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Looks quite interesting. I could really use a Windows box that I could use for a few games while I'm isolated not at home with only my Macbook Pro.
by tone 6y ago
Looks quite interesting. I could really use a Windows box that I could use for a few games while I'm isolated not at home with only my Macbook Pro.
- dudul 6y agoWhy use this over GeForce Now? Really curious, I don't see a lot of advantages.
- al_chemist 6y agoPaperspace supports* Linux client, GeForce Now does not. * allegedly. Tried to set up Paperspace and Parsec without result.
- dudul 6y agoThe comment I replied to mentioned a MBP, not a linux machine.
- naravara 6y agoIf your use case is gaming, does Linux support matter much? If anything I would think this would be for someone who has a Linux setup but wants to access games that aren't available.
- pmoriarty 6y ago"If your use case is gaming, does Linux support matter much?" It really depends on the game. For instance, Factorio, which is enormously popular on HN, has a perfectly functioning Linux version. Many other games do too, and some games even perform better on Linux than on Windows, not to mention having a better user experience on Linux (especially if you are technical and know what you're doing). I have an old Linux laptop, and Factorio performs well enough in single player, but I run in to serious performance issues on multiplayer. It's be nice to be able to run this Linux game on a more performant Linux machine, without shelling out the $$$ for a new gaming rig. Further, I'd like to avoid Windows as much as possible, where it can be avoided.
- draebek 6y agoI hear that, after it left beta, the number of games that you can play on GeForce NOW is greatly reduced. I have read that you can no longer play arbitrary games from your Steam library (like you could in beta), and furthermore, a few major publishers have pulled their games from the service. So the advantage of Paperspace would be that you can play many more games than you can on GeForce NOW.
- mjayhn 6y agoI don't know how to show you an actual list compared to my Steam library but I only know a handful of games that have been removed (The Longest Dark was big drama a few weeks ago) but I'm sitting here testing a bunch of my most popular games (Bannerlord, DOS2, POE2, Destiny 2, LOL, Space Engineers, etc) and I haven't hit a game yet that I can't play. Some publishers have been very anti-competitor regarding it and taken down their entire libraries but there is still a ton to play.
- jplayer01 6y agoOn the flip side, none of the games I play are available on GFN. It's incredibly frustrating. I've moved on to Shadow where I'm not subject to the arbitrary whims of publishers and developers. I can install any game that I own and nobody can do anything about it.
- jventura 6y agoCan't you use VirtualBox or something like that?
- Jiger104 6y agoShadow.tech I have had good experiences with. It does take a while to go from sign-up to them actually spinning up a machine for you but the latency is extremely good for cloud gaming.
- tone 6y agoLooks good but pre-order only? How have you been using it?