Love the detailed video. Tried this on my pc and hell yeah it works with little to no latency. Hopefully one day I'll have a dedicated headless server for this purpose running 24/7.
Heck yeah! Glad you found this guide helpful! You should check out the Channel OzTalksHardware. He specializes in things like $300 gaming builds. Could be a great way to build a cheap headless server for medium settings 1080p gaming
So fun fact, xbox and Playstation also have their own versions of game streaming, however, I don't have a ton of testing with Xbox's and Playstations is actual garbage. Plus the dedicated decoding hardware in most modern GPUs gives a HUGE edge to PCs
Super Detailed! Its funny to see you seamlessly show people how to mitigate the literal $100s of dollars people are spending to play games they already own, on hardware that again, THEY ALREADY OWN, through means that we already have right under our nose. Steam is the only Launcher/Library Application that provides free cloud playing capabilities via their already free service. I've been using it for so long and again, if you're not playing ESports games like Call of Duty, Halo, Splitgate, Apex Legends, Fortnite, etc then it performs the same, if not better than, the Parsec configuration. But people who aren't interested in computer networking and other categories of the like, probably don't even think of this being a possibility as they aren't constantly thinking about ideas of how to get this to work because they probably aren't PC players. Shadow PC was another service I used to use when I didn't have my own decent gaming rig as they offer a complete administrative-privileged Windows Gaming PC over their servers that are somewhat strategically placed all across the world which you download their Client app and sign-in, automatically launching and starting the Windows OS on your shared Operating system running within a server setup consisting of Multiple Full Sized CPU's (constantly upgraded to be current gen) along side the Multiple Full Sized Nvidia RTX Series GPUs ( 2060/70/80 depending on your Membership Tier choice or sometimes you'd be swapped to a different hardware configuration of the same general performance, kinda... if you aren't well versed in the entire GPU model and performance department, and you'd be given the use of a Quadro P5000/6000 GPU) but it was awesome for only $11.99/mo no time limits or caps and full 1GB Internet. They went bankrupt and had to sell to who currently own it and now its like $30+/mo. Anyways sorry for the rant that wasn't asked for by anyone or their sister but I just wanted to highlight that this capability has been able to be had for a few years and the systems are just getting better over time, though more expensive over time as well if you're paying for multiple services to do this. But if you can find the budget to get yourself at least and mid-level gaming rig, find the time and interest in learning the very little knowledge needed to set up remote playing, cloud server, or tethered gaming, you can save yourself thousands of $ over time because it's like leasing a car, you're paying for something that isn't yours and isn't GOING to be yours at the end. For anyone reading this, thanks for the interest of seeing it to the end. You're the REAL MVP for that one. I'm out, peace and love!
Now I can share my pc power to fulfill my friends dream who just to play gta v I want to say thank you for making this video I really appreciate your hard work
you know, its funny that you say its not good for competitive gaming. parsec and cloud gaming offers competitive fighting game players servers to play on with eachother that offer BETTER input delay than the servers the game company releases for you to play on, and also gives servers to play games that dont have servers anymore. its great! playing fighting games over parsec is actually better than say over xbox live or ps network
lol, so I have been doing this with my headless server at home. but I have been using steam link. so this would be the best way to say play overwatch or borderlands 3 ( got it on epic). my biggest reason for me wanting to set something like tis up was for retro gaming. so using steam link has been good for that with bigbox and all my save states are in one spot. but.. I might just go down this path and see how I like it. see I was already running a plex server that was on 24/7 so I put a 1080 in it and now its a headless dual media/gaming server lol
That's sick dude! Yeah I'm doing something very similar. I have a jellyfin server instead of plex on mine but yeah I found that Parsec (for me at least) just works so much better than the alternatives (although moonlight is incredible on the firestick 4k which Parsec cannot run well on). The big advantage of this method beyond Parsec being a lot smoother is honestly just that Playnite can launch everything from any of the stores and bypass the launchers like battle.bet which for me is the cherry on top. Happy gaming brother!
I have a priority level geforce now account and I use it to play games from a gaming server but there are ways to play these games on console using the web browsers rainway works but parsec is a bit difficult to setup as there is a bit of troubleshooting that is difficult to ignore sometimes.
Yeah I haven't used consoles in a hot second for anything other than to play th4ough exclusives, but I've also heard that Rainway is the best option there. I need to do a 2022 roundup this year as I had issues with Rainway, but I've heard great things lately and I've actually gone away from using Parsec as I've found Moonlight superior in almost every circumstance due to how it handles screen capture.
Funny you mention that, I actually had the xbox controller wired into the laptop, but the controller on my phone was a Razer Junglecat and is bluetooth only (looks similar to the Kishi which is indeed USB-C). I did a bit more testing since this video and what I have gathered is that the decoder on my phone is just a bit better at handling 1440p video (which makes perfect sense).
Aha funny you say that I also did that back in the day and it was...... A fun experiment at best. The tech has come a long way so hopefully this works for you! Good luck!
Hey thanks! Yeah so I've tried quite a few but not aware. Geforce now was the one that worked best for me personally (by a long shot) and Shadow was a close second although that's not quite the same thing. I got mixed results with Vortex but that came out generally unfavorable.
@@taittech.9573 personally I love Shadow it just a matter of what your connection is like for example I have T-Mobile and it runs great without any Wi-Fi but I don't have any Wi-Fi setup in my house so I don't know how it is on Wi-Fi it may be just simply the carrier that you have of course I don't really notice latency either so and I got 5G but still
I know this is an old video but myabe I can get an answer here. I'm trying to do this to stream modded bethesda games to my friends because they don't wanna setup huge modpacks and they also can't all afford the hardware to run my modpacks. The issue is I need to be able to stream the game to them through the mod manager since MO2 uses virtual folders for running
So with parsec it just captures the frame buffer to share the screen, so what you're running or the way you're running it wouldn't matter. If you launch the game, they can play it no matter how you launch it. Trying to understand more, are you looking for a solution thst would allow you to share the files themselves so they can execute the game on their end?
