OnLive now FREE and WORKS in the UK!

ic1male · 13 Oct 2010 at 13:27

andshrew said:
I was really impressed by the ability to spectate other peoples games (I think I may have even spectated your game, ic1male, the other night when I was trying it out).

Oh yeah! I did notice someone pop up very briefly. That was when I was playing Borderlands I think with my laptop trackpad! Aiming was all over the shop.

maxilive · 13 Oct 2010 at 13:39

ic1male said:
OK, so it is 2am in the morning and transatlantic traffic might be low but I just tried this again on my Windows 7 laptop instead of Mac OS X. I noticed I got a new option saying about a wi-fi beta so I selected that.

OnLive started straight up into the application and I spent a good ten minutes without a single video compression artifact, no warnings about lag or latency throughout the entire time. It worked perfectly.

Hmm if I can find that wi-fi setting thing I might give this another go

Never been able to connect due to my ping as Sky adds some protection to packets (forgot the technical name

) which adds another 20ms or so.

PiKe · 13 Oct 2010 at 13:40

maxilive said:
Hmm if I can find that wi-fi setting thing I might give this another go Never been able to connect due to my ping as Sky adds some protection to packets (forgot the technical name ) which adds another 20ms or so.

Interleaving.

ic1male · 13 Oct 2010 at 13:42

It just asked me a few seconds after I clicked the sign-in button.

maxilive · 13 Oct 2010 at 14:01

PiKe said:
Interleaving.

Thats it!

Oh, thanks for the picture to bad I haven't got a wifi card to test it on!

buchtis · 13 Oct 2010 at 15:19

Registered and it's not letting me play, wtf.

Nymins · 13 Oct 2010 at 18:40

Anyone using this on a sub 10mb connection? Haven't connected once on my 5Mb O2 LLU line.

BassPunk · 14 Oct 2010 at 15:46

not working on 8mb BT

massive ping spike observed before saying high latency

norm · 14 Oct 2010 at 16:41

Doesn't work on Sky with ~30ms UK ping.

ic1male · 14 Oct 2010 at 16:50

Are you guys that are trying to run it

a) Ceasing all other network activity and
b) Trying a few times?

TriedandTested · 14 Oct 2010 at 16:55

No, works every time with VM. For me at least.

d_brennen · 14 Oct 2010 at 16:58

Works fine for me at work on my BT Buisness 20mb adsl line, doesn't work at home on my VM 8mb adsl

Kutter · 14 Oct 2010 at 18:45

Holy crap ! this works a treat been playing mafia 2 on the wifes crap laptop, and i mean crap !

I think i may get this when i get my new house sorted out, get their console thingy and play on 60" tv

very very impressed

stoke1863 · 14 Oct 2010 at 18:49

Are there plans to put servers in the UK?

I saw a video where they had an ipad client and were using an ipad to play Boderlands it was cool looking

ic1male · 14 Oct 2010 at 18:50

stoke1863 said:
Are there plans to put servers in the UK?

Yeah - this is partly why we are able to access it before it's officially launched here. They're starting to launch a roaming system (currently aimed at US consumers) so they can log in from anywhere when they go travelling and still play their OnLive games.

stoke1863 · 14 Oct 2010 at 18:54

i cant connect with 11mb 02 broadband

NeoReloaded · 14 Oct 2010 at 19:59

Signed up! Can i play any free games/demos or anything? Can't see jack

ic1male · 14 Oct 2010 at 20:03

NeoReloaded said:
Signed up! Can i play any free games/demos or anything? Can't see jack

Yes, every game on there has a 30 minute time limit for which can play from the start, for free.

JaFFa · 14 Oct 2010 at 21:16

It's good but game prices need to come down and obvious lag issues need fixing for UK. Did like how slick it was though and how it immediately used my 360 pad when i turned it on wit all the buttons mapped and telling me on screen what they did for the pad.

OriginalJonty · 14 Oct 2010 at 22:12

Very impressed with it. Played a bit of Mafia 2 and on a laptop that struggles with games. This service is ace and it'll be great once there are dedicated UK servers.