nice idea, so hopefully it works well.
I've requested Beta access to one day get a report on it and when doing so, I needed to pick a server close to me. Thankfully, it seems they have servers spread across the world, so it's not like it will be streaming a game half-way across the world.
It seems their service will be powered by AMD's Vega GPUs and they will have a free account with adverts, if you don't want to pay monthly for it. It's currently in Beta, but it seems they are a little overwhelmed with requests (1.4 million they claim testing right now) so it might be some time before I can check it out.
I wouldn't be surprised if a service like this eventually becomes a big hit. We've seen music, film and TV streaming (all of which even I pay for) for a monthly payment on-demand, so why not gaming? You could argue "but then you don't own it", but then we go down the rabbit hole of - if you ever really own the software you buy and so on. That's an argument for another day I think.
Thanks for letting me know Michał. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
You can see the video here, at around 44 minutes the LiquidSky presenter talks about how it works and what platforms it will support and Linux is directly mentioned as being supported.
It's interesting, but to use such a service you will need a very good connection. It's a little like in-home streaming on Steam. You're essentially renting some time from their servers to do all of the rendering of the game, while you still do all the input and actual gaming.
I'm not personally too interested, but the whole idea behind it does have a lot of merit. People on low-spec devices having the ability to run top-end games. It's a nice idea, so hopefully it works well.
I've requested Beta access to one day get a report on it and when doing so, I needed to pick a server close to me. Thankfully, it seems they have servers spread across the world, so it's not like it will be streaming a game half-way across the world.
It seems their service will be powered by AMD's Vega GPUs and they will have a free account with adverts, if you don't want to pay monthly for it. It's currently in Beta, but it seems they are a little overwhelmed with requests (1.4 million they claim testing right now) so it might be some time before I can check it out.
I wouldn't be surprised if a service like this eventually becomes a big hit. We've seen music, film and TV streaming (all of which even I pay for) for a monthly payment on-demand, so why not gaming? You could argue "but then you don't own it", but then we go down the rabbit hole of - if you ever really own the software you buy and so on. That's an argument for another day I think.
Thanks for letting me know Michał. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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In France, we have Shadow : https://shadow.tech/
But it is not a linux machine. More precisely, it's linux servers with windows machines in docks.
It seems to run greatly with a good internet connection (mostly fiber). Some e-sport teams runs with Shadow.
But it is not a linux machine. More precisely, it's linux servers with windows machines in docks.
It seems to run greatly with a good internet connection (mostly fiber). Some e-sport teams runs with Shadow.
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i wonder if this will increase the marketshare of windows on the cloud, or if more games will be ported to linux since linux is better on the server market anyway....
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Quoting: iiariI've been using LiquidSky on Linux and paying for it, both on my Chromebooks via Linux (!!) and via my Mint-on-Steam-Machine rig. It's basically a Wine wrapper to the PC client, but I've found it to be wonderful. I have fast in home internet (90-135 Mbps) and it's been butter smooth playing titles at 1080p at full details with no discernible lag.What does it cost? I see a $9.99 monthly option, which looks reasonable to me, but then there's mention of credits. I can't seem to find a clear answer as to whether you would still need to buy credits even if on a monthly subscription.
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