What's the difference between cloud games and pc games?

What types of cloud games are there? Let's take a look at Bian Xiao's sharing today.

1, game streaming media

Game streaming media is an online game, which allows video games to be directly or on demand on computers, game consoles and mobile devices, similar to video on demand. The actual game is stored, executed and rendered on the server of a remote operator or game company, and the video results are directly transmitted to the user's computer through network streaming media. In this way, the configuration of the user's computer becomes less important, because the game is run and processed on the server. The game operation from the user is directly transmitted to the server, and then the server responds and sends the result to the user.

2. Point-to-point

Peer-to-peer (P2P) games are directly communicated by client devices, and do not need to reach the intermediate server first. The main difference between it and game streaming media is that peer-to-peer games run on real computers and stream media in a one-to-one way. Peer-to-peer games can effectively reduce interaction delay, because remote computers may be in the same local area network. When data is transmitted, it can be optimally routed through network protocols.

3, progressive download

Progressive downloading of cloud games (based on file stream) will run the actual game on the user's game device, such as mobile device, personal computer or console. Before the game starts, the client will download a small part of the game, usually no more than 5% of the whole game size, so that players can start the game quickly. The rest of the game content will be downloaded to the end user's device after the game starts. So even if the network bandwidth is low, there will be no big delay.

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What's the difference between cloud games and pc games?

1. The cloud game is played by connecting to the server online. Cloud games don't need a player's machine with high configuration, just a device that can connect to the network. When we play cloud games, we only need to download and install the corresponding cloud game software on the device, so we can play games on the device. We don't need to download games separately, and storing them in the cloud does not occupy local memory space.

2.pc games have high requirements for the configuration of players' own computers, and they need good configuration to have a smooth experience. PC games should be downloaded and installed on the local computer, which takes up a lot of memory space and the number of installed games is limited.