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Not a heavy user, but I've been using Paperspace a few times for gaming. They make it really easy. They have a "template" you spawn a new instance from, or use a blank windows install. Their template is handy since it has Steam and Parsec already installed.

What they seem to be doing here is saying you don't need Parsec and can just use their browser implementation instead.

Sounds great!

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I'm assuming this works by streaming your keyboard/mouse inputs to the VM, then it runs the game and then streams high-res video and audio back to you. What's the total latency with this approach? And the required bandwidth for the video stream?

Is gaming well supported with controllers working over the air?

I’ve had good luck. The biggest hiccup was that you need to pay extra for a public IP.

Super Meat Boy is about as twitchy as I get, and the latency for that is fine (at least in the SF bay area).

Obviously, the GPU can do more than that, but I haven’t tried pushing in that direction.

You'd want to install Parsec on the server, then controllers work automatically (generally). It works pretty well (though I had to stop using Paperspace because I couldn't afford the cost).

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