• Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        Why does the terrain take more (much more) bandwidth than a video stream?

        And what the heck do you mean they’re “streaming the terrain” surely it would be a one and done date transfer, much smaller than a live video packet stream, that amount of bandwidth is insane, you could do multiple 4k streams.

        • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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          15 days ago

          because 1) the figure in the headline is only the most extreme value they found. 2) the image generated by your GPU is only one perspective of the entire 3D environment. maybe in order to download the area you’re also downloading objects that don’t need to be displayed on your screen yet. And 3) cloud streaming videos are also heavily compressed.

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          15 days ago

          Because it is more data I guess ? Also probably has to use lossless compression, if it can be compressed at all. Whereas video compression algorithms are usually pretty damn lossy

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      15 days ago

      They’re streaming in the 3d world detail, but the rendering engine is installed locally.

      Playing on xCloud will just stream in the visuals that are rendered remotely, so a lot less bandwidth, but then you have the lag, and need a subscription.