I think it just comes down to what you need a cloud service for. Strictly for gaming alone, and in short sessions, services like Boosteroid or GeForce Now might be the better fit. But if you need a full fledged PC that can do all your day to day stuff and some gaming, with no session limits or hourly fees, then Shadow might be the better fit. I'm still waiting to see if any another cloud PC service can provide comparable performance to Shadow's at a better price point, but so far I haven't been able to find one. I use my Shadow as my daily driver PC now and the biggest benefits to me are the fact that it doesn't charge by the hour, the app is a breeze to use, I can access it on multiple lower end devices (cheap tablet, old low spec laptop, and phone), and if anything goes wrong with the hardware, it's not my problem to fix. Would I like it to be cheaper? Sure! And if another service comes out with comparable performance at a lower price point, I'll definitely check it out. But until then, Shadow seems to be the only game in town that can do what I want a cloud pc to do and doesn't charge by the hour.
It's a decent bit of software As it plays any game on pc what other services don't offer It's runs 4k with decent fps and it performs perfectly ignore the negative reviews Yea its exspensive but it works and works well It's not the most powerful machine but it shits all over xcloud and boosteroid Gfn is slightly better if you have the bandwidth The good mix is both services
3:46 you sure you didnt meant 8 instances ? because 32/4 = 8 . so as per your example , we would have 8 dedicated cores with SMT enabled , so 16 threads showing in task manager . unless they are keeping 16c/32t for the virtualization process which would make no sense to me as an hypervisor wouldnt need anywhere close to that to be able to run perfectly fine . hence my potential theory where they are running 7 vm's on a 4U chassis and keeping 16gb of ram and 8 threads for the hypervisor .
I have latency problems derived from the android app on smart TV, not even a hint of an answer after the many emails sent and questions asked in their forum. Boosteroid has real-time assistance, I answer almost instantly. I state that before making a test account with Shadow I asked for information several times but I did not get an answer.
I had it was ok,But I ditched it because of the way high price hike. Bought A gaming laptop and I don’t regret it and I don’t have to deal with latency issues to use shadow😊
smart man, i realy dont see the point of shadow might as well save that money and get yourself a gaming pc... I will be purchasing shadow for a while just for the simple fact in my cuurrent living conditions we aint allowed to have anything like this, but as soon as im out of here, good buy shadow
@@aztecanomexica13 I see it if you like to you multiple devices on different areas. Using Remotestreaming outside of your house can really be a pain. And especially worth it could be for Content Creatores and People working with the Hardware. You like to play a Game in 4k and stream it, but your local network is not good enough? No problem, you can lower your resolution while you are still streaming in 4k60hz You like to work for a longer periode of time on a really thin netbook? No problem, the hard work is done in shadow while you device stays calm and cool.
5:34 their cpu ? you mean the cpu which you only have access to one height of his compute power . that epic cpu in actual multithreaded workload is way better than you think and would easily beat a simple 16c/32t 7950x on am5 .
5:53 again , you are not comparing apple to apple . now , go to the bios and only keep 4 cores out of the 8 active while downclocking your ram to 2400 and see the difference in the same benchmark . that will be fair .
on the end note , if they would have kept the same cpu but offered us at bare minimum 6c/12t with 32gb of ram and a quadro a5000 (RTX 3080) , i would have said yes , jump on the upgrade . its just sad they missed the mark and hit the hay bale behind the barn . if you ask me , "if" you have the money and really dont want to pay for a local pc , that you are near western europe with a good ping to something like paris , go with their buisness offer for exactly the same thing as shadow ultimate , but , with a modern 3080 (RTX 5000) gpu a buff to a more modern cpu and potentially DDR4 , which i dont remember if their old xeon platform had it . if i remember its like 80 € per month without calculating for the additional storage space but if you are a die hard fan who which to be on a shadow ultimate equivalent no matter the cost , its your only option .
