StreamMyGame New Supports Linux

This is for games what GoogleDocs is for office apps.

The business model: You set up a server farm with all the latest and greatest games. You get a license that lets the game producer participate on the revenues to mitigate the costs. You give away the client for free.

Then you rent the games for a small fee per month.

And suddenly, a user does not need a strong PC anymore to play the latest and greatest. Nor does he need Vista or other jokes. You pay lets say 5 Euro a month and you can play all the games you ever wanted, even on Linux or your PSP or even the Asus EEE.

Folks, that rocks!

I hear Google calling their investment bankers....

(No, I am not involved in this project - but I really would like to be... )

Call me a cynic (hell, you can call me Susan if you want), but I can't imagine this even working well on a LAN, let alone the Internet.

A good solid wired LAN I can see, I have done something similar before when I was playing Neverwinter Nights. However it was to the exclusion of all other network traffic and the situation was not what one would call ideal.

The biggest drawback to this that they would have had to overcome is video bandwidth as I cant see them network loading a remote version of a game, a fully patched version of WoW for example weighs in at a hefty 4+ Gig. It will be interesting to see where this goes, If it does what it says it does I may well have to throw together a more powerful server, we'll see in time I guess.

The problem isn't bandwidth (See FreeNX as proof that fast screen transfer is possible) but one of response time. Gamers buy high-precision laser mouses instead of infrared for that tiny bit extra precision. They get anal when their monitor only has a 4ms instead of 2ms response time. No way that they're going to settle for the response time that goes in the tens and hundreds of milliseconds that you get with remote viewing.

I agree with Susan.

Interesting. Guess I'll have to register on the site and give it a try between windows on my work laptop and my linux desktop. See if those windows games are playable...

techiem2 never returns.

Such was the fate of techiem1....

lol. Looks like it's gonna take a little work to get the linux client working.

Mark, please share your experiences with us. You've been gaming for at least three consecutive days now!

Sorry, been busy. Hopefully I'll have a chance to mess with it tonight. I get an error running the client from the console, but that might be normal (haven't seen anything on the site about it). Apparently I need to associate the client with firefox then test it with a game...

Ok, I had to modify the config file to specify a font to use. Haven't got it actually working yet (client connects but never shows the video from the game)...course the fact that I don't really have much from the official supported games list doesn't help....