It's definitely worth a try. Because you would be the host in that scenario, you'd have to have a pretty good internet connection. The other issue of latency comes into play with distance. The larger the distance from the host, the more latency introduced. In other words you would ideally want to be within a few hundred miles of the client device to have the best results. This is why solutions like stadia and geforce now have server farms all over the world.
The steam deck is Arch based and while you cannot host from a Linux machine the Parsec client is in the AUR so definitely try it out! That being said I have found Moonlight to be Much more reliable and mature on Linux personally.
@@taittech.9573 good to know might install windows then also does this work with emulators? also moonlight thx for letting me know about the alternative kinda curious if this would work for emulators cuz tried some retro cloud services before wasn't a fan of them it would be cool to make my own
So, I presume you'd have to not only have a good internet connection, a second device, but also fairly good specs on the host device. This is me responding without watching the whole video first. I'm trying to research some stuff.
Yup! So you'd need at least some mediocre specs. I'd say you could build a $500-$600 dollar machine that could run most AAA titles at 1080p with medium to high settings. The overhead for Parsec is extremely low so any decent host machine will do. As far as internet goes, if you want to game on the go it's pretty much a fiber connection or bust in my experience unless you're playing strategy games or other turn based games. That being said, if you're streaming in home, Parsec simply uses the internet to authenticate the connection then everything else is just dependent on your networks bandwidth so your internet speed doesn't really matter much at all until you leave your home network. You can also follow the steps in this video on a cloud based machine and that takes care of the host specs and solid internet requirement for you. Hope this helps!
I have an high and PC and I have done all the process that you have shown in the video but I want to play GTA v on mobile the game is running fine but I can't control the game I don't have Xbox controls or anything else can you please tell me the solution how can I get a virtual controls on my screen for gta v
Parsec doesn’t support virtual controls however sunshine/moonlight do, so I’d take a look at those. Parsec is more user friendly to set up but personally I find sunshine/moonlight to be much better and it’s what I use on all my devices
can i ask some question . how about this. 1 host for computer and 3 or more client like tab and phone and laptop what is the initial speed of the internet req? and can be possible lag ?? if more client connect to host?
Hey so it's hard to answer this directly because it's really a moving target with a lot of variables at play. The latency is on both ends so ideal you'd want you AND the person/client connecting to have under 20ms network latency TOTAL. Then you'll want probably about 5-7 mbps designated for each connection at 720-1080p so likely with 4 clients connected you'll want the upload set to around 50Mbps
So this is a tool to dial into a more powerful PC that you own or have access to. If you don't own a second PC, then you'd have to have a friend's PC to access or set up a cloud server.
Hello great video i always wanted a launcher i can have some fun on without having to pay them big prices i have been seeing. But i do have a question. Is there a launcher like this one that i can use that will let me change things around like colors and what not?
Hey, thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video. Unfortunately, there's not a launcher that I've found that has that level of customization built in. The Playnite developer documentation does contain instructions in creating custom themes which can be loaded to do that, but it's definitely not a straightforward process and would require a bit if coding.
@@taittech.9573 my use for this is for my two brothers to play on one of my servers and have some fun on them. The one server I have was donated to me has two Tesla p100 cards in them. I’m not a gamer so I have no use for them. However I been thinking and trying to figure out a way to give my brother access. So my other question is I guess how would my brothers load there games? If they only have just the interface or would it be the whole desktop? I never ran something like this before. I run remote desktop servers but not something like this.
Yeah so the interface is just a program that runs over top windows so they would easily use their mouse and keyboard to just exit Playnite to install their games then just reopen Playnite and it should scan and find the newly installed games automatically
As long as it is a local multiplayer game it will work no problem! Only think to note is that due to limitations in Windows (not really Parsec's fault) only one person can use mouse and keyboard. The others must use controllers.
Nice! I've found steam link to be super hit or miss for me personally but I know a lot of people have had a ton of success with it! I usually use Moonlight for in home streaming and Parsec for remote streaming.
What if you don´t want to game and just want to surf the web or do some work, can this also we used? Because I don't want to use the pc for just gaming.
It can indeed. Parsec itself is just designed to be an extremely low latency remote desktop software that also handles relative mouse movements correctly (this makes a huge difference when doing things like CAD work). You can use it for whatever you would like, it's not just for gaming.
Hello I have an idea and I was wondering if u could answer my questions to see if this would work so there is a game I use to play zombie raiders beta now my idea is cant I run a server off my pc and connect it to the game through some code? This method was done through mario kart wii but not by a server off a pc
So this just taps into the power of an existing PC, so for this to works you'd have to have a PC accessible capable of running the game. You can run this is a cloud machine like those provided by paperspace pretty easily and that would easily be able to run Fortnite at 1080p 60fps. In regards to lag, as mentioned in the video, this is very much dependent on the internet connection. All cloud gaming has some degree of lag. If your connection is fast enough and your ping is low enough it is possible to have lag that is only about a frame or so. In other words most people wouldn't notice the delay at all.
@@taittech.9573 I've tried that one as well, it didn't work out as planned, the controls are limited and doesn't support most the games I want to play, maybe it was fixed in an update but last time I checked it was lacking in the features I needed
just tried it again, its still lacking in features, the games i want to play does support controllers, its mouse and keyboard and having to run extra soft just to convert the controller to keyboard presses isn't worth it for me, currently its better to emulate it on my phone than to use remote soft, even tho it would have been nice to free up space on my phone and use my PC's larger drives
Hey! So unfortunately that would not be possible without enough money to buy several homes 😅 The core issue comes down to existing hardware and how to split that up amongst users. You'd have to virtualize cores and potentially GPUs (depending on what approach you take) then you'd have to have a connection that could support that. Standard for the industry is 1 gigabit symmetrical connections so essentially you'd have to find a way to provide 1million gigabit per second internet. This is the type of task best suited to a data center and is what most of the streaming services are doing.
So I'm pretty new to all this and I'm planning to set this up to play on the tablet from my pc. Should I have my pc connected via ethernet or would it work over wifi?
