OnLive now FREE and WORKS in the UK!

RoyMi6 · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:29

silversurfer said:
Seems it might be excluding people for location not their ping. Try a proxy maybe

Not the case, UK based here.

Zensuji · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:30

*Unistalled*

adam cool dude · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:32

So let me get this straight as long as you have a decent connection there is no need to ever buy a decent computer to play power hungry games?

Only downside to this is the bandwidth usage is going to be huge.

ic1male · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:33

adam cool dude said:
So let me get this straight as long as you have a decent connection there is no need to ever buy a decent computer to play power hungry games?

The resolution because of the video compression looks less than it is so if you want pristine quality 1920x1200, you'll still need your PC.

Zensuji · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:34

adam cool dude said:
So let me get this straight as long as you have a decent connection there is no need to ever buy a decent computer to play power hungry games?

Only downside to this is the bandwidth usage is going to be huge.

And latency. So depends on the games you play.

RoyMi6 · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:35

Yeah, actually worth pointing out that the biggest problem I find is the graphics are a bit fuzzy. Can't obviously see what res it's running at but it's not the best.

ic1male · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:43

Whatever did happen to the cloud computing of the 90s anyway? When I was working in IT during that time, Citrix and Microsoft Terminal Server were all the rage. Why did it all fall by the wayside? At that time, I thought by now all the corporate environments would be running thin clients.

PiKe · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:48

At the bottom of the signup page it says: The Free Trial is only valid within the contiguous United States and is not transferable.

Martini1991 · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:49

Well, that didn't work.

Frapple · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:50

Probably just hammered as it went free a couple of days ago.

Heard good things from podcasts, wonder if they'll ever do consoles with a capture card?

K1LLSW1TCH · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:50

I'm going to try this on my MacBook, just to see if it's as bad as everyone says it is.

orderoftheflame · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:52

I dispute the thread title.

K1LLSW1TCH · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:56

Oh dear... is there any point in my signing up and downloading the client if I'm only on a 6MB connection?

RoyMi6 · 5 Oct 2010 at 11:57

K1LLSW1TCH said:
Oh dear... is there any point in my signing up and downloading the client if I'm only on a 6MB connection?

Says 3MB required... it's more a latency thing... but yeah - Not likely to work for you

K1LLSW1TCH · 5 Oct 2010 at 12:00

RoyMi6 said:
Says 3MB required... it's more a latency thing... but yeah - Not likely to work for you

Awesome, it says 3MB required, I have double that yet it probably won't work! I'd laugh if anyone here has tried it on a 50MB connection and it gave them the high latency message too.

ic1male · 5 Oct 2010 at 12:01

K1LLSW1TCH said:
Awesome, it says 3MB required, I have double that yet it probably won't work! I'd laugh if anyone here has tried it on a 50MB connection and it gave them the high latency message too.

It's nowt to do with how much bandwidth you have. You could have 1Gigabit and still get high latency.

RoyMi6 · 5 Oct 2010 at 12:04

You mean a connection like that? I still get warnings about latency

K1LLSW1TCH · 5 Oct 2010 at 12:05

That is ridiculous. I guess the trip over the Atlantic automatically adds a certain amount of latency? I tried it anyway and you're right, it didn't work.

ic1male said:
It's nowt to do with how much bandwidth you have. You could have 1Gigabit and still get high latency.

Ahh okay.

I made the assumption that usually you get better latency with higher bandwidth packages but I see that isn't the case.

RoyMi6 · 5 Oct 2010 at 12:11

Good point - forgot you can select what data centre to test against with that website.

There it is - tripped my ping to the nearest possible US data centre...

K1LLSW1TCH · 5 Oct 2010 at 12:13

Pardon my ignorance, I'm not very clued up on Internet connections, but is the 96ms the time it takes for you to contact their server, or the time it takes for you to contact their server and for their server to send a reply to you?