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What is the latency of a setup like this? Could I play an intensive FPS and be competitve?
by dogas 11y ago
What is the latency of a setup like this? Could I play an intensive FPS and be competitve?
- daeken 11y agoFrom a pure network connectivity standpoint, you're essentially looking at a bare minimum of ~two frames of latency (about 30-40ms), ignoring additional latency added by video compression/decompression. So, probably not going to be useful for competitive FPS play, but for most games it'd be tolerable, if even noticeable.
- philtar 11y agoNo. The latency isn't just in the game like if you connect to a high ping server, there will also be some delay from when you move your mouse to when the screen changes. This is one of the reasons competitive fighting game players say never practice online. You're gaining useless muscle memory.
- callum85 11y agoClick the button on this page and it will tell you the latency to every AWS datacenter: http://www.cloudping.info/ http://www.cloudping.info/ For me (London) it looks like I could get a latency of 28ms if I hosted my rig in their Dublin datacenter, which sounds OK. (But obviously this would be on top of the ping to the multiplayer host, if you're playing online.)
- lifeformed 11y agoAlso, this would be input latency, which is much more significant of a drawback than normal in-game network latency.
- scott_karana 11y agoWell, for multiplayer, at least the EC2 machine would have a reasonable ping with the other players, it would just be display/input latency.
- comex 11y agoAccording to that site, I can't get less than 44ms with Amazon where I live... This site has a much larger number of providers: http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest-latency-for-compute-limit-10m http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest-latency-for-compute-limit-... But of course most of them don't offer GPU servers.
- Dolores12 11y agonice website! thanks :)
- halotrope 11y agoFrom my experience with a ping of 60ms to ireland games like GTA5 or Crysis2 where playable to a point where you would forget that you are streaming. I tried to play Counter Strike online but for some reason even without any professional aspirations I felt kind of handicapped. For Strategy it worked quite well though.
- valarauca1 11y agoAny latency between AWS <--> Home will become hardware input latency. Which nothing can compensate for, you just react that much slower. Furthermore your hardware input latency is variable, so you'll never be able to from muscle memory. The post suggest ~60FPS limit, which isn't competitive really at all. 120-144FPS is the standard for competitive play currently. If you encode at 144FPS, and decode at 144FPS then you already have a GPU that supports competitive play, so cloud platforms become moot.