Hey so if it's a multiplayer game you can have multiple people dial in but multiple people playing their own games on one machine, while possible, would be incredibly complex as you'd have to do some pretty advanced low level virtualization. Possible but not for the front of heart. If you're interested in stuff like that check out 6 gamers 1 cpu over on Linus Tech Tips to get an idea of what it takes :)
You can indeed with Chrome! Keep in mind though that WebRTC (the protocol used here) isn't fantastic. It is playable in a lot of cases but native clients run circles around the web client
is this the equivalent to Shadow Tech ? i use to have Shadow but i wanted another alternative that will allow me to use my regular laptop as a gaming pc with no lag when gaming or suffering the web. so I'm wondering if i can do that for this software as well.
Hey, so it's very similar! The core idea is the same wherein it allows you to dial into your PC remotely, and like Shadow, the experience is tailored towards extremely low latency function. The big advantage Shadow has would be that it's hosted in a data center with optimal routing and insanely fast connections. With Parsec, because you're installing it on your own systems, it's only as good as your internet connection. Ideally, the computer you are connecting to is connected via ethernet and has at least a 30mbps upload connection. If this cannot be achieved make sure you are at least connected to the 5ghz band on your router as the 2.5ghz band introduces crazy amounts of latency. I would say if you have great internet it'll feel like Shadow (honestly in my testing quite a bit better) but if your internet isn't great then you'll want to maybe lower the resolution and bandwidth in Parsec a tad to keep things smooth.
If you’re using steam deck I highly recommend moonlight over parsec as parsec doesn’t support hardware acceleration on Linux. Install sunshine on the host and moonlight on your steam deck :)
Parsec is used to access a computer and can be best thought of as an extremely finely tuned remote desktop client. It's would only be able to access what is currently on the screen. If you have a powerful enough PC, you could get a dummy HDMI or DP dongle as a "second display" and run the second game on the dummy display. Parsec allows you to select which screen you connect to, so it's possible your friend could dial into that display. It is important to note that onoy one person can use mouse and keyboard. Additional users have to use gamepads as Parsec can virtualize those. Hope this helps!
Certainly can! The bonus of LAN is obviously that you have control over the pipeline to a much greater extent and latency will be significantly lower, but Parsec works great over the internet as well! You'll want a fiber connection for best results however because the higher the latency the longer the period of time between when you move your mouse and when the frame is delivered back to your client device.
Hey, so this wouldn't be great for a web hosted service provided to others. This is more geared toward playing your own games or playing with friends. Additionally, when you get into hosting machines for others there are a lot of legal and licensing issues to address, so this channel will probably stay away from projects like that.
So Parsec is simply a remote desktop client specifically tuned for gaming and tasks that require extremely low latency and accuracy. Because of that you would need a host machine. You can rent a cloud machine such as a paperspace machine to run it, so that is one option, but at that price I would lean towards just using something like a Shadow (shadow.tech) as their $11 a month plan is actually a fantastic value.
Does this work for different locations? If not can you link or make a tutorial that does? Trying to let my friend who doesn't live in the same house as me use my pc since he can't afford one.
Unfortunately not, however, google Wake on Lan. If your motherboard supports it you can remotely wake your PC. You can even use Moonlight instead of Parsec and configure it to automatically Wake on Lan when you attempt to connect
So it basically just taps into an existing PC. Every major game client has settings to allow them to install updates in the background. If you set the game clients this way then you would indeed never have to wait for an update.
Hey, so the software to power this is free but the video is specifically about how to build your own cloud gaming server with what you may have not how to get free cloud gaming. As far as to how it's cloud gaming, it's streamed via a remote connection to a pc serving game data data. That is what cloud gaming is. In thai case it's just self host with your PC acting as the edge server as opposed to a server farm.
What kind of behavior are you getting from the mouse? Maybe I can help diagnose the issue (also if you find bugs/weird behavior definitely consider joining Parsec's discord channel their community is insanely helpful).
@@taittech.9573 Ok. I have no cursor with my android phone or windows tablet if i unplug my mouse from host and plug it into the clients. also i dont have a cursor when no mouse is pluged into Touch devices. Sometimes touch imput goes trough but this very uncontrollable with no cursor and my large Fingers on a small Screen.
Ahhh so you're actually running into a Windows issue not a Parsec issue. Windows needs a mouse connected to render a cursor. In other words, if you unplug your mouse Windows decides there is not need for a cursor, hence why it's not rendered. You have two options: 1) grab an extra mouse so that one is always plugging into the host machine Or 2) Turn on mouse keys on windows. This tells windows to use specific keys to manipulate the cursor and thus will always render a cursor, even when no mouse is connected (I actually did this myself on my headless server to fix the mouse issue you are having). support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14204/windows-7-use-mouse-keys-to-move-mouse-pointer Either of those options should fix your issue 👌 Side note, touch works like a track pad in Parsec and not point and click. Additionally I would def recommend using phone with a gamepad because it's definitely really hard to click things on that tiny of a screen. I also have a hard time with that. Hopefully this helps man!
Unfortunately due to Apple's anticompetitive behavior and app store policies, Parsec does not currently have an iOS app. You can however give Rainway a try. It hasn't ever worked too great in my testing but a lot of people have good luck with it!
If for example I host the server with my pc at home, could I still play these game on my pc on my phone that is not at my home but at my friends house ?
If i download this on my desktop, and I want to use this on my laptop, and let’s say that someone wants to use my desktop that has this installed and I want to play this on my laptop will the desktop get affects? Will it get slower or anything?
So it depends on how it's set up. The way I set it up, I used my own PC and streamed it, but it possible to set up a cloud PC using something like Paperspace so that it would run entirely in the cloud.
Hey so Parsec runs in the background to allow you to connect to the server. Playnite is simply a library management program to organize your games so you'd install Parsec on your gaming server/PC and then you would install Playnite on that PC and leave it running. This would allow you to Parsec into the computer that has Playnite running so you can launch your games.
I wouldn't really worry about DDoS also that's not a penetration tactic, but rather a means to take a service down. It's in the name: Denial of Service. Additionally the point of an IP is to be exposed. It's why they exist, so services on the internet can find you, so you don't really protect your IP under normal circumstances. You do want to protect your network, by being careful what ports you forward, disabled UPNP, keeping things out of your DMZ, employing a firewall, ect. TLDR, DDoS is not something a general consumer would generally worry about and your IP is very much supposed to be exposed
Yup! Parsec just runs in the background so you can connect when you want to. In fact you can even use it to invite someone in your friends list to dial into your machine and it gives them a set of virtualized peripherals that they control so if you have multiplayer games or an emulator perhaps, you can both okay, you on the host and them on the client at their home. This was initially one of the major primary uses for Parsec before they pivoted to less gamer, more professional creator focused.
