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Dosent really count as it is not rendering on your machine... ofc its good there.
by Unfrozen0688 3y ago
Dosent really count as it is not rendering on your machine... ofc its good there.
- solardev 3y agoSo? That's even better. Doesn't use my battery life or create noise & heat. Netflix isn't run on my machine either.
- smolder 3y agoIt just uses natural resources to outfit and power data center stuff to create heat and noise somewhere further away. Netflix... is fairly efficient, though being on-demand, perhaps much less so than broadcast TV.
- solardev 3y agoYes, but better that, in a shared environment with center-wide cooling and such, then each individual household needing to do that on their own. Also way fewer cards needed this way, with users being able to share cards through the day instead of each needing their own. Basically mainframes all over again :)
- Chaosvex 3y ago> Yes, but better that, in a shared environment with center-wide cooling and such, then each individual household needing to do that on their own. I don't think this actually tracks, unless the heat is actually being put to use. You don't need HVACs when you have the machines distributed.
- solardev 3y agoWhy don't you need distributed HVAC? A gaming desktop can use a kilowatt of power, which is what a small space heater might put out. It often will make the room uncomfortably hot. (Anecdotally, this is part of why I switched to Geforce Now, myself. My apartment got incredibly uncomfortable from the heat. It's an older unit with no air conditioning.) In data centers, sometimes (not always, and perhaps not often?) the heat can be more efficiently handled through central heat exchangers, more efficient commercial HVACs, etc.
- Chaosvex 3y agoThe vast majority of machines are not using a kilowatt and the vast majority of users are not running anything to deal with the heat. You're an outlier here.
- smolder 3y agoI should have been more clear in retrospect. There are definitely efficiency advantages to be had from moving things to the cloud, and I'm not against people moving workloads to data centers in general. I meant to point out that moving this particular workload to a data center sort of sweeps it under the rug that Cities: Skylines 2 itself is unacceptably resource-hungry for what it is. It should neither be the home users problem nor nvidias problem that C:S2 was so poorly optimized.
- solardev 3y agoOh, yes, absolutely agreed. CS:2 is horribly optimized... no argument there. I found the article illuminating and don't disagree with any of its findings. Was just trying to offer the GP a way to play the game that actually works :) (Yes, only by inefficiently throwing RTX 4080 power at it, and even then still struggling.)
- Unfrozen0688 3y agoSure, but then it does not have any relevance to the article.
- solardev 3y agoWasn't supposed to challenge anything in the article. Just an option for those who are struggling to play it on their current hardware. Even with GFN it's laggy and stutters. Totally agree with the article.
- jodrellblank 3y agoI wasn't claimed to be relevant to the article, it was a reply to "it's a big bummer that I can't give this one a go" with a suggestion of how they could play it.