9:21 except i would never play in 1080 with dlss at balanced because youre rendering the game sub 720p so the upscale to 1080 looks like a pile of trash if you ask me . i know becuae ive tested cyberpunk at 1080p max settings on my geforce now ultimate tier at 75mbps bandwidth (aka the max) with dlss quality and it look disgusting . too much blur and texture muddiness .
It's on the same 1080Ti's that it had when I first got the service for a few months back in 2018.... think about that. Even though I'm sure some have been added or swapped out, Imagine using a GTX 1080Ti that's been used for up to 5+ years, nearly full-time, almost exclusively for gaming or 3D work. I just don't understand how this business model is sustainable. They couldn't afford to upgrade to 4070/4080's if they wanted to. At the very least, for modern games, they should be utilizing 2080Ti's if not 3070+.
Since it's too expensive to upgrade for more virtual SSD space from shadow to play installed games on Can I just install my games on my own external HDD connected to shadow and play games in shadow directly from my own external HDD Drive?
The Windows license is included so it's actually worth the £44.98. The Infinite tier was even more than this. I do hope they upgrade the base SSD storage however in the future. Also with the Power Upgrade I believe that any future upgrades will be on this tier.
@@tinkarobert windows doesnt need to get payed monthly and the one device private license also isnt that extremely expensive. But I'd say whats the competition of Shadow? GFN and Boosteroid clearly arent, because you cant use Programms and play Any Game you own but just a small amount of supported games. Its more comparable to those Rental Services where you pay a few cents/bucks per hour. So if you are a heavy user nothing is as cheap as shadow. But obviously thats only the case if you way of using the service can't be achieved with GFN or Boosteroid.
It's wonderful I've been with them since the preorder of the Shadow Ghost .. Don't forget you can run almost everything on everything 😅 I heard Raspberry Pi & Chromebook recently so if my Ghost dies then.. have a backup to use my tablet or phone.. I mean it's always impressive to me.. 😀 I've done 4k video editing on it .. and, running cities skylines is always hard work ..I used to Stream on Twitch and, play Skyrim heavily modded no hiccups that I could tell 😂 This is very interesting, I'm debating the power upgrade right now ..I don't know if I would even need it 😮
I would also subscribe to a high-end tier at Shadow if it remains affordable, I love Shadow, only hardware upgrades are really important to me
postcode is shown on shadow website in video incase that matters - great video!
I never even noticed thank you. Well if anyone wants to murder me they got a one in 7 chance of finding the right house first time round lmao 🤣
I think it just comes down to what you need a cloud service for. Strictly for gaming alone, and in short sessions, services like Boosteroid or GeForce Now might be the better fit. But if you need a full fledged PC that can do all your day to day stuff and some gaming, with no session limits or hourly fees, then Shadow might be the better fit.
I'm still waiting to see if any another cloud PC service can provide comparable performance to Shadow's at a better price point, but so far I haven't been able to find one. I use my Shadow as my daily driver PC now and the biggest benefits to me are the fact that it doesn't charge by the hour, the app is a breeze to use, I can access it on multiple lower end devices (cheap tablet, old low spec laptop, and phone), and if anything goes wrong with the hardware, it's not my problem to fix.
Would I like it to be cheaper? Sure! And if another service comes out with comparable performance at a lower price point, I'll definitely check it out. But until then, Shadow seems to be the only game in town that can do what I want a cloud pc to do and doesn't charge by the hour.
It's a decent bit of software
As it plays any game on pc what other services don't offer
It's runs 4k with decent fps
and it performs perfectly ignore the negative reviews
Yea its exspensive but it works and works well
It's not the most powerful machine but it shits all over xcloud and boosteroid
Gfn is slightly better if you have the bandwidth
The good mix is both services
3:46 you sure you didnt meant 8 instances ? because 32/4 = 8 . so as per your example , we would have 8 dedicated cores with SMT enabled , so 16 threads showing in task manager . unless they are keeping 16c/32t for the virtualization process which would make no sense to me as an hypervisor wouldnt need anywhere close to that to be able to run perfectly fine . hence my potential theory where they are running 7 vm's on a 4U chassis and keeping 16gb of ram and 8 threads for the hypervisor .