Really liked this video. - Is it possible to reate a second account, so that I can invite a Freind over and we can play my game on 2 devices. Each player for himself. Is that Possible?
So the easiest way to think about Parsec is as an EXTREMELY advanced remote desktop software. It doesn't manipulate the game in any way, so you could only have a friend use Parsec to play if the game supported local multiplayer, in which case it's be easier to play in the same screen. Unfortunately there's not currently any program I'm aware of that would let you effectively live duplicate your game for another to play.
You can actually play whatever you would like. The software I am using to launch the games is simply a library management tool that imports all of your games so it can launch any game you own.
Hey! So you can download Parsec on Mac as a client but you can't use MacOS as host because Parsec takes advantage of a very unique screen capture protocol within Windows
Yeah absolutely, it's used to dial into and stream your desktop or cloud PC so as long as the PC can host the game, you can play it. The only caveat is that certain platforms (specifically Battle.net) ban people using cloud gaming software although I myself have used Parsec extensively and never received a ban. Additionally it is streaming to your local device so it's important to keep expectations reasonable. You won't be quite as accurate as on a native machine but I personally play a ton of Warzone using Parsec and have been able to perform above average (I'm def better on my local machine but not by a ton)
I mean I definitely prefer a laptop, but it's personal preference really. It's also important to note this was used for the purposes of demonstration but it can easily be streamed to a laptop, tablet, or tv instead.
It does indeed! It has always worked as a host, but Parsec actually just last weeke released hosting in Mac as well. Keep in mind the feature is in a preview state so don't judge it just yet it'll improve drastically in the near future!
Oh man, this is awesome. We can have our own stadia now.
Glad you enjoyed the video! Happy gaming!
Love the detailed video. Tried this on my pc and hell yeah it works with little to no latency. Hopefully one day I'll have a dedicated headless server for this purpose running 24/7.
Heck yeah! Glad you found this guide helpful! You should check out the Channel OzTalksHardware. He specializes in things like $300 gaming builds. Could be a great way to build a cheap headless server for medium settings 1080p gaming
exactly what WE needed, i'm suprised why you still don't have at least 2k subscribers, but anyway, you just gained one!
Thanks for watching man!
Awesome! This is why i switched to PC so much freedom. I don't ever see it happening that console manufacturers will allow personal cloud hosting.
So fun fact, xbox and Playstation also have their own versions of game streaming, however, I don't have a ton of testing with Xbox's and Playstations is actual garbage.
Plus the dedicated decoding hardware in most modern GPUs gives a HUGE edge to PCs
Super Detailed! Its funny to see you seamlessly show people how to mitigate the literal $100s of dollars people are spending to play games they already own, on hardware that again, THEY ALREADY OWN, through means that we already have right under our nose. Steam is the only Launcher/Library Application that provides free cloud playing capabilities via their already free service. I've been using it for so long and again, if you're not playing ESports games like Call of Duty, Halo, Splitgate, Apex Legends, Fortnite, etc then it performs the same, if not better than, the Parsec configuration. But people who aren't interested in computer networking and other categories of the like, probably don't even think of this being a possibility as they aren't constantly thinking about ideas of how to get this to work because they probably aren't PC players. Shadow PC was another service I used to use when I didn't have my own decent gaming rig as they offer a complete administrative-privileged Windows Gaming PC over their servers that are somewhat strategically placed all across the world which you download their Client app and sign-in, automatically launching and starting the Windows OS on your shared Operating system running within a server setup consisting of Multiple Full Sized CPU's (constantly upgraded to be current gen) along side the Multiple Full Sized Nvidia RTX Series GPUs ( 2060/70/80 depending on your Membership Tier choice or sometimes you'd be swapped to a different hardware configuration of the same general performance, kinda... if you aren't well versed in the entire GPU model and performance department, and you'd be given the use of a Quadro P5000/6000 GPU) but it was awesome for only $11.99/mo no time limits or caps and full 1GB Internet. They went bankrupt and had to sell to who currently own it and now its like $30+/mo. Anyways sorry for the rant that wasn't asked for by anyone or their sister but I just wanted to highlight that this capability has been able to be had for a few years and the systems are just getting better over time, though more expensive over time as well if you're paying for multiple services to do this. But if you can find the budget to get yourself at least and mid-level gaming rig, find the time and interest in learning the very little knowledge needed to set up remote playing, cloud server, or tethered gaming, you can save yourself thousands of $ over time because it's like leasing a car, you're paying for something that isn't yours and isn't GOING to be yours at the end. For anyone reading this, thanks for the interest of seeing it to the end. You're the REAL MVP for that one. I'm out, peace and love!
Now I can share my pc power to fulfill my friends dream who just to play gta v I want to say thank you for making this video I really appreciate your hard work
So happy to hear that! I'm always thrilled when someone finds my center helpful. Happy gaming friend!
Does it use servers?
Excellent walkthrough - very clearly explained, thank you.
No problemat all. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
I use it for Twitch Streaming now, so tysm for showing me this. I subscribed!
you know, its funny that you say its not good for competitive gaming. parsec and cloud gaming offers competitive fighting game players servers to play on with eachother that offer BETTER input delay than the servers the game company releases for you to play on, and also gives servers to play games that dont have servers anymore. its great! playing fighting games over parsec is actually better than say over xbox live or ps network
lol, so I have been doing this with my headless server at home. but I have been using steam link. so this would be the best way to say play overwatch or borderlands 3 ( got it on epic). my biggest reason for me wanting to set something like tis up was for retro gaming. so using steam link has been good for that with bigbox and all my save states are in one spot. but.. I might just go down this path and see how I like it.
see I was already running a plex server that was on 24/7 so I put a 1080 in it and now its a headless dual media/gaming server lol
That's sick dude! Yeah I'm doing something very similar. I have a jellyfin server instead of plex on mine but yeah I found that Parsec (for me at least) just works so much better than the alternatives (although moonlight is incredible on the firestick 4k which Parsec cannot run well on). The big advantage of this method beyond Parsec being a lot smoother is honestly just that Playnite can launch everything from any of the stores and bypass the launchers like battle.bet which for me is the cherry on top.
