Quoting: gbudny

Quoting: Arcadius-8606Missing the use a cloud service option

Unfortunately, I forgot to add this option, and I can't edit it now.

I don't use it, so I can't say too much about them. It's an interesting concept to sort out all of the issues differently.

I understand why people use them, but I always preferred to have a game for Linux installed/unpacked on my computer.

Of course, everyone could have a different opinion about it.

I mainly use them for online only games. I see no reason for a ONLINE MP game to have hard drive space on my machines.

Quoting: Arcadius-8606I mainly use them for online only games. I see no reason for a ONLINE MP game to have hard drive space on my machines.

Have you thought about using bigger and cheaper hard drives instead of SSDs for storing games on your computer?

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Quoting: Arcadius-8606Have you thought about using bigger and cheaper hard drives instead of SSDs for storing games on your computer?

What do you mean? The games that I own and play are small. The biggest game I own is 4 GB. I'm just not going to install an ONLINE ONLY game on my computer ever. It's browser based or nothing for me when it comes to those types of games.

Last edited by Mezron on 6 Apr 2022 at 2:08 am UTC

Quoting: Arcadius-8606What do you mean? The games that I own and play are small. The biggest game I own is 4 GB. I'm just not going to install an ONLINE ONLY game on my computer ever. It's browser based or nothing for me when it comes to those types of games.

I thought that also you don't have enough space to keep more games on your computer.

I decided to keep my two old hard drives in my main computer, which means 4 Terabytes only for games. In this case, I don't have to bother about how many games I installed on them.

I use an SSD for daily tasks and storing documents or other smaller files, but I'm cheap, so this SSD is only 500 GB.

Last edited by gbudny on 10 Apr 2022 at 2:22 am UTC

Quoting: gbudnyI use an SSD for daily tasks and storing documents or other smaller files, but I'm cheap, so this SSD is only 500 GB.

In a similar vein, I decided to buy a 240GB SSD to use on my Raspberry Pi 4 (over usb3) and it only cost £22 ($28 USD). Although it adds to the overall size of the Pi unit, the performance and reliability benefits far outweigh running with an SD card.

Quoting: gbudnyI thought that also you don't have enough space to keep more games on your computer.

I decided to keep my two old hard drives in my main computer, which means 4 Terabytes only for games. In this case, I don't have to bother about how many games I installed on them.

I use an SSD for daily tasks and storing documents or other smaller files, but I'm cheap, so this SSD is only 500 GB.

ah. I have plenty of SSDs. I get a good deal of them for free from business going belly up around me and with Microcenter near by. I have over 15 500 GB SSDs that were free from Microcenter alone when they mail out those Yellowclip coupons. A ton of free SD and 32 GB Flash thumb drives too.

I don't own many games. My entire collection combine it under 40 GB.

My main rig is a Raspberry Pi 4 - 8 GB. It's attached to 250 GB SSD and has a 1TB SD installed.

Quoting: g000hIn a similar vein, I decided to buy a 240GB SSD to use on my Raspberry Pi 4 (over usb3) and it only cost £22 ($28 USD). Although it adds to the overall size of the Pi unit, the performance and reliability benefits far outweigh running with an SD card.

Yes once you mount a SSD on your Raspberry Pi 4 you no longer suffer from all kinds of issues like the web video slow loading. Though I will say that Odroid XU4 has a better performance on SD by a long mile.

Last edited by Mezron on 11 Apr 2022 at 1:25 pm UTC

Quoting: Arcadius-8606

Quoting: gbudnyHave you thought about using bigger and cheaper hard drives instead of SSDs for storing games on your computer?

What do you mean? The games that I own and play are small. The biggest game I own is 4 GB. I'm just not going to install an ONLINE ONLY game on my computer ever. It's browser based or nothing for me when it comes to those types of games.

But, why? I don't understand.

Last edited by Cyril on 12 Apr 2022 at 7:40 pm UTC

Quoting: CyrilBut, why? I don't understand.

If a game is ONLINE only, why should I put it on my HD and deal with the space issues for a game that is dead to me when I am offline?

Chances are also that an online only game has DRM or anti-cheat....If it's that bad out here put it in the cloud and call it a day.

Last edited by Mezron on 13 Apr 2022 at 7:25 pm UTC

Quoting: Arcadius-8606

Quoting: CyrilBut, why? I don't understand.

If a game is ONLINE only, why should I put it on my HD and deal with the space issues for a game that is dead to me when I am offline?

Changes are also that an online only game has DRM or anti-cheat....If it's that bad out here put it in the cloud and call it a day.

I don't care myself, but my understanding is that other people are mystified by your game-playing use-case. Maybe if you clarified what you are doing it might satisfy peoples' curiosity.

My take on it is that you are playing simple browser games, rather than big PVP First Person Shooters. There is value to be gained in terms of frame-rate and mouse response times when you are playing a PVP game which is stored locally as opposed to playing it on a streaming service like Stadia, where the streaming causes some slow-down in the response.

Quoting: g000hI don't care myself, but my understanding is that other people are mystified by your game-playing use-case. Maybe if you clarified what you are doing it might satisfy peoples' curiosity.

My take on it is that you are playing simple browser games, rather than big PVP First Person Shooters. There is value to be gained in terms of frame-rate and mouse response times when you are playing a PVP game which is stored locally as opposed to playing it on a streaming service like Stadia, where the streaming causes some slow-down in the response.

The browser based games that I play are Destiny 2, The Division 2, surviv.io, tetr.io, Super Bomberman R Online, Piepacker (various games) and Animal Royale.

I find no benefit to me as a consumer or gamer to be installing ONLINE ONLY MP only games. I do a lot of DM in Destiny 2 and have not had an issue with slow downs and response issues but I hear that can be a thing for many people.

Prior to all of this I just stayed away from ONLINE ONLY MP games. I gave them a shot when more and more PVP/CO-OP games came out for the browser.

If I can't play it offline, I don't want it on my HD.

Last edited by Mezron on 13 Apr 2022 at 7:30 pm UTC

I play it in Wine / Proton etc. And I don't mind playing games there if they perform better than native versions which can happen.