Remote Streaming Face-Off! Parsec vs Pro & Gaming Services: Image Quality, Latency Tests [Sponsored]
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- Content sponsored by Parsec. In a deep and wide-ranging analysis, Digital Foundry has been commissioned by Parsec to independently test remote streaming services for image quality in both 4:2:0 and 4:4:4 modes and of course, latency across a range of applications. Both remote working professional solutions and gaming-focused streaming services are stacked up here in a deep dive test, some months in the making!
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This is probably the best and most impartial sponsored video I've seen. Great analysis 👍
Imagine your product being so good you sponsor a video where it's compared with everything else
The problem is, at least with my connection speed (42mbps upload), Moonlight is WAY better than parsec. Moonlight is near perfect when parsec has worst latency, worst picture quality and is stuttering at nearly every frame.
@@MrKadjit even on my home gigabit network parsec is lagging
We greatly appreciate you all for taking the time to not only create this, but complete the testing as a whole ❤
We also appreciate all of you in these here comments for your kind words. We're nothin' without ya!
I've used parsec and it works good but to be honest moonlight would have won if it wasn't sponcered
I love you guys at Parsec! You are amazing
hey, are there any plans for linux support for hosting.
Parsec? never heard of it but now I know.
Pure magic
My favorite thing about Parsec and Steam Remote Play is to play fighting games that don't have rollback netcode or any built in online like emulated console games like the older Dragon Ball fighters with friends (both these options aren't as good as a well implemented version of rollback netcode but it is passable).
Which is better, Parsec or Steam Remote Play Together? I'm planning to play some fighting games with friends and I want to know which applications offer the best experience.
@@patricktrieu3913 I'd say Parsec since it'll work for any fighting game and not just games on Steam that have it approved by the publisher/developer.
@@patricktrieu3913 parsec Works great.
I hope someone will reply..
So parsec works absolutely fine for me.. I've played yakuza 0,tales of arise, gta 5, etc on my phone streaming from my pc.
My problem is, due to the smaller screen size of a smartphone, I get headaches.
If I buy a cheap android tablet, will parsec work fine on it?
If so, Can someone recommend a cheap enough (~$100-150) android tablet for it?
I have no issues with latency or image quality, it's only the screen size of my smartphone that is a bother.
@@AJ-jq3hm i dont have an answer, but all you should need is a tablet with a 5ghz wifi.
We've been looking at work streaming options and this video was super helpful. Thanks so much!
Amazingly production of content, i was looking for something like this for weeks on
If there is any sponsored video on TH-cam that is clearly not shilling for the company sponsoring, it’s this one.
Thank you very much for this. You've convinced me to try Parsec. Your review was in-depth, detailed, everything tech & business peeps need! 👍👍
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Parsec has breathed new life into fighting games on PC that use 20 year old netcode solutions, even new ones using it.
The problem is that all these latency tests highly depend on your location. You could get completely different results at your location and with your setup.
Yeah. Like for me, Geforce NOW has been amazing. It's been literally like gaming locally it's so damn smooth. But a couple of these others have really struggled for me.
Yeah over here in socal Geforce now is giving me near local numbers, I'm getting in the 30-40ms range.
I agree, but the fact that he used the same fast connection for all the tests removes that variable and allows you to see which service performs best when it comes to encoding and decoding latency.
Although being a sponsored video, this was a nicely detailed explanations, observations and tests. Thanks!
Another interesting scenario I'd love to see is using parsec in office or in home. Scenario: I have a server functioning as my plex media server and a "cloud" gaming PC. I'd like to have access to this PC in multiple rooms (example I'm playing a game in the living room, fiancee wants to watch a movie or TV, so I move to the bedroom) my setup entails multiple nvidia shields, potentially even one setup on a PC monitor with keyboard and mouse in the guest bedroom. I'd love to see (either nvidia shield, apple tv or whatever cheap option to use for parsec) in home and the difference when you are able to open it up full bore with a much higher bitrate over your local LAN. Are we at the point where we don't need multiple gaming PCs
Very interesting use case. I'm also curious about the results over a local network. It's a shame that support for NVIDIA GameStream is ending in February and will in-turn effect Moonlight but Parsec seems arguably the best option in any case.
