But, for $15/mo or $144/year, I don’t think it’s a bad deal. I’ll probably use this for at least a year, and see where the world is after the pandemic. My city currently has around 100k population, and the CPU sits around 50% usage during gameplay, with around 9GB of RAM usage, and 10-15% of the GPU being used.
It takes about 3 mins for shadow to boot CS up.
#VIRTUAL CLOUD GAMING PC MODS#
I have about 60 mods and hundreds of assets in my game. Their site says 1080GTX or better, and the Quadro P5000 is not better (for gaming), but it’s more than sufficient for CS with all the graphic settings turned up, and I’m even running a couple graphic enhancing mods. Not stellar specs, but much better than my 10 year old (primarily for work) desktop.
They essentially split the processor and reduced the clock speed for the virtualization. The virtual computer I was issued runs a 2014 model Xeon E5-2667 v3 processor with 4 cores, 8 threads at 2.50Ghz, 12GB of 2400mHz RAM, and an Nvidia Quadro P5000. I am usually downloading around 30Mbps when playing CS. So, the value proposition might be reduced if you have a data cap. If you have an internet plan with a data cap, be warned, Shadow will use a lot. I run CS at 1920x1080, so I reduced my resolution of the stream to 1080 on the Shadow side. My home internet connection is 300/30, and that seems to be more than sufficient to run Shadow without any degradation of a 1080 stream, and probably a 1440 stream. But, as many of you know, latency isn’t a huge issue with CS. There are about 13 (I believe) states that are not optimized and they will warn you prior to ordering if your state is not optimized.
To be fair, they did warn me when I signed up that I may experience issues due to Arizona not being an optimized state. I assume I’m using a Los Angeles based data center, and while I get very good DL/UL speeds, my latency is around 30ms. A couple of caveats: I live in Arizona, where they do not currently have a data center. So, I signed up for Shadow, and so far, it’s been great.
#VIRTUAL CLOUD GAMING PC PC#
My old computer just couldn’t handle Cities Skylines anymore, and with everything going on in the world, dropping a couple grand on new PC wasn’t the most prudent decision. I just recently signed up for Shadow Tech’s cloud pc service, and while I’ve only had for it week, I thought I would share my experience here since Cities Skylines is the primary reason I signed up for it.
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