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we recently tested some of the major game streaming platforms and so far they

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all work a little bit differently some of them give you access to a library of

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games that you're effectively subscribing to play while others let you

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play your own games on their hardware

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now rainway is sponsoring this video to show you their free platform which

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simply streams your games from your pc

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using it as a server that means that unlike other cloud gaming services it

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actually works on ah there it is

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iOS and on xbox

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let's see just how many devices i can play my pc games on

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let's start by taking a look at the gaming pc that we're going to be using

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as our server we went out of our way to build something that's modern and

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capable of triple a gaming but not totally over the top so we've got a

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ryzen 7 3700x 8 core processor 16 gigs

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of RAM and a GeForce rtx 2070 super

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apart from those key specs the only other major consideration is your

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network connection i would never recommend running your game streaming

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server over wi-fi so a hardline Ethernet connection is

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a strong plus and if you're planning to stream outside of your home over the

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internet you'll obviously need an internet connection that has not only

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strong upload speeds but also low latency so a fiber connection would be a

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huge plus as well once you've got it installed one of the slickest things

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about the rainway dashboard is that it just automatically grabs all of your

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games and plonks them down into the games tab here so whether it's a game

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that has its own little launcher like minecraft java edition or whether it's a

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game that uses epic game store uh rockstar steam whatever it is it'll get

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grabbed by rainway and if it doesn't show up go ahead and hit refresh and if

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it still doesn't show up you can add it to steam as a non-steam game hit refresh

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again and you should be good to go now let's launch something from epic game

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store here world of goo we never even see an epic game store

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splash screen or anything like that just your game launches and you're ready

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to rock and after that though let's jump into what we came here for under the

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settings menu everything is laid out pretty darn simply under hardware you're

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basically just choosing whether you want to use software or hardware encoding if

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you have a dedicated GPU with a hardware encoder i would strongly recommend that

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you use that so we're going to use our rtx 2070 super under stream you

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configure the parameters of your stream so quality is pretty much the bit rate

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that you're streaming at and helpfully that's really nice they actually tell

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you exactly what bit rate their fast balanced and beautiful settings

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correspond to we're gonna go with beautiful frame rate lets you choose

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whether you want to run at 30 or 60 FPS this allows you to choose between a

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smoother gaming experience or less bandwidth if you're playing something

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like a card game for example where the frame rate doesn't really matter and

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then under stream scaling you can select a non-native resolution if you want to

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save some bandwidth there i mean maybe you're streaming to an extremely small

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screen where you don't actually need 1080p for example the rest of these you

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pretty much won't need except for experiments this is one of the things

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that really got me excited about rainway they allow you to enable ultra high

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bitrates which we've seen before 50 megabit per second is the limit of

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NVIDIA's n bank encoder but this is the other one

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ultra high frame rates so now we can go

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back into our stream settings and we've got what's this very pretty which is 25

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megabit per second and extremely pretty which is 50 megabit per second and we

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can actually set that's new uh they've been updating this

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in the time that i've been working on this video and yesterday this was capped

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at 120 FPS now apparently we can stream

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at 144. i don't have a device that actually has a 144hz display here at my

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house so we're going to settle for 120 but that's pretty cool without further

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ado now let's give the people what they came to see

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the ipad pro with an xbox controller

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playing pc games why don't we kick it off with

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shadow of the tomb raider you can see here that rainway works as a general

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purpose desktop so as i drag my finger around the mouse cursor is actually

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moving around on the monitor next to me it's not like that's something you'd

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necessarily want to use all the time if you're just into this for gaming but for

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games that have like a pre-launch splash screen like shot of the tomb raider it's

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nice to be able to go in make whatever configuration changes you want and then

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go ahead and launch just by tapping on it i would definitely recommend running

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rainway with vsync on it does add a little bit of latency but let's face it

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you're streaming over the network that is really smooth i can definitely see

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we're not getting a consistent 120 frames per second here i guess that's

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why it's an experimental feature but that is noticeably smoother than 60 FPS

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we can actually confirm this just by yep there we go when we swipe in you can see

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we're getting at around around 100 frames per second i mean that's why it's

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an experimental feature you can also see all the other stuff in the overlay so if

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you want to use an on-screen gamepad because you're using a phone or whatever the case may be then you can use that

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and you can also decide to cut off part of the frame if you want like a more

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immersive look to it personally i do not

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prefer the immersive mode i'd rather just have it letterboxed and see exactly

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as much of the content as intended but

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that's uh that's up to you it's kind of incredible their dashboard

