Nimos
Well-Known Member
Those that like playing games have probably heard about cloud gaming. Initially I was very fond of it, having a dinosaur computer (8-9 years old) so performance have always been an issue for me when it comes to games.
For everything else I use it for, mostly graphic works, surfing the net etc. its doing rather well in terms of what I need. So not being all to keen on buying a new computer, if I don't really have to. I thought that cloud gaming was the perfect solution as I would not have to think about hardware anymore.
However a month ago or so, I bought a new graphic card, not an expensive one roughly 280$ or so and threw that in my computer. And as it is now, I can pretty much play all games I have tried so far on ultra with no issues.
The reason obviously being that most modern 3d games, will use the GPU rather than the CPU. Since I haven't upgraded my computer much in those 8-9 years. I was really surprised that simply changing the graphic card had such a huge impact, as I assumed that it would help slightly given the age of the rest of the computer.
However since that at least in my opinion is a very small investment over such a long period of time, I kind of changed my view on cloud gaming, why should I care to buy a subscription, when my own computer can run the games just fine.
Have anyone else given this any thoughts?
(Ps. Want to add, that I buy computers based on my graphic works, games etc. are just secondary. Which means that I am considering buying a Ryzen 9 for that reason only, but even then Im a bit in a dark zone, because it seems that GPU rendering is outperforming CPU rendering as well. And buying a Ryzen would require a lot more upgrades as well, which would obviously not be as cheap as simply buying a graphic card.... but anyway that is just me thinking out loud )
For everything else I use it for, mostly graphic works, surfing the net etc. its doing rather well in terms of what I need. So not being all to keen on buying a new computer, if I don't really have to. I thought that cloud gaming was the perfect solution as I would not have to think about hardware anymore.
However a month ago or so, I bought a new graphic card, not an expensive one roughly 280$ or so and threw that in my computer. And as it is now, I can pretty much play all games I have tried so far on ultra with no issues.
The reason obviously being that most modern 3d games, will use the GPU rather than the CPU. Since I haven't upgraded my computer much in those 8-9 years. I was really surprised that simply changing the graphic card had such a huge impact, as I assumed that it would help slightly given the age of the rest of the computer.
However since that at least in my opinion is a very small investment over such a long period of time, I kind of changed my view on cloud gaming, why should I care to buy a subscription, when my own computer can run the games just fine.
Have anyone else given this any thoughts?
(Ps. Want to add, that I buy computers based on my graphic works, games etc. are just secondary. Which means that I am considering buying a Ryzen 9 for that reason only, but even then Im a bit in a dark zone, because it seems that GPU rendering is outperforming CPU rendering as well. And buying a Ryzen would require a lot more upgrades as well, which would obviously not be as cheap as simply buying a graphic card.... but anyway that is just me thinking out loud )