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Have you ever tried Paperspace (https://paperspace.com https://paperspace.com)? I've spent many hours gaming using their Windows offerings, although always str

Have you ever tried Paperspace (https://paperspace.com https://paperspace.com)? I've spent many hours gaming using their Windows offerings, although always strategy games so the latency hasn't been noticeable. I'm not sure how well it would work for FPS (probably reasonably, to be honest). They have a large number of general computing/graphics-specific machines you can spin up, and you can either pay per hour or per month. I've also started to get into Blender more, so I'll probably use one of those machines to render complex scenes instead of using my MacBook Pro. Same for machine learning tasks.

BiteCode_dev 5y ago
I haven't, thanks you for bringing it to my attention. Is your machine state persistent between connections ? EDIT: well, I tried to join and the signup ask me for my phone number. I already disliked that, but tried anyway. Every time I tried to setup a machine, the site answered: "This machine type has not been approved for this account yet. Tell us a bit more about your use case and we will prioritize your request. A member of our support team will approve your request shortly". Yeah, my request is that I'm a paying customer, I don't want to justify myself for the privilege of paying for their service, thank you very much. So, no, I don't think I will try paperspace.
- davidbarker 5y ago
  Sorry to hear about your frustrating experience with them. I think they ask about the use case to avoid things like crypto mining and such. I've typically just responded with "graphics rendering" or "gaming" and I get approved within an hour. To answer your earlier question: yes, the machine state persists. I think I pay $5 per machine per 50GB drive space per month. So it works out around $5 per month, plus the hourly cost of the machine. I hope you're able to persist and try them out. I've been very impressed when I've needed to use it.

BiteCode_dev 5y ago

I haven't, thanks you for bringing it to my attention. Is your machine state persistent between connections ? EDIT: well, I tried to join and the signup ask me for my phone number. I already disliked that, but tried anyway. Every time I tried to setup a machine, the site answered: "This machine type has not been approved for this account yet. Tell us a bit more about your use case and we will prioritize your request. A member of our support team will approve your request shortly". Yeah, my request is that I'm a paying customer, I don't want to justify myself for the privilege of paying for their service, thank you very much. So, no, I don't think I will try paperspace.

davidbarker 5y ago
Sorry to hear about your frustrating experience with them. I think they ask about the use case to avoid things like crypto mining and such. I've typically just responded with "graphics rendering" or "gaming" and I get approved within an hour. To answer your earlier question: yes, the machine state persists. I think I pay $5 per machine per 50GB drive space per month. So it works out around $5 per month, plus the hourly cost of the machine. I hope you're able to persist and try them out. I've been very impressed when I've needed to use it.