Did you give your idea a go? Would be curious to hear your thoughts.
@@1njustice I've been doing this for the last 3-4 years and it works very well. I'll use Parsec when outside my network as either a remote desktop solution or streaming games to my Surface laptop. When im' at home, i'll use Moonlight to stream games to my Raspberry Pi 4 using HEVC for a near flawless experience. I've switched from Nvidia Gamestream to Project Sunshine since the deprecation was announced.
This is the comparison I have been looking for. Great video!
Did you compare Parsec latency in h.264 versus h.265 modes? You appear to have done all the testing with h.265, but I've seen reports that on some systems, h.264 can offer much lower latency.
I use parsec in my LAN to run heavy software like Fusion 360 and slicers for 3d printing and noticed that h.265 is fuzzier than h.264, so yes, I think this would be a nice test.
There was a video testing h264 nvenc vs h265 nvenc, I was surprised to see h264 nvenc delivering better quality than h265 nvenc on the 2000 series and above cards.
@@Kidsnd274 did you set the same bit rate for H265 as you did for H264? Because H265 should be crisper and clearer at the same bit rate set as it is about 30 to 50% more efficient.
@@sermerlin1 It could be because NVIDIA put in a lot of work in their H264 encoder to make it retain quality better but not that much in their H265 encoder. Well I could be wrong.
@@Kidsnd274 yeah but unless there is some pass that nvidia does with its nvenc on H264 it just doesn't make sense.
As H264 has 16x16 grids and the more bit rate the more in a second grids are updated with more information..
While H265 can go as tiny as 8x8 and it can even go lower by spliting these blocks up as well... aaalll the way to the large blocks of 64x64 in size and thus making image sharp and crisp where trully needed while being 30-50% more efficient.
Maybe parsec needs to work more on hevc265 transcoding to further optimize it?
That's a really interesting video and food for thought. Thank you.
It would have been interesting to include Shadow PC, as they are one of the rare cloud service that gives you access to a full windows environment
dude just bought the thing 2 days ago and watching this for better solution lol
i use my phone to stream shadow cloud then turn it into client to stream it in local parcec host pc for better quality and lower latency
Woah
Never expected such transparency from a youtube channel but im really amazed here
Wish you the best from now to the end of days
Parsec is the absolute best. I use it daily for basic computing as well as gaming and almost never have any issues. Free version is amazing. Considering subscribing just to support the devs, it is THAT good.
gonna make me cry 🥲
You can add windows in geforce streaming. It enables you to use it just like parsec. You just need to deactivate mouse acceleration everytime you connect but i find the quality to be way superior.
@@ParsecGaming Doing the lord’s work
Rich, any comments on which handles frame-pacing the best, or the best combination of settings to use on host and client PCs? When streaming to Android, I've had the best luck with a 60 Hz limit set on the host PC (RTSS or Nvidia drivers), and Moonlight on Android with the 'Never drop frames' option enabled (simply called 'Frame Pacing' on the PC client).
I use GeForce Now for games, as a founder, and Parsec for work and unsupported GFN games. I only had two "issues" with GFN: a 5 min queue once and a maintenance down time that I forgot about. I am currently looking into having my whole process work around remote so I'm looking into Surface 7/8 like ultrabooks like the Lenovo X12 and Asus flip 13 the latter being the cheapest but way underpowered. The kicker? It just occurred to me I might actually go with VR instead of a ultrabook but that idea is a little too far ahead of what is available at this time.
Such a valuable test!!!
Great video! I use Moonlight a lot, but only through my LAN so I could play my PC games on my couch. Can’t really tell much difference, except that I run the game at 1080p and streamed to a 4k TV
What device do you connect to your TV for Moonlight? a Nvidia Shield?
@@lachyjp Apple Tv 4k, but not the new one
Hey man any way to point me a tutorial on how to set it up via lan .