Happy gaming brother!
I have a priority level geforce now account and I use it to play games from a gaming server but there are ways to play these games on console using the web browsers rainway works but parsec is a bit difficult to setup as there is a bit of troubleshooting that is difficult to ignore sometimes.
Yeah I haven't used consoles in a hot second for anything other than to play th4ough exclusives, but I've also heard that Rainway is the best option there.
I need to do a 2022 roundup this year as I had issues with Rainway, but I've heard great things lately and I've actually gone away from using Parsec as I've found Moonlight superior in almost every circumstance due to how it handles screen capture.
Epic video cant wait to set up a headless gaming set up
Always happy to help! Good luck and happy gaming!
Hey awesome video looks like there hasn't been anything posted in a while hope to see more!
OMG, its Ron from Harry Potter but older
I think the reason the latency is lower on your phone is it appears that you are using a usb-c controller
Funny you mention that, I actually had the xbox controller wired into the laptop, but the controller on my phone was a Razer Junglecat and is bluetooth only (looks similar to the Kishi which is indeed USB-C).
I did a bit more testing since this video and what I have gathered is that the decoder on my phone is just a bit better at handling 1440p video (which makes perfect sense).
I used to do this with Log Me In years ago. It sucked. Hope this works out.
Aha funny you say that I also did that back in the day and it was...... A fun experiment at best. The tech has come a long way so hopefully this works for you! Good luck!
I will try to stream THRONE AND LIBERTY, because it have integrated controler and mobile UI :D
I’m going to try this to connect to my pc in east coast India from west coast Canada. Thanks👍
hey! cool vid! have u tried cloud gaming platforms that allow you to bring ur own games? nware, for instance?
Hey thanks! Yeah so I've tried quite a few but not aware. Geforce now was the one that worked best for me personally (by a long shot) and Shadow was a close second although that's not quite the same thing. I got mixed results with Vortex but that came out generally unfavorable.
@@taittech.9573 personally I love Shadow it just a matter of what your connection is like for example I have T-Mobile and it runs great without any Wi-Fi but I don't have any Wi-Fi setup in my house so I don't know how it is on Wi-Fi it may be just simply the carrier that you have of course I don't really notice latency either so and I got 5G but still
Sir can you make a video on how to make a visual gaming pc on visual studio
I know this is an old video but myabe I can get an answer here. I'm trying to do this to stream modded bethesda games to my friends because they don't wanna setup huge modpacks and they also can't all afford the hardware to run my modpacks. The issue is I need to be able to stream the game to them through the mod manager since MO2 uses virtual folders for running
So with parsec it just captures the frame buffer to share the screen, so what you're running or the way you're running it wouldn't matter. If you launch the game, they can play it no matter how you launch it.
Trying to understand more, are you looking for a solution thst would allow you to share the files themselves so they can execute the game on their end?
It work very well. Thank you !
Of course! Glad you found it helpful!
Thank you very much now I have my personal geforce now
Thanks for this helpful lesson, Sir 🙏
Always happy to help man!
Plex of gaming. Nice.
Awesome video man! Very helpful!
Thanks for watching!
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I had idea for the PS3 players since online servers are not any more for the PS3 😭
Do share!
@@taittech.9573 maybe if I created a website for that kinda thing would be helpful for PS3 players
every smart tv will soon have a game streaming app
As long as my girlfriend in the Philippines can use her phone to play games from my gaming pc here in Bangladesh. Im happy!
It's definitely worth a try. Because you would be the host in that scenario, you'd have to have a pretty good internet connection. The other issue of latency comes into play with distance.
The larger the distance from the host, the more latency introduced. In other words you would ideally want to be within a few hundred miles of the client device to have the best results. This is why solutions like stadia and geforce now have server farms all over the world.
@@taittech.9573 okay ill try nonetheless. If its that bad then sadly I'll just have to give up i suppose
Good luck dude!
tempted to try this out with the steam deck when I get one
The steam deck is Arch based and while you cannot host from a Linux machine the Parsec client is in the AUR so definitely try it out!
That being said I have found Moonlight to be Much more reliable and mature on Linux personally.
@@taittech.9573 good to know might install windows then also does this work with emulators? also moonlight thx for letting me know about the alternative kinda curious if this would work for emulators cuz tried some retro cloud services before wasn't a fan of them it would be cool to make my own
So both of these just stream your PC so unlike the other services you can stream whatever you want. Emulators work great and I stream them often.
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So, I presume you'd have to not only have a good internet connection, a second device, but also fairly good specs on the host device. This is me responding without watching the whole video first. I'm trying to research some stuff.
Yup! So you'd need at least some mediocre specs. I'd say you could build a $500-$600 dollar machine that could run most AAA titles at 1080p with medium to high settings.
The overhead for Parsec is extremely low so any decent host machine will do. As far as internet goes, if you want to game on the go it's pretty much a fiber connection or bust in my experience unless you're playing strategy games or other turn based games. That being said, if you're streaming in home, Parsec simply uses the internet to authenticate the connection then everything else is just dependent on your networks bandwidth so your internet speed doesn't really matter much at all until you leave your home network.
You can also follow the steps in this video on a cloud based machine and that takes care of the host specs and solid internet requirement for you.
Hope this helps!
How to add gaming subscription $ in that quality like for 50$ is 480p in my server but I did not know
I had this question so can have my sons share my pc.....
I have an high and PC and I have done all the process that you have shown in the video but I want to play GTA v on mobile the game is running fine but I can't control the game I don't have Xbox controls or anything else can you please tell me the solution how can I get a virtual controls on my screen for gta v
Parsec doesn’t support virtual controls however sunshine/moonlight do, so I’d take a look at those.
