Honest opinion on Shadow.tech

Hedrak · September 26, 2018

Hello guys, could you please give me your honest opinion on Shadow.tech? I really like the concept but I don't know how powerful the config they propose is. Will it be able to run every game in high settings for example... I only play online games and I'm worried about the latency. My internet speed shouldn't be an issue I actually have 800Mb/s up and 500Mb/s down. I like the idea that I'm going to have to upgrade my PC every 2 to 3 years to keep it up. The price is very affordable. Anyway could you give me your opinion or you experience with shadow.tech??

voiha · September 26, 2018

I don't have experience with live game stream solutions like this one, I reckon Nvidia wanted to do this/did this.
I'm not a fan of it honestly, you will always have higher latency streaming rather than running it on your own PC. It's 29Euro a month if you get the one year program which is 348 euros yearly, you can buy used GPU and put it into your current PC for boost in performance with that money.

Hedrak · September 27, 2018

18 hours ago, voiha said:

I don't have experience with live game stream solutions like this one, I reckon Nvidia wanted to do this/did this.
I'm not a fan of it honestly, you will always have higher latency streaming rather than running it on your own PC. It's 29Euro a month if you get the one year program which is 348 euros yearly, you can buy used GPU and put it into your current PC for boost in performance with that money.

Yeah but I need to upgrade my CPU and GPU + I want to move from AMD to intel so I will need to change my motherboard... At the end of the day I will have a buy a new PC. That's why the monthly price is very interesting. I will not have to worry about upgrading again and to think if my config can run the game because I know it will.

Alex Atkin UK · September 28, 2018

But likewise you will have spent all that money and have nothing to show for it.

If in a few years time they close or have removed the game you want, you will STILL have to a build a PC and buy the game, assuming the publisher of the game haven't gone under and then you can't even buy it.

So it really depends on your gaming habits. If you only care about playing the latest games and never plan to go back, then maybe its okay. But personally, I don't like the idea of spending money and not owning the game. Plus even with Steam in-home streaming I can clearly see the difference in picture quality and latency compared to straight over HDMI, and that's a much more ideal circumstance than streaming over the Internet.