@@marior2626 Not sure which one is the best tutorial in TH-cam, but it's pretty simple. For Moonlight, just download the app on the Apple TV or any ios device. As long as your PC has an nvidia gpu that's not too old, and connected to your LAN, it should find it automatically. You just have to input a security code initially
@@HoleLeashIt thank you very much for answering
Wow! I've been hoping DF would do a Parsec vs Moonlight vs others, but they went above and beyond and even included enterprise level solutions. Only DF can provide in-depth tech analysis of this level.
I personally use Moonlight on my Nvidia Shield TV to stream locally to my bedroom TV and I absolutely love it. It's 100% gamepad friendly. Parsec on the other hand is less friendly to my USB-less Shield.
I use the exact same setup with an nvidia shield TV. It works great. Game streaming should be talked about more. Especially the local kind.
One important matter that you have not mentioned is that Moonlight is capable of 120Hz stream with 150mps bitrate. It's far better in both quality and latency than parsec can achieve. Since discovered, I never returned back to parsec.
Moonlight works remarkably well over the same wifi network. I’ve played Halo Infinite with it with zero issues and I almost forget I’m streaming a game, that’s how good the latency is.
@@artofwar420 over the same network (lan) latency would generally be impacted by your network hardware, channel congestion and traffic.
@@TheNpcNoob yep, so don’t stream 4K shows while you’re playing. Or don’t have a crappy wifi router.
@@artofwar420 exactly, I personally have a 2nd separate LAN network (managed switch) just to access my home labs and servers. I then join the 2 together via ZeroTier (on a device by device bases) when I need access to WAN and the the first LAN.
@@TheNpcNoob fancy ✨ good stuff
I use it to play Smash online with my friends, Its WAY better than when I play on my switch with it's built in online.
That's insane
1:40 !! nice to see street fighter 2 turbo as reference test :D
It should go without saying that everyone’s mileage will vary, the best thing one can do would be to try every one (that offer trials) and see one that performs on average better.
Just to say in a bitrate limited situation (my upload is 42mbps max) Moonlight in h265 is WAY better than parsec in video quality, latency and number of stutters.
Am i doing something wrong with parsec or is moonlight really better than parsec for limited bitrate situation ?
From what I understand, that quality you speak of is only possible with Nvidia cards. Is that what you have?
@@NyneIX9 Moonlight is only possible un Nvidia cards, you literally can't use it on AMD
@@Dabid13 You can use Sunshine or open stream to utilize moonlight on AMD.
@@patricehamilton9327 I just looked them out, aren't those projects abandoned or something like that?
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Great video!
I wonder how Parsec compares to AMD Link. Great in-depth dive hear mate!
Does it work on new macbook m1 chip??
Great vid!
Interesting stuff!
I miss the mentioning of Parsec's arcade mode. It's very fun, the last time I shared Mortal Shell and let the guests suffer:)
Cruel
I literally just installed Parsec for the first time today for sharing a PC over a home network. With under 5ms total encode/decode/network latency, I swear it feels local. If it wasn't for the free version's 4:2:0 encoding, you wouldn't be able to tell the computer was in a different room and not under the desk. However one big drawback for me is that it requires hardware video encode on the host. I wanted to use this for my work VDI machine, and VDIs (something like a VMWare instance running in your employer's server room) don't usually have hardware accelerated graphics. So no hardware encode, and thus Parsec. I'm stuck with remote desktop (which even over a LAN is much slower than Parsec, let alone over a VPN to another city), or even worse, VMWare Horizon, which makes remote desktop seem lightning fast by comparison.
In any case, for my LAN use case, Parsec is amazing, enormously better than remote desktop.
lol you must be a bad casual player then....
@@Puretea4711 Or just better than you.
Is that a Focusrite Scarlett at 28:13? I've been eyeing those for my guitar recording. Managed to get a pretty good sound just hooking up a micro USB from my amp straight to my PC. Still a work in progress but those look like a good value.
