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Ever since the days of onlive, I've been excited by the concept of cloud gaming and have enjoyed seeing how different and new companies have set up their own rent.

A PC service's cloud gaming is basically that for a fixed or monthly fee, you get access to a powerful PC of either cloud and using your Internet connection constrained the games from said PC to your personal set up, which might not be able to run the games that you want to play.

Otherwise, this is an ideal service for anyone who can't really afford to upgrade their system that at the same time, some would argue that instead of pain to rent a PC, you could just save that money and buy the components yourself.

That isn't always as easy as some seem to suggest, though, especially if you live somewhere with overinflated hardware prices.

It's those who may find the idea of cloud gaming even more appealing.

A while ago you may remember, I reviewed G force now invidious cloud gaming service, currently still in beta.

It was pretty decent, but access is still limited and final pricing is yet unannounced at the time of this video, Of course.

Recently there, in my Facebook news feed has been filled with ads regarding a service named Shadow for £26.95 a mouth or the equivalent in your selected currency.

You get access to an eight threaded Z on based PC, with 1/4 A P 5000 GPU and 12 Gigs of Ram.

What's pretty cool is that you also get access to the company's superfast fibre Internet connection.

This is beginning to sound like a sponsored video, and I'm sorry, but I can assure you it is not.

If I pay for the service is myself.

I could be sure I'm not getting any special treatment and guarantee any testing I do is wholly accurate.

So how does this work then?

Well, after signing up for the cancel anytime monthly payments, you can download the shadow clients and jump straight into set up.

The first time you do this on your desktop, you'll have to run through the windows configuration because, as I said before, you're streaming a whole PC from the cloud, not just the games.

What's great about this, then, is that you aren't limited to gaming.

You could essentially install Premiere Pro and make use of the powerful Z on CPU for editing.

Once I got to the desktop, I ran a quick speed test and I saw numbers I have only ever dreamed off beforehand for comparison, his my Internet connection when not using shadow Yeah, natural download speed is more like 1.3 more on this later there because, as you can imagine, it's quite an important factor.

My next move was to log into steam, and sure enough, it took just a couple of minutes to download one of my old favorites.

Fallout New Vegas Blade, the company behind Shadow, recommend at least a 15 megabit per second connection to play and say the service is compatible with fire.

But D s L four g f in it and WiFi.

First of all, I tried shadows game streaming over my disastrous WiFi.

As you can see, this is the result.

This isn't a screen shot.

By the way, you'll see something move in a minute and then downloaded resident evil from my library.

And once again, my connection made the whole experience a pretty bad one.

This can't be blamed on Blade, though, obviously, but it was clear I'd have to sort out faster Internet from somewhere and retry.

I decided to go to my mom's house where there's fiber on this little fella.

Obviously, I couldn't take my PC with me, so I decided to see how things would play out on my Lenovo laptop as well as my four g phone.

So the first thing I did here was, ah, fire up my laptop and download you play before installing the crew to know I chose this one because it can be quite awkward to run on some hardware.

It's not that fantastic looking, but it will give some components around for their money.

However, with this Z on on Quadra P 5000 based computer, this cloud computer, of course, it did run with a pretty solid 60 frames per second.

What I was more interested in as I'm sure you are, though, is the actual streaming quality.

Now the download speed of my moms is obviously quite a bit better than at my grandparent's house, but interestingly, we still saw a few hitches and status here and there.

The streaming experience was by no means perfect, and the quality you see on screen is pretty much the quality of the image that I was getting.

It's been directly recorded with a capture card, so what you see here is pretty much what you'll get on a similar connection to this one.

This is just a BT fiber optic connection here in the UK So, of course, once again your experience may vary.

Aside from the occasional hiccup, it run pretty much flawlessly, and it would certainly be a welcome improvement to anyone out there who like me in this situation, was running it on a laptop with integrated intel H D graphics.

