Wow - Crysis; 60fps @720p without the need for the hardware -onlive

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:43 pm

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009 ... gaming.ars

Might be seeing the future right here.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:47 pm

Looks cool!

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:03 pm

Its ideas like this that make the caps on bandwidth a shot in the foot. Streaming High Definition viewing of say Crysis Warhead for you to play over your internet connection would likely eat it up big time. Then you have to have at least a certain speed and a constant speed which most ISP's still have trouble providing during peak times (the times we often game).

Its got potential but it will need alot of help from ISP's to make it happen.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:26 pm

Sava700 wrote:Its ideas like this that make the caps on bandwidth a shot in the foot. Streaming High Definition viewing of say Crysis Warhead for you to play over your internet connection would likely eat it up big time. Then you have to have at least a certain speed and a constant speed which most ISP's still have trouble providing during peak times (the times we often game).

Its got potential but it will need alot of help from ISP's to make it happen.

Caps can be adjusted.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:08 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Caps can be adjusted.

I know they can but for them to go higher than most have them now would be unlikely. But to be realistic they should be raised every year just as Comcast has a 150GIg/month cap..it should go to 200 by at least 2011 and so on to catch up with the needs once we put more into the bandwidth.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:11 pm

Comcast has a 250 GB a month cap.

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:55 am

Sava700 wrote:Its ideas like this that make the caps on bandwidth a shot in the foot. Streaming High Definition viewing of say Crysis Warhead for you to play over your internet connection would likely eat it up big time. Then you have to have at least a certain speed and a constant speed which most ISP's still have trouble providing during peak times (the times we often game).

Its got potential but it will need alot of help from ISP's to make it happen.

According to the article, they did this using a 5mb connection. I would think this would be a perfect fit for FiOS customers. But the fact that this is all done in the cloud is what's exciting about it.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:42 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:Comcast has a 250 GB a month cap.

yeah sorry I was thinking of 150 for some reason..but either way that's still too low.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:26 am

Sava700 wrote:yeah sorry I was thinking of 150 for some reason..but either way that's still too low.

Its too low yet you said 200 GB by 2011 at least?

250 GB is a very fqair limit for now. 250 GB will only be too low once high quality HD is common for all or most video from netflix, hulu, and others.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:39 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:Its too low yet you said 200 GB by 2011 at least?

250 GB is a very fqair limit for now. 250 GB will only be too low once high quality HD is common for all or most video from netflix, hulu, and others.

well I figured a bump up of 50gigs in 2 years... so 300 by 2011 then.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:55 am

Sava700 wrote:well I figured a bump up of 50gigs in 2 years... so 300 by 2011 then.

I think that seems reasonable, really depends on what tech gets adopted by the mainstream after that as to hwo much things will need to grow.