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by WildGreenLeave 754 days ago
I've been using Parsec on my local network for several months now and I see absolutely no latency whatsoever. GFN and any streaming provider gives me a very small but noticeable lag in shooters, but Parsec on my home network is genuinely perfect. I game from my Macbook and I play whatever I want from my homeserver (3090 and 4060) in another room. Both my Macbook and computer are wired of course. Important to note is that I needed a dummy HDMI on my computer for a 'true' screen, any kind of virtual screened caused it to lag hard, probably because the game or stream ran without any kind of hardware acceleration.

I have to say, I love the way Parsec works and allows you to use your whole library (since it doesn't stream the game, but it streams your whole desktop). But if there is ever a service that allows you to get the same thing including remote servers (since I travel), I would probably switch.
2 comments
softfalcon 754 days ago
Appreciate the details you’ve provided!

I’m going to do some more Parsec experiments this weekend thanks to your info.

Something is clearly wrong with my setup, I’m going to figure it out.

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WildGreenLeave 754 days ago
I'm not a professional myself either, but the things I would check are:

- Make sure you run hardware acceleration, you can see if this is applied after opening a connection and checking the details. Without acceleration it will be terrible. This can either be as simple as enabling it or possibly you need the monitor below.

- Make sure a monitor is plugged in (there might be a way around this, but I just bought a $4 HDMI dummy instead of trying to figure out how to do this the software way)

Edit: formatting

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WithinReason 754 days ago
In my experience if both sides are wireless the connection quality is terrible, no matter how good the signal is.
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softfalcon 753 days ago
Yeah, everything here is 2.5G ethernet end-to-end. I don't think that's the issue. :)
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killingtime74 754 days ago
I also enjoy Parsec at home (and for non gaming remote desktop). For some reason outside of home (I'm travelling to a city 10ms away) it's not as good
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