Parsec is more user friendly to set up but personally I find sunshine/moonlight to be much better and it’s what I use on all my devices
how fix this error > Missing required request header. Must specify one of: origin,x-requested-with
Not sure about that one. I'd suggest checking the support channel in their Discord. Those peeps are fantastic!
So going to try this out. Thanks for the video! Insta sub + like
Glad you enjoyed it! Good luck and happy gaming!
Do how can you try on your PC when your not home.??
can i ask some question . how about this. 1 host for computer and 3 or more client like tab and phone and laptop what is the initial speed of the internet req? and can be possible lag ?? if more client connect to host?
Hey so it's hard to answer this directly because it's really a moving target with a lot of variables at play. The latency is on both ends so ideal you'd want you AND the person/client connecting to have under 20ms network latency TOTAL. Then you'll want probably about 5-7 mbps designated for each connection at 720-1080p so likely with 4 clients connected you'll want the upload set to around 50Mbps
is this not possible without 2 computers?
i only have 1 laptop so it doesnt give me the ''your computer'' option i only see ''this computer''
So this is a tool to dial into a more powerful PC that you own or have access to. If you don't own a second PC, then you'd have to have a friend's PC to access or set up a cloud server.
bro's Tutorial 💀 Bro's video FPS 💀
so using this would it allow you to restream switch games and other stuff
Hello great video i always wanted a launcher i can have some fun on without having to pay them big prices i have been seeing. But i do have a question. Is there a launcher like this one that i can use that will let me change things around like colors and what not?
Hey, thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video. Unfortunately, there's not a launcher that I've found that has that level of customization built in. The Playnite developer documentation does contain instructions in creating custom themes which can be loaded to do that, but it's definitely not a straightforward process and would require a bit if coding.
@@taittech.9573 my use for this is for my two brothers to play on one of my servers and have some fun on them. The one server I have was donated to me has two Tesla p100 cards in them. I’m not a gamer so I have no use for them. However I been thinking and trying to figure out a way to give my brother access. So my other question is I guess how would my brothers load there games? If they only have just the interface or would it be the whole desktop? I never ran something like this before. I run remote desktop servers but not something like this.
Yeah so the interface is just a program that runs over top windows so they would easily use their mouse and keyboard to just exit Playnite to install their games then just reopen Playnite and it should scan and find the newly installed games automatically
@@taittech.9573 thank you
So I can do a "Lan party" with my friends on some basic devices who are conectet to the streaming server?
As long as it is a local multiplayer game it will work no problem!
Only think to note is that due to limitations in Windows (not really Parsec's fault) only one person can use mouse and keyboard. The others must use controllers.
does this work so I can host my OWN game ,,, don't want to use playstore OR the other fruit,,,, just want to host My OWN game Thanks
How about multiple clients
I will setup steam link to play games on my phone when I purchase a windows server
Nice! I've found steam link to be super hit or miss for me personally but I know a lot of people have had a ton of success with it!
I usually use Moonlight for in home streaming and Parsec for remote streaming.
@@taittech.9573 That's good, make a video of gameplay using steam link
I have a series planned testing all the different streaming systems and steam link is on the list!
@@taittech.9573 I am waiting for the series to come
do you need the client device alongside the host device to game on your pc?
What if you don´t want to game and just want to surf the web or do some work, can this also we used? Because I don't want to use the pc for just gaming.
It can indeed. Parsec itself is just designed to be an extremely low latency remote desktop software that also handles relative mouse movements correctly (this makes a huge difference when doing things like CAD work).
You can use it for whatever you would like, it's not just for gaming.
Can this be done for multiple users playing on separate phones?
Hello I have an idea and I was wondering if u could answer my questions to see if this would work so there is a game I use to play zombie raiders beta now my idea is cant I run a server off my pc and connect it to the game through some code? This method was done through mario kart wii but not by a server off a pc
Would I need to have a graphics card if I plan on doing this on a PC dedicated to remote gaming?
You would indeed need a GPU or if you want to go budget, possibly an APU
Me brother had a really bad pc and can’t run Fortnite on it so of he does this can he than run fortnite without lag on 1080p with 60 FPS?
So this just taps into the power of an existing PC, so for this to works you'd have to have a PC accessible capable of running the game. You can run this is a cloud machine like those provided by paperspace pretty easily and that would easily be able to run Fortnite at 1080p 60fps.
In regards to lag, as mentioned in the video, this is very much dependent on the internet connection. All cloud gaming has some degree of lag.
If your connection is fast enough and your ping is low enough it is possible to have lag that is only about a frame or so. In other words most people wouldn't notice the delay at all.
Any idea what about games need login on steam ??
Parsec is nice and all, but it doesn't have on screen controls
So Moonlight is a fantastic option if you want on-screen controls. It's just a tad less user friendly to set up.
@@taittech.9573 I've tried that one as well, it didn't work out as planned, the controls are limited and doesn't support most the games I want to play, maybe it was fixed in an update but last time I checked it was lacking in the features I needed
just tried it again, its still lacking in features, the games i want to play does support controllers, its mouse and keyboard and having to run extra soft just to convert the controller to keyboard presses isn't worth it for me, currently its better to emulate it on my phone than to use remote soft, even tho it would have been nice to free up space on my phone and use my PC's larger drives
GREAT VIDEO BRO!! THANKS SO MUCH!! KEEP GOING BRO!! SUBS WILL GO UP VERYY SOON!!! I HAD TO DOUBLE CHECK...HAHA THANKS AGAIN
No problem at all brother!
Hey what are those controllers you are using with the phone? Can you please share.
I used the Razer Junglecat and then upgraded to the Kishi and now I'm on that Steam Deck vibe.
so i can play the games for free
or must i pay to play the games
Is mobile games working in that?
Awesome ,is that possible that client server use 1000+ people at a one instinct of time .If possible How ? can you make video on that
Hey! So unfortunately that would not be possible without enough money to buy several homes 😅
The core issue comes down to existing hardware and how to split that up amongst users. You'd have to virtualize cores and potentially GPUs (depending on what approach you take) then you'd have to have a connection that could support that. Standard for the industry is 1 gigabit symmetrical connections so essentially you'd have to find a way to provide 1million gigabit per second internet.
This is the type of task best suited to a data center and is what most of the streaming services are doing.
