Xbox head Phil Spencer already testing Project xCloud game streaming on PC
It may land soon.
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Phil Spencer already testing Project xCloud game streaming on PC
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It's good that it's coming, but they're going to need to up the performance and quality a great deal to make playing these games palatable on PC. Xbox One hardware isn't going to cut it.
Care to elaborate in windows busted network stack? Genuinely interested to read about it.
Two biggest ways
1. Busted receieve window
2. Still lacks a queue mechanism that can compare and do what fq-codel or cake does in linux. Both can control latency problems well compared to anything else we have in networking, neither are present in windows.
How windows lacks in other areas.
By not having a feature like napi polling latency on a socket can't be kept as low as possible when it comes to latency
Not all nic drivers are equal and users never know if their wifi has airtime fixes or their ethernet has drivers where the buffer rings for data won't cause bufferbloat
Some offloads are still busted and often is better to disable than leave enabled
Stateful packet inspection mechanisms in windows are still know to cause lag vs being disabled
Cannot effectively pin your processors to services or wield them as well as well bsd/linux. This matters as anything multicore is served better letting one or two processors do all the work. You gain a benefit seperating your upload and download traffic on different cores in same numa node. Ideally if you 8+ thread 4 threads for each aspect of data transfer in networking would be best.
Recieve Side Scaling is still busted and only engages in high bandwidth transfers. In other OS you can have better implementations or feature that do the same regardless of network load
it's 2020 and it's pathethic that fixes meant at the start of the last decade for other OS aren't in MS premier desktop or console kernels.
I just want a way to play games on my laptop during downtime at work or while my daughter or wife are using the TV. It doesn't need to be flawless.
Mac OS client would be such a huge game changer.... I wonder if that would happen
I can see there being a web based client through Mixer. I think it's the only reason for why Microsoft is keeping Mixer going.
I wanna play the Gears of War games I haven't had a chance to play! :D