tlniec
join:2004-08-02
Cedar Rapids, IA | reply to AstroBoy
Re: This is stupid! said by AstroBoy:Oh, and playing live real time video (game video) over the internet will not be reliable. A fraction of a second delay will be visible and really distracting. Normally video (movies) are cached on your device (PC) and you see the video delayed by 5 or more seconds. This can't be done with real time video games. You need virtually no delay or it will suck. Agreed. Some types of games are relatively insensitive to latency between inputs and seeing a response to those inputs on-screen. But many (e.g. shooters, driving, music/rhythm games) don't tolerate it so well.
Heck, I have seen people choose their gaming TVs/monitors on the basis of input lag -- and I imagine the differences there are probably in the single-digit milliseconds. My internet connection has an order of magnitude higher latency than that. |
