Hello. I was wondering if anyone heard of this company called Leap Computing. I only found it by accident buried under a heap of other links when i did a very specific Google search for cloud gaming computing.
From what i understand so far, they are in a beta phase, currently because of that the monthly subscription is half ($30) of what it otherwise will be. They have either a Nvidia GTX Titan X system at their disposal, or an unnamed AMD Radeon GPU that can be used. The complete hardware list that they say they have can be found here.
The questions/problems i am having right now are these: I have never heard of this company before, they were very hard to find (at least for me) and what they are offering seems a little bit... too good to be true? I mean a top of the line videocard, the option to install any game you want to install, 1080p and 60hertz streaming and all that for only $30 per month.... Is this actually real or some kind of scam? I mean they require you to immediately pay the $30 when you pre-order, without giving any indication anywhere when their service will actually be available to use. And if its not a scam, could they be promising more than they could perhaps deliver?
If what they are promising is real, is such a service possible to run with Elite Dangerous? I know that there could possibly be latency issues, drops in framerate when my internet is slow. But my current pc is crap, cannot run more than 10-15 frames per second, and that is only when on 720p resolution. With my current income it would take me months, if not up to a year to buy a better pc, and even than it would be nowhere as good as the one they are offering. So for me this would be a good option in the short term.
Anyone who has some more info about this company, and/or the techniques they use to do what they claim they can do? And is this at all workable with Elite Dangerous, and for example other videogames? Also, is something like this (where people can install games themselves on their hardware) even possible from a legal copyright standpoint?
From what i understand so far, they are in a beta phase, currently because of that the monthly subscription is half ($30) of what it otherwise will be. They have either a Nvidia GTX Titan X system at their disposal, or an unnamed AMD Radeon GPU that can be used. The complete hardware list that they say they have can be found here.
The questions/problems i am having right now are these: I have never heard of this company before, they were very hard to find (at least for me) and what they are offering seems a little bit... too good to be true? I mean a top of the line videocard, the option to install any game you want to install, 1080p and 60hertz streaming and all that for only $30 per month.... Is this actually real or some kind of scam? I mean they require you to immediately pay the $30 when you pre-order, without giving any indication anywhere when their service will actually be available to use. And if its not a scam, could they be promising more than they could perhaps deliver?
If what they are promising is real, is such a service possible to run with Elite Dangerous? I know that there could possibly be latency issues, drops in framerate when my internet is slow. But my current pc is crap, cannot run more than 10-15 frames per second, and that is only when on 720p resolution. With my current income it would take me months, if not up to a year to buy a better pc, and even than it would be nowhere as good as the one they are offering. So for me this would be a good option in the short term.
Anyone who has some more info about this company, and/or the techniques they use to do what they claim they can do? And is this at all workable with Elite Dangerous, and for example other videogames? Also, is something like this (where people can install games themselves on their hardware) even possible from a legal copyright standpoint?
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