Focusrite Scarlett 3rd gen is great and worth the money
Focusrite Drivers are driving people nuts though … if you want a flawless interface you should try a RME audio interface
I've owned a Focusrite Scarlett 3rd Gen 2i2, but I wouldn't recommend it due to the poor quality of the headphone output jack, and output amplifier. It has issues driving lower-impedence gear and will put audible distortion into them, along with a high noise floor.
I recommend the MOTU M2 instead if you can find one in stock for MSRP. It's better in every way for slightly more money in my opinion.
Just to say I watched video trough a Parsec session and forgot :)
Excuse my ignorance, but does anyone know how to relieve my target pc's washed out looking colours picture when I stream from my host (which looks much nicer). For reference I am streaming 1080p 60 over a powerline home network using 1gb ethernet ports.
Change your feed from FULL to Partial. Let me know if that solved it.
@@EAprima thanks I might look into. I appreciate that the data shows parsec to be an improvement on remote play from steam, but sadly for parsec I've found steam to present a better experience out of the box without having to twist all the knobs etc.
Can Parsec be used over a local network instead of the internet?
Yes, but I think it needs internet access for the initial account login step
I'm just an enthusiast but are all video encoders made the same? They must use very different algorithms, right? Is there any point in digging even further into that?
tq sir
I have tried Parsec and Moonlight. Parsec seems to have better latency and 120hz streaming is faster. Moonlight seems to run slightly smoother at 60hz than Parsec, Also the image quality is better on Moonlight especially with HDR enabled. I can't get HDR to work on Parsec even with 10 bit mode enabled. Moonlight is easier to use and has more client settings that are well laid out and easy to change on the fly. I do seem to have an issue with decoding in Moonlight, only on one of my devices though its a big problem I have spent much time trying to solve it. If not for that I would exclusively use Moonlight. If anybody knows what is causing my extremely long decode times in Moonlight I would like to know, it occured the same day my device updated from android 12 to 13
Thank you very so much for making this video.
Tetris Effect would have made a great test for comparison of image quality as there is A LOT going on, making it a challenge for ANY encoder.
This kind of thing could be really good for the Steam Deck to ramp up the visuals to what your home PC can do and play on the Steam Deck and over Wi-fi at home, you shouldn't have any issues with bandwidth and considering the Steam Deck is 720p resolution, it should work alright for many gamers whiles streaming over the internet.
Being as the Steam Deck is at a 720p resolution and the screen is much smaller, bandwidth should be far less of an issue and the image quality should look great compared to a bigger screen where more bandwidth is needed.
All of this will allow gamers with the Steam Deck to ramp up visual and maintain 60fps but at 720p in portable mode, with that, it would be interesting in what bandwidth you would need for a solid image at 720p.
I'm wondering, wouldn't streaming at 720p and using less bandwidth reduce latency?
I use moonlight mostly for this, similar solution. Latency is minimal. Also higher quality doesn't mean increased latency in all cases. But it will definitely use up more bandwidth.
The funny thing is this can be done over smartphones with decent controllers, and it would basically cover the use case of people who play their handhelds mostly at home.
@@lucascarracedo7421 I've been actually using the AMD drivers for streaming, probably not the best option but it works fine, might look into some of these alternatives once I get my hands on a Steam Deck.
I used moonlight from across Canada (pei to Victoria bc) with splash top as fallback, was fantastic used for playing games and work... so yeah remote from anywhere works, however I had excellent net access on both sides so that helped for sure... I find parsec super intriguing for work .... it’ll be in my next setup for sure...
How do you turn on and off the remote PC?
What version of parsec did you use? The newest release a few weeks ago greatly improved image quality and latency.
What is your client pc specs? Streaming to an Intel gpu versus an Nvidia gpu makes a big difference.
What does the client device have to do with it? If the hardware _decoding_ brings in latency, turn it of and do it in software? And I don't know of a hardware decoder that introduces more latency.
@@jorismak in my test, some Intel gpus are much slower. For example in a vm, in windows, my 630uhd is super slow. And in mac, Intel decoding isn’t very good. But in standard windows, uhd 630 can be decent. Either way, decoding is slower than modern Nvidia cards. Software is slower still.
