OnLive now FREE and WORKS in the UK!

ic1male said:
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.
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I think many do, well maybe not 100% cloud based due to lack of internet bandwidth but at where I work we have about 200 Thin Clients running on Citrix (terrible!) and I know of some other places that use Hyper-V etc which is suppose to be very good.

Trying to give this ago but I can't find how to play?! :p Signed up and everything but can't find the downloadable client or anything O.o
 
Ahh okay. That's still pretty unplayable I'd say, even for driving games which require precise timing, such as F1. I wonder if this will take off in the US where the latency should be way lower. I guess it all depends on how much they charge for the service.
 
maxilive said:
Trying to give this ago but I can't find how to play?! :p Signed up and everything but can't find the downloadable client or anything O.o
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You should see here: http://www.onlive.com/games

OnLive App Instructions
Download and install the OnLive App
If prompted by your browser, accept any ActiveX dialogs
Launch the OnLive Game Service from your desktop

"INSTALL"

If not then are you running Linux, 'cause it doesn't work on Linux - had a wee bash with Wine as well with no luck.

Roy
 
Just gave it a whirl with the dirt2 demo... yes it works and its just about playable. Obviously there are issues currently with the pings ( im on O2 with a great connection and its saying i have bad latancy )


BUT


If there are more local servers and its cheap enough this could be a very workable system... which i didnt think i would say as i was very skeptical when i first read about it.

Time will tell i suppose.

Clearly the GFX are inferior to the real deal but on a small laptop that wont really matter.
 
Totally AtreuS!

As a proof of concept, for me, I'm sold. Things are only going to get better. My net connection is only going to get faster and they're only going to put more data centres in.

OK, might have problems scaling if this thing really takes off but considering people just laughed in these guys faces when they started talking about this originally I'm more than impressed.

I could swear I heard them talking about making the OnLive console itself available for £25!

Then add on the fact that you could be talking iPad clients, even iPhone client - hell, I bet you could get this working on my £150 netbook!...

I love the idea but agree I'm not forking out for any games on it just yet - just enjoying the free demos of the full games :-)
 
RoyMi6 said:
You should see here: http://www.onlive.com/games

OnLive App Instructions
Download and install the OnLive App
If prompted by your browser, accept any ActiveX dialogs
Launch the OnLive Game Service from your desktop

"INSTALL"

If not then are you running Linux, 'cause it doesn't work on Linux - had a wee bash with Wine as well with no luck.

Roy
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Ah must be blocked at work :( Just redirects me to my "account page". I'll try when I get in :)
 
I'll try this when I get home, but if the graphics are anything less than what I can get at home on my rig then I don't really see the point.

Developers make these games with high settings, why would you want to play them at a lower quality than intended?

Also depends on price, why would I rent these games, I might play 1000 hours of TF2 for the price of £10 or rent it for 3 years and pay £100, just seems crazy.

I understand with things like WOW, you get a real time world constantly being added too and with endless things to do but most games would only get picked up an put down, might rent it for a month and only play it for 2 days.

Still i'll try and keep an open mind and see how it goes.
 
Reza86 said:
I'll try this when I get home, but if the graphics are anything less than what I can get at home on my rig then I don't really see the point.

Developers make these games with high settings, why would you want to play them at a lower quality than intended?

Also depends on price, why would I rent these games, I might play 1000 hours of TF2 for the price of £10 or rent it for 3 years and pay £100, just seems crazy.

I understand with things like WOW, you get a real time world constantly being added too and with endless things to do but most games would only get picked up an put down, might rent it for a month and only play it for 2 days.

Still i'll try and keep an open mind and see how it goes.
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The quality is based on what your connection is possible of but yeah, at the moment I'd agree that it's a bit below par.

Also, you don't have to rent - you can buy:
Batman
3 day pass: $4.99
5 day pass: $6.99
Full pass: $39.99

You can also try the full game for 30 minutes free of charge. For example I'm not aware of a demo available for Assassins Creed 2 anywhere else...
 
ic1male said:
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.
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Lack of infrastructure to support useful capabilities.

This is very much in its infancy and has great prospects, if it can survive to the point where the infrastructure can support the ideal. To compete it needs to be comparable to the decent resolution, low latency gaming we already have... which with the state of net connectivity just isn't going to happen soon for many.
 
Mattey1 said:
So how come this works for a select few but not everyone else? are you using proxies to access it?
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Anyone can sign up and download it at the moment it appears. I had tried a couple of weeks ago and it was locked to US only (postcode and credit card check).

Sometime recently this changed though and you now no longer require a card to sign up. So appears anyone can sign up.

However, I get the impression it's still meant to be US only testing. I think the only reason I'm able to connect is because I'm on a beefy University connection...

They don't appear to be doing any blocking on IP ranges or anything like that. People are only getting errors about their connection having too high a latency. Something that using a proxy would not fix.
 
RoyMi6 said:
Hosted download link sent to you maxilive.

Actually, here's the link on their own website rather than downloading a dodgy EXE off me!

http://www.onlive.com/download/client/Setup.exe

Roy
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Haha, that didn't even work! Sorry mate we have just moved to RM filtering yesterday they have even blocked exes!! arggg. Still haven't give us login details to change the filtering policies.

Ah maybe if you zip it? :p
 
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RoyMi6 said:
They don't appear to be doing any blocking on IP ranges or anything like that. People are only getting errors about their connection having too high a latency. Something that using a proxy would not fix.
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Yeah that is exactly what I am getting every time I try, Ah well never mind heh back to FIFA & F1 on the xbox for now :)
 
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