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says we're getting anywhere from as little as four milliseconds to as much

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as 13 milliseconds of network latency then you go and you look at it okay

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let's just you know jump or do something the ipad pro compared to the monitor

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here i would believe we're looking at one to

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two frames of 120 FPS based on this difference like to the eye

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one of them isn't noticeably ahead of the other another cool feature of the

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overlay one that i'd actually like to see make its way to just the desktop

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launcher is that when you're in it you can quit the game just by pressing one

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button so many games you have to go through and do this whole dance

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rigmarole of like yes i want to exit to the main menu yes i'd like to exit the

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game even alt f4 doesn't work in some of them so it's really nice just to have a

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one button i'm done now thank you you've got autosave why do i need to go through

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all these menus now let's go ahead and fire up valorent

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for that i will need uh not a controller i know it's been years now but i am

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still so tickled that you can just plug a usb type c dongle into an ipad and

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boom you got a mouse sort of we'll get to that in a moment

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well there it is we got 102 rather than 120 FPS but that's

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running on an ipad pro sort of

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so apple still doesn't have the ability for apps to change from absolute input

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mode to relative input mode which means that our mouse cursor just

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moves around over top of the app and even if that weren't the case we would

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only be able to turn until the mouse that we can't see we're

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at the edge of the screen hopefully that will improve in the future but for now

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you're just going to have to see you can see the clicks register you're just

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going to have to go in only one direction and line up your shots like

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this which obviously is um pretty pretty stupid and nobody wants to do that

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obviously if valerian had gamepad support that would be an option either

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through the on-screen gamepad or through attaching one but as you can see it

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does not now let's try something new i'm pretty

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sure that i'm gonna need power into my usb dongle in order to power both a

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mouse and a keyboard but i think

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i may be able to game on this thing oh

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hey there we go we typing ladies and gentlemen

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oh wow that's something new yeah looks like we're gonna have the

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same issue on Android as we did on the ipad pro but the good news is that the

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rainway team is actually working on this one and hopefully keyboard and mouse

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capture on Android anyway should be a thing in the future

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besides the controller experience on Android is fine just fine the chopping

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takes forever i'm glad they rebalanced that

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well we'll load this up just in case another tomato order comes in get some

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of those onions chopping get out of my way

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oh not very good i mean the gameplay

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experience actually very good i just did not do very well because playing this

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one just by yourself is not that easy if you're not that into a separate

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bluetooth controller there are other options as well this is the razer kishi

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and this is a perfect companion for something like this let's go ahead and pop this

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off here just wedge that in there and we should be good to go yep oh no no no

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no man this is hard by yourself

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at least on this one you don't have to do dishes finally i want to try some

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good old-fashioned pc to pc streaming both of them are connected to a wired

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network and i'm going to go ahead and just launch rainway4web this one's limited to 60fps

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for now but our mouse support should actually be

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working so let's go ahead and fire up csgo again now the web app doesn't have

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the experimental options yet but from my experience in terms of

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inputs it was the most mature out of the bunch

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this is a game where i'm definitely more sensitive to input lag than i am in

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others and i think the guidance that has

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been with us up until this time for streaming games

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still remains when it comes to like twitch reaction competitive shooters

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it's not the greatest but in something like shadow the tomb raider or world of

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goo there was not a noticeable difference to

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be clear though it's not like this isn't playable like if i pick this up so you

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guys can see both screens they're very close it's amazing how far game

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streaming has come this review on the play store is great

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by meme guy worst useless application on play store you need to have a pc to play

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pc games on Android excuse me while i play pc games on Android if i have to

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own pc this app doesn't make any kind of sense no no no no it does make sense i'm

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just going to show you guys the pairing process for adding another device let's

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go ahead and link our account yes i've installed rainway on my pc we're going

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to go ahead and click add a device

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but ump then all you got to do is scan that qr

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code and you are ready to go so why not

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give it a shot they've got support for edge chrome safari or any chromium-based

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browser on mobile they can do iOS ipad os Android phones and tablets and for

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your tv they've got support for apple tv fire tv and Android tv they're gonna

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have support for xbox soon as well for you living room gamers out there so all

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that's left now then is to thank rainway for sponsoring this video checking out

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what turned out to be a pretty cool app especially considering that it's 100

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free download the dashboard today at rainway.com

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if you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out that recent video that i alluded to before having a look at some

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of the other streaming services that are out there none of them are quite like

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this one actually which is why hopefully they don't care that we

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suggested going and watching that video now after this sponsored video