I would love to see Shadow here!
Would love to know how straight Windows RDP compares!
It's not actually the same thing though. As the client does a lot extra work that these encoded video setups don't.
Would this work with a 6500 xt?
Yes sorry for the late response 😅
Speaking of gaming on Mac, would there be any issues with game streaming? This seems like it could be an excellent solution for the lack of native support. Would this work will considering the M1's single core performance?
I game stream on an M1 Mac Mini using Shadow and Geforce NOW. Both are very good options, though I prefer shadow for its "use whatever you want" approach of just giving you a PC. M1's single-core performance is by no means bad, it's on par or slightly ahead of its rivals in its power bracket. It's no threadripper killer, but it'll serve you well enough.
Parsec is one of the reasons i love pc gaming.
I really hope we'll have a Parsec app on consoles one day (instead of investing on a Elgato HD60S, CronusMax, GamingRig with high-end CPU and GPU to encode and stream the signal from any consoles).
That would be 🔥. It would also relieve some of the tension built by manufacturers (mainly Sony) concerning crossplay, since you'll be able to play any console game in local co-op (but online) with any console.
There's no way this will happen someday (not a chance). But it's one of my dreams to see that happen.
@@unk000 Microsoft could easily implement something like that since they have xcloud
So in the end what is the least consuming, with minimum latency way of streaming my PC to my TV ?
Does this mean I can game in hotels a few states over?
And there is me, using VNC for coding in VS Unity, then using Steam remote play to test, once compiled when gameplay test is required.
Thanks Rich, although sponsored, Parsec is exactly what I need for my game dev.
Juat a crying shame 4:4:4 is the same price as Netflix, makes no sense as Parsec is client to client.
Maybe a 1080p limit on free with 4:4:4?
Or $4?
Intel GPU decode HW?
Parsec was recently purchased by Unity, so we may see some integration into Unity Engine
We used it with my GF during all of 2020, it really helped us stay in touch and share activities, since we saw eachouther only every 2 weeks or so, therefore we couldn't "waste" time together playing games.
I dont know why, but the games no longer show up on the app and a lot of other shit is gone, like the arcade tab
I love this but as a music producer it won't work for me as the audio is passed through my audio interface ☹️
this video is old.. also, they didn't know how to configure Splashtop so it was capped at just 15fps which introduce higher latency. Splashtop also has since launched a gaming optimized version called Splashtop Performance that comes with 444 color and support windows as well as mac (parsec doesn't support 444 for mac). in our lab, Splashtop is faster and use less bandwidth than parsec.... & Splashtop is also cheaper. LOL
TL;DR: Parsec is the best of the services they tested for latency-critical applications but with even it having a whopping >90 ms of latency when under *ideal* conditions, "low-input-latency streaming" very much still remains an oxymoron.
It's reduced significantly if everything is 120Hz native.
90 ms isn't that bad at all. Many games of the last generation had almost as much latency built in on the system itself. Its not ideal, but 90ms of end to end latency is acceptable imo.
Think about it though: If native machine gaming latency is already ~45ms like DF suggested, that only leaves ~30ms of encode time, ~10ms of decode time, and ~10ms or more of ping time, which is always going to exist due to distance over-the-internet.
It's impossible to lower this latency much more, other than reducing the already low ~30ms encoding time with a more efficient codec, or lowering the host PC's rendering latency itself.
50ms of streaming overhead within the same city, compared to native PC gaming is more than fair. Considering that connecting to a server halfway across the country already incurs that 50ms as ping time.
Long time DF fan here, I had no idea you have office in Brighton. That's like 20 minutes away from me, cool 👍🙂
when you put a lower bandwith limit you get less latency, try that
the only complaint I have with parsec is that the echo cancelation (for discord calls) doesn't work at all in my experience.
have to run discord calls through an audio repeater to avoid the issue
They have a new option that fixes the issues now!