So I'm pretty new to all this and I'm planning to set this up to play on the tablet from my pc. Should I have my pc connected via ethernet or would it work over wifi?
Wifi may work but to be honest having your PC hardwired via ethernet will make things MUCH more stable.
have you tried Rainway or Moonlight yet? I cant decide between the 3 Rainway, Moonlight or Parsec
Rainway is not a cloud gaming
along with moonlight and parsec
can i setup different users on this?
found this very easy to do thank you is there a way to have more users?
Hey so if it's a multiplayer game you can have multiple people dial in but multiple people playing their own games on one machine, while possible, would be incredibly complex as you'd have to do some pretty advanced low level virtualization. Possible but not for the front of heart.
If you're interested in stuff like that check out 6 gamers 1 cpu over on Linus Tech Tips to get an idea of what it takes :)
@@taittech.9573 i have seen ltt vid. I think im going to give it a go. Thank you
Is it the same as other cloud gaming services were you connect to a different rig or are you still playing on your pc
This would allow you to use your own PC as the server, so you are simply streaming your PC to your other devices.
@@taittech.9573 Can you run on a cloud service like AWS or some other? Could you make a video about it?
can you play / access to the pc with a browser? like firefox or chrome
You can indeed with Chrome! Keep in mind though that WebRTC (the protocol used here) isn't fantastic.
It is playable in a lot of cases but native clients run circles around the web client
You can get away with this if you have either free electricity or really cheap electricity bill
is this the equivalent to Shadow Tech ? i use to have Shadow but i wanted another alternative that will allow me to use my regular laptop as a gaming pc with no lag when gaming or suffering the web. so I'm wondering if i can do that for this software as well.
Hey, so it's very similar! The core idea is the same wherein it allows you to dial into your PC remotely, and like Shadow, the experience is tailored towards extremely low latency function.
The big advantage Shadow has would be that it's hosted in a data center with optimal routing and insanely fast connections.
With Parsec, because you're installing it on your own systems, it's only as good as your internet connection. Ideally, the computer you are connecting to is connected via ethernet and has at least a 30mbps upload connection. If this cannot be achieved make sure you are at least connected to the 5ghz band on your router as the 2.5ghz band introduces crazy amounts of latency.
I would say if you have great internet it'll feel like Shadow (honestly in my testing quite a bit better) but if your internet isn't great then you'll want to maybe lower the resolution and bandwidth in Parsec a tad to keep things smooth.
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doing this on my Steamdeck
If you’re using steam deck I highly recommend moonlight over parsec as parsec doesn’t support hardware acceleration on Linux.
Install sunshine on the host and moonlight on your steam deck :)
What about if i connect 2 or more clients and play different games, is it possible?
Parsec is used to access a computer and can be best thought of as an extremely finely tuned remote desktop client.
It's would only be able to access what is currently on the screen.
If you have a powerful enough PC, you could get a dummy HDMI or DP dongle as a "second display" and run the second game on the dummy display. Parsec allows you to select which screen you connect to, so it's possible your friend could dial into that display.
It is important to note that onoy one person can use mouse and keyboard. Additional users have to use gamepads as Parsec can virtualize those.
Hope this helps!
Can this stream over the internet instead of a local lan connection
Certainly can! The bonus of LAN is obviously that you have control over the pipeline to a much greater extent and latency will be significantly lower, but Parsec works great over the internet as well!
You'll want a fiber connection for best results however because the higher the latency the longer the period of time between when you move your mouse and when the frame is delivered back to your client device.
after making aur own server how we launch that or make an website plz tell me sir
Hey, so this wouldn't be great for a web hosted service provided to others.
This is more geared toward playing your own games or playing with friends. Additionally, when you get into hosting machines for others there are a lot of legal and licensing issues to address, so this channel will probably stay away from projects like that.
@@taittech.9573 Ok sir thank you so much
Of course! I hope you find what you are looking for.
i made something wrong, the pc doesn`t show up at 5:28 pls help
Hey, so you're signed into Parsec on both PCs? Do you have UPNP enabled non your router?
Can you play a game without owning it but have an account for it?Like GeForce Now?
So Parsec is simply a remote desktop client specifically tuned for gaming and tasks that require extremely low latency and accuracy. Because of that you would need a host machine.
You can rent a cloud machine such as a paperspace machine to run it, so that is one option, but at that price I would lean towards just using something like a Shadow (shadow.tech) as their $11 a month plan is actually a fantastic value.
Does this work for different locations? If not can you link or make a tutorial that does?
Trying to let my friend who doesn't live in the same house as me use my pc since he can't afford one.
Yup it works from anywhere! He can just download Parsec and you can add him as a friend and share your PC with him!
Can Play Nite also turn the Gaming PC on?
Unfortunately not, however, google Wake on Lan. If your motherboard supports it you can remotely wake your PC. You can even use Moonlight instead of Parsec and configure it to automatically Wake on Lan when you attempt to connect
Is this like stadia where i wont have to wait for a game update
So it basically just taps into an existing PC. Every major game client has settings to allow them to install updates in the background. If you set the game clients this way then you would indeed never have to wait for an update.
i dont understand how this is cloud gaming or how its free if i need 2 pcs?
Hey, so the software to power this is free but the video is specifically about how to build your own cloud gaming server with what you may have not how to get free cloud gaming.
As far as to how it's cloud gaming, it's streamed via a remote connection to a pc serving game data data. That is what cloud gaming is. In thai case it's just self host with your PC acting as the edge server as opposed to a server farm.
Mouse input of client doesnt work good. I tried android and Windows client...
What kind of behavior are you getting from the mouse? Maybe I can help diagnose the issue (also if you find bugs/weird behavior definitely consider joining Parsec's discord channel their community is insanely helpful).
@@taittech.9573 Ok. I have no cursor with my android phone or windows tablet if i unplug my mouse from host and plug it into the clients. also i dont have a cursor when no mouse is pluged into Touch devices. Sometimes touch imput goes trough but this very uncontrollable with no cursor and my large Fingers on a small Screen.
Ahhh so you're actually running into a Windows issue not a Parsec issue. Windows needs a mouse connected to render a cursor. In other words, if you unplug your mouse Windows decides there is not need for a cursor, hence why it's not rendered.