These graphics that, in all fairness on some occasions would have trouble playing even the most basic of games with smooth frame rates.

But here it's a pretty good experience.

So, of course, we must also talk about multi player because this is a big part off some people's game library multiplayer online games such as Overwatch, for example.

Now there's a couple of different things I want to mention here.

One is that multiplayer games will run the same.

There will be some graphical hitching onda status, like I say on my Internet connection results will vary.

Of course.

This can, of course, be detrimental to online multiplayer games, where fast reactions are a must.

So if you're about to say shoot someone, you get a lag.

It's not gonna work out very well for you.

Another thing as well isn't just regarding the game, but titles like Overwatch.

I believe it goes against the policies off Blizzard.

To use cloud gaming service is to run your games, and it can get you banned.

Or so I've heard.

So it isn't always the great idea to run online games using cloud based service is.

And of course, that's a disadvantage that doesn't even involve the stability of the game play itself.

If you're gonna get banned from using an online service, then it may not be worth it for you.

In fact, it certainly doesn't seem worth it all.

In that respect, just know that, like single play games, if you are getting Stater's and hitches, then this will carry across to multi player games as well, because is totally reliant on your Internet connection.

But how does shadow cloud gaming run on a phone?

Well, I fight up my cheap android device to test out just that in both for G and WiFi.

So I downloaded the shadow out from the Google play store.

But as you can see here, after attempting to play the game on forgery, the signal was far too inconsistent.

Now actually get maximum bars or maximum coverage at my mom's house with four G.

But still, it wasn't really enough to maintain a smooth frame rate when we tried the same thing on mobile phone over WiFi instead.

Then it worked flawlessly.

I was able to play Skyrim here with no issue aside from the usual occasional frame rates and stutters that er due to the Internet connection being used.

But I have to say, All in all, those were less frequent here, and I found myself playing this for a couple of hours straight.

No problem.

You sort of forget that you're playing it over a cloud gaming service, and it's things like that that make such a platform pretty cool.

I think overall, I think I'll gaming has certainly come a long way.

I remember back to the early days of On Life, the cloud gaming service that I mentioned to start this video.

I used to have a 4 33 180 you in my system.

So I know what it's like to try and run games and get nowhere, especially when it came to modern Triple eight titles.

Sure, they would run it very reduced settings.

But the fact I had a pretty fast Internet connection and on live on my PC meant I could play some of my favorite titles of the time.

Liked out three with respectable and smooth frame rates on Live in Itself was nowhere near perfect.

It used to drop out occasionally on Dhe.

The game library itself was quite limited, but I really liked it and I could certainly see a future.

And it was definitely a taste of things to come when all I've disappeared.

We didn't really hear much in the way of cow gaming for a while, and I thought that was a bit of a shame, because I thought the concept itself was pretty revolutionary, especially for those of us with slightly weaker and systems like laptops with integrated graphics or peces with near ancient processes.

Shadow is certainly one of the best cloud gaming service is I've used which is nice, innit?

Certainly, I think, paves the way for the future of Coward gaming, which I feel has a big part in the world of PC gaming.

Overall, there are a few problems.

As I mentioned on.

As you've seen throughout this video, streaming isn't perfect.

There will be a few frame drops, even on a pretty speedy Internet connection on DDE.

With some countries implementing certain data caps, it's not going to be completely accessible by some.

People may also think that the price is pretty expensive.

I thought that at first, but when I realized I was paying more amount on my mobile phone contract, which I hardly ever make you soft, to be honest, it started to seem a little bit more reasonable in mind.

Mind I would have to say, Try out if you can give it a go but it certainly needs a little bit more work to make it perfect.

I've really enjoyed my time with the Shadow Cloud Gaming Service, but maybe I'm a little bit biased.

I mean, I love the concept of cloud gaming and bringing peace and gaming to those of you who may not have had a chance to play such games before.

I don't want to ramble on too much now, so I'm gonna leave it to you.

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