Tried both Parsec and Steam Remote Play and their peformance and latency doesn't even come close to the seamless experience I have with Moonlight. Yes, Parsec is definitly second best. SRP is terrible. Stick to Moonlight if you can!
does moonlight requires host video encoding ?
@@anonymeba The host pc needs an nVidia GPU with the GameStream protocol and NVENC video encoder for Moonlight to work on the streaming pc.
Pretty in-depth video. Great for those who don't have their main PC locally.
would've been interesting to have had RDP being added to the comparison as well
Please do this for video streaming services
Why would you need latency tests for Netflix?
@@elkklemusic2895 image quality dude…
Are there any good open source alternatives?
Moonlight is open source. And sunshine is now supposed to be the open source server too.
This test is interesting because it's quite opposite of my experience. I tried streaming from my old PC ( with GTX 660 in it ) to my office 15 km away using Moonlight and Steam. With Moonlight, I had constant stuttering while Steam was incredibly stable with minimal latency. I could notice the latency when playing shooters on the mouse, but with a gamepad, latency in Destiny 2 or Tekken 7 was barely noticeable. Now, I did not have Steam installed on the client PC, I used a dedicated Steam Link app for Windows. I wonder if there are any differences between Steam Link and streaming built into Steam client.
When I tried streaming over the local network, the latency and image quality was very similar, but Steam has one big advantage worth mentioning over Moonlight ( I don't know about the other streaming applications). When you are streaming with Steam, the mouse movement is not streamed over the network but it's rendered locally on your computer ( if that makes sense). So in general computer use or playing games like RTS, you don't feel any latency at all because your mouse moves like it was moved on a local computer, just like with RDP built into Windows.
I wonder if these numbers would be different if both server computer, client computer, and the streaming app supported VRR
Interesting how no one is asking for a comparative against Stadia hahahaha
this is kind of a different video, more about remote play and remote pc access than specifically about cloud streaming quality, but tests were already done stadia actually wins when it comes to latency when coupled with their controller, just maybe doesn't have the best image quality like say against geforce now
@@melxb Stadia streams in 4k, which you can’t say about GFN. GFN is great, getting better at least, but the experience all round is better on Stadia.
@@edge3uk pretty sure GeForce now does 4k, but i will say someone that strictly tried them through a smartphone with a nintendo switch like setup, geforce now looked especially slick/crisper, but i wasn't disappointed by stadia at all either
i think using these cloud services like this/handhled gaming laid back on the couch, feels as great as native gaming if not sometimes better actually, well at least than how say some games are 30fps blurry 500p with reduced graphics on the switch
but all of that aside, i will say stadia does launch games faster than geforce now, but the cost is higher than say x cloud and psnow...i do want to see amazon lunda tested, then there is shadow pc as well
@@melxb But DF tested GFN, doesn't they??? My point is that no one cares about Stadia anymore, if anyone cared before...
@@victorsegoviapalacios4710 i guess but it was tested a long time ago and other channels do it, not like df did a bunch of psnow or xcloud testing
Does this work on AMD based systems CPU/GPU?
Parsec does support AMD. Moonlight can be used with Sunshine instead of GeForce Experience
Why didn’t you test Microsoft Remote Desktop?
as a suggestion for encoding videos, use h265 and opus instead of h264 and ac3. With opus you can go as low as 96kbps, but 192 is suggested.
Or if you want to be on pair with today technology, use svt av1 or aomenc with av1an and scene detection
Why didn't you test high framerate tho :( the monitor you're using supports it
43 ms is aaaaaages ...
Moonlight does about 30ms for me streaming from my desktop to phone on 4g.
Something is off about your overall numbers.
same for me, moonlight is way better than parsec with my test
The only missing feature from Parsec, is a copy and paste files from the client to host and vice versa. Other than that it's awesome.
Are there other streaming services letting you that?
@@idealirreal Team Viewer
Recommend trying Shadow!
Have been using parsec with AWS gpu instance for my cloud gaming in the past year, i love building pc but its now becoming harder for me to justify spending for pc
I GPU instance on AWS is more expensive that a local machine.