You have two options:
1) grab an extra mouse so that one is always plugging into the host machine
Or
2) Turn on mouse keys on windows. This tells windows to use specific keys to manipulate the cursor and thus will always render a cursor, even when no mouse is connected (I actually did this myself on my headless server to fix the mouse issue you are having).
support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14204/windows-7-use-mouse-keys-to-move-mouse-pointer
Either of those options should fix your issue 👌
Side note, touch works like a track pad in Parsec and not point and click. Additionally I would def recommend using phone with a gamepad because it's definitely really hard to click things on that tiny of a screen. I also have a hard time with that.
Hopefully this helps man!
@@taittech.9573 I buy a mouse tomorrow and try it. Thanks for your help.
Absolutely man, good luck and happy gaming!
Can I get this to work on my iOS phone
Unfortunately due to Apple's anticompetitive behavior and app store policies, Parsec does not currently have an iOS app. You can however give Rainway a try. It hasn't ever worked too great in my testing but a lot of people have good luck with it!
If for example I host the server with my pc at home, could I still play these game on my pc on my phone that is not at my home but at my friends house ?
Yes as long as you have a good internet connection
Yup dead on! Really the biggest factor is letency. You don't need super fast internet for this to work but you DO need really low latency.
If i download this on my desktop, and I want to use this on my laptop, and let’s say that someone wants to use my desktop that has this installed and I want to play this on my laptop will the desktop get affects? Will it get slower or anything?
Hey so this serves as a remote client to the desktop so you would not be able to use the desktop while also dialed in from your laptop.
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i have a question, does this improve fps? since its cloud then it doesnt use my pc's ram, cpu and gpu while playing right?
So it depends on how it's set up. The way I set it up, I used my own PC and streamed it, but it possible to set up a cloud PC using something like Paperspace so that it would run entirely in the cloud.
@@taittech.9573 thank you
hey how do your download parsec on playnite?
Hey so Parsec runs in the background to allow you to connect to the server. Playnite is simply a library management program to organize your games so you'd install Parsec on your gaming server/PC and then you would install Playnite on that PC and leave it running. This would allow you to Parsec into the computer that has Playnite running so you can launch your games.
Ddos protection how do I keep my ip safe
I wouldn't really worry about DDoS also that's not a penetration tactic, but rather a means to take a service down.
It's in the name: Denial of Service. Additionally the point of an IP is to be exposed. It's why they exist, so services on the internet can find you, so you don't really protect your IP under normal circumstances.
You do want to protect your network, by being careful what ports you forward, disabled UPNP, keeping things out of your DMZ, employing a firewall, ect.
TLDR, DDoS is not something a general consumer would generally worry about and your IP is very much supposed to be exposed
Can I play games on the host server
Yup! Parsec just runs in the background so you can connect when you want to. In fact you can even use it to invite someone in your friends list to dial into your machine and it gives them a set of virtualized peripherals that they control so if you have multiplayer games or an emulator perhaps, you can both okay, you on the host and them on the client at their home.
This was initially one of the major primary uses for Parsec before they pivoted to less gamer, more professional creator focused.
Really liked this video. - Is it possible to reate a second account, so that I can invite a Freind over and we can play my game on 2 devices. Each player for himself. Is that Possible?
So the easiest way to think about Parsec is as an EXTREMELY advanced remote desktop software. It doesn't manipulate the game in any way, so you could only have a friend use Parsec to play if the game supported local multiplayer, in which case it's be easier to play in the same screen.
Unfortunately there's not currently any program I'm aware of that would let you effectively live duplicate your game for another to play.
does the host need to be turned on for this to work
It does indeed, however you can always look into Wake On LAN as a way to turn on your PC remotely!
how to play custom games that are not on the list
You can actually play whatever you would like. The software I am using to launch the games is simply a library management tool that imports all of your games so it can launch any game you own.
how u do this on Mac?
Hey! So you can download Parsec on Mac as a client but you can't use MacOS as host because Parsec takes advantage of a very unique screen capture protocol within Windows
THANKS!
No problemo!
Can you play battle royal games or with other people.
Yeah absolutely, it's used to dial into and stream your desktop or cloud PC so as long as the PC can host the game, you can play it.
The only caveat is that certain platforms (specifically Battle.net) ban people using cloud gaming software although I myself have used Parsec extensively and never received a ban.
Additionally it is streaming to your local device so it's important to keep expectations reasonable. You won't be quite as accurate as on a native machine but I personally play a ton of Warzone using Parsec and have been able to perform above average (I'm def better on my local machine but not by a ton)
@@taittech.9573 oh okay thanks.
aweesome video!
Thanks a lot!
Why do people play games on their phones?!
There are plenty of reasons. You share a TV with a partner, traveling, getting in a little yime at lunch etc.
@@taittech.9573 It's a 6" screen, you can't see anything...I don't know I can't see any enjoyment in that.
I mean I definitely prefer a laptop, but it's personal preference really. It's also important to note this was used for the purposes of demonstration but it can easily be streamed to a laptop, tablet, or tv instead.
@@taittech.9573 Tablet is the minimum for me
Is it alzo possible with a Windows server 2016 as a host?
Yup! In fact I actually ran it on a paperspace machine with Windows Server 2016 a few years back.
@@taittech.9573 Okay cool! Thanks for the fast respons!
No problemo, happy gaming!
@@taittech.9573 Thank you! Wish I could install the drivers on Server 2016, but anyway :(
@@taittech.9573 What kind of hardware would you recomend for server 2016? Or should i run it W10 as a main pc to stream IT to my other devices?
You are the Real M.V.P :')
Thank you kindly. Always happy to help!
Love it! BTW I think your life is lagging :P
does this work on mac os
It does indeed! It has always worked as a host, but Parsec actually just last weeke released hosting in Mac as well.
Keep in mind the feature is in a preview state so don't judge it just yet it'll improve drastically in the near future!
Hello just a update question in parsec i will need one of there accounts to run parsec?
Yeah so you will need a Parsec account but you can just use the free version. It has everything you need!
@@taittech.9573 thank you
No problem friend.
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