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Jup. Tried DIY cloudgaming a few times, almost signed up for shadow/Google, but then just bought a 200$ card and now I'm able to play all games, from any store I want, for next 2-3 years.

In case of AWS/cloud it's not just gaming but also always thinking about aws/technical stuff..

If you can afford to buy all games on steam and have 1gig internet - go ahead and use a cloudgaming service. But you'll see the video compression and you won't be able to play the great game you once bought at humblebundle.

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I think the biggest thing that stadia is trying to enable is being able to play all games on non-windows systems. You could play a desktop game on your android phone or even on your Chromebook.

I run a linux desktop with windows installed as a kvm guest with GPU passthrough which gives near bare metal performance.

Do you have a link to a guide for this or more info? This is really interesting.

My main desktop is dual booted but I never really boot into Linux since I often game, although I really prefer Linux interface+desktop. If Windows could be a kvm guest and GPU passthrough worked I would def go with that option.

edit: I found this which seems to give a good overview but I'm still curious if you have any tips/hacks for getting it working.

It’s kind of difficult to setup but you will learn a lot of you don’t have much virt experience. I recommend trying to share as little as possible. Pass through a whole pcie usb hub to guest instead if separate devices. Buy a second pcie NIC. Use a cheap AMD card for the host (better for linux) and NVIDIA for your guest. Don’t try to share your motherboard audio just use the passed through cards audio out of HDMI and display port. Get an AB switch to change which machine your KB/M is on instead of software. Basically only share your processor and memory. I have linux on a m2 nvme and my guest has a big ssd all to itself.

And the hoops you had to jump through to do that is one validation of why products like stadia might be in demand.

The whole point of doing that is to not have to run dual boot or have Windows on your bare metal. Do you think someone who cares about that wants to give Google absolute power over their gaming?

Building a rig and just putting Windows 10 on it and installing steam takes about an hour if you have done it before and about 6 hours if you haven’t and have a tutorial. You could just also buy a prebuilt rig for 10 percent more.

I have an eGPU and I find Geforce Now to be more convenient when I want to stream to TV, and when I don't want to reboot into Windows which is often. It's actually so convenient I often wonder if I could just use a Shield TV for PC gaming, the only downside is several of my favorite games are not yet playable on Geforce Now.

I have a similar setup and use SteamLink to stream to my shield for a lot of games. Works a treat for most of my games which are on Steam anyway.

What card?

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