I simply wish there was a simple way to wake up your PC remotely, without the need of extensive rocket science engineering knowledge operating on open router cord.
Parsec is great for remote work. I work from home, but sometimes I need to travel. I had to make sure my spouse would boot up my PC every morning before she left for work, so I can continue working from the other end of the continent. Again, Parsec was SO reliable. Never once broke on me.
Who turns their PC off?
@@ipetloudog you can just switch it off remotely, shut it down like how you always do
@invalidude - You can wake up a PC remotely via Wake-On LAN. This is easy to do from within the same LAN. If you're elsewhere, you can setup a way to remotely connect to a device on your network, which then in turn sends the Magic Packet to wake up your PC. For example, many routers can do this. From Wikipedia: "Most home routers are able to send magic packets to LAN; for example, routers with the DD-WRT, Tomato or PfSense firmware have a built-in Wake-on-LAN client. OpenWrt supports both Linux implementations for WoL etherwake and WoLs."
Heck, I dont even plan play or work remotely. Yet I am watching this.
I wonder how parsec handles challenging conditions (mobile data, bandwidth constrained, congested office network)....
Parsec is great for playing couch co-op games online too, works much better than steam's remote play in my experience. Latency and image quality is just top notch.
You're too kind!
I concur. I dreamed of playing Def Jam Fight for NY as a kid and now I can with Parsec
Oh yes, I played a way out with my friend, who had a not so great pc, he was amazed by the visual quality and latency.
A sponsored video without a barrage of dislikes? Wild.
That's because game streaming, always online and everything associated with it is pure evil.
I'm
Amazed how slow the internet is in some of the countries. In Hungary you get fiber gigabit (1000 Mbps) for around 15$ / month !
Hmm and here I thought XCloud would also be stacked up against Geforce Now.
Parsec is great, but i wish it could have better image quality for LAN usage. I prefer bringing my desktop to the living room just because of that (the latency is actually decent).
Moonlight seems like a good option for you. I use it instead of Nvidia gamestream on my shield tv since it looks and performs better.
I used it for 4 player streets of rage 4.
I’ve been using Parsec for a year or two and have always had a good experience. Works better than Shadow and some other options. I’m glad you put it through the paces in this video.
Is there a reason why my comments here erased after a minute?
no Anydesk?
Using Parsec for quite some time now for both gaming and work. It works great 👍
Parsec needs a low fps/ low quality software encoder that works on old intel hd igp and gts 730/1030. Also needs a working remote server on linux.
Parsec is still lacking 32:9 support though
Fuckin RIP
Enjoyed the vid as always. Only nitpick, your ‘quick brown fox’ sentence used for text analytics has no ‘s’. Using ‘jumped’ instead of ‘jumps’ literally ruins the point of the sentence, i.e. to use all letters of the alphabet. Really triggered my obsessively British anally retentive detail alarm. Seriously, keep up the good work!!
Would love to see a video looking at using these services for gaming on the TV in the same local network. How do Parsec, Moonlight, and the like hold up @ 4k120 compared to running natively? Would be a great thing to see in terms of do I run a possibly expensive cable setup to my TV or do I just plug it up all on the local network and stream it.
EDIT: For example, I just got a new 4k tv, with 120 hz. To run a fiber HDMI 2.1 cable and USB3.0 cable would cost me upwards of $300. If I were to get a client capable of 1440p120 or 4k120, could it for the most part be sufficient even for games such as call of duty or apex?
As its free, try it out! See what happens
@@ScullyBrewing well yeah but I don’t have an LDAT or a high frame rate camera to do latency tests like DF has
@@bot_matt @5:33 it has some good metrics to help gauge if it's acceptable performance before running wires around at least ^^
Cloud, internet based? Nope.
And not play games with your friends that dont have online support? On a fiber connection?
Too good to pass.
I'm surprised Unity acquired Parsec instead of Valve. But I guess it better for Switch owners, who want more Cloud Streaming titles.
Moonlight is great