I have latency problems derived from the android app on smart TV, not even a hint of an answer after the many emails sent and questions asked in their forum. Boosteroid has real-time assistance, I answer almost instantly. I state that before making a test account with Shadow I asked for information several times but I did not get an answer.
Are you on a 5ghz wi-fi network?
@@tinkarobert no ethernet
I had it was ok,But I ditched it because of the way high price hike. Bought A gaming laptop and I don’t regret it and I don’t have to deal with latency issues to use shadow😊
smart man, i realy dont see the point of shadow might as well save that money and get yourself a gaming pc... I will be purchasing shadow for a while just for the simple fact in my cuurrent living conditions we aint allowed to have anything like this, but as soon as im out of here, good buy shadow
@@aztecanomexica13 I see it if you like to you multiple devices on different areas.
Using Remotestreaming outside of your house can really be a pain. And especially worth it could be for Content Creatores and People working with the Hardware.
You like to play a Game in 4k and stream it, but your local network is not good enough?
No problem, you can lower your resolution while you are still streaming in 4k60hz
You like to work for a longer periode of time on a really thin netbook? No problem, the hard work is done in shadow while you device stays calm and cool.
after the price hike i stopped.
5:34 their cpu ? you mean the cpu which you only have access to one height of his compute power . that epic cpu in actual multithreaded workload is way better than you think and would easily beat a simple 16c/32t 7950x on am5 .
Great video
5:53 again , you are not comparing apple to apple . now , go to the bios and only keep 4 cores out of the 8 active while downclocking your ram to 2400 and see the difference in the same benchmark . that will be fair .
on the end note , if they would have kept the same cpu but offered us at bare minimum 6c/12t with 32gb of ram and a quadro a5000 (RTX 3080) , i would have said yes , jump on the upgrade . its just sad they missed the mark and hit the hay bale behind the barn . if you ask me , "if" you have the money and really dont want to pay for a local pc , that you are near western europe with a good ping to something like paris , go with their buisness offer for exactly the same thing as shadow ultimate , but , with a modern 3080 (RTX 5000) gpu a buff to a more modern cpu and potentially DDR4 , which i dont remember if their old xeon platform had it . if i remember its like 80 € per month without calculating for the additional storage space but if you are a die hard fan who which to be on a shadow ultimate equivalent no matter the cost , its your only option .
9:21 except i would never play in 1080 with dlss at balanced because youre rendering the game sub 720p so the upscale to 1080 looks like a pile of trash if you ask me . i know becuae ive tested cyberpunk at 1080p max settings on my geforce now ultimate tier at 75mbps bandwidth (aka the max) with dlss quality and it look disgusting . too much blur and texture muddiness .
Yep the bottleneck is huge! It's already the same with shadow gtx 1080
That's boost teir
It's on the same 1080Ti's that it had when I first got the service for a few months back in 2018.... think about that. Even though I'm sure some have been added or swapped out, Imagine using a GTX 1080Ti that's been used for up to 5+ years, nearly full-time, almost exclusively for gaming or 3D work. I just don't understand how this business model is sustainable. They couldn't afford to upgrade to 4070/4080's if they wanted to. At the very least, for modern games, they should be utilizing 2080Ti's if not 3070+.
it seems to me that Shadows mid specs at over £55 per month is not worth it. £1500 would buy you the same spec PC.
Since it's too expensive to upgrade for more virtual SSD space from shadow to play installed games on
Can I just install my games on my own external HDD connected to shadow and play games in shadow directly from my own external HDD Drive?
No? Lol
5 Off Shadow PC with D0B1AAD
hey bro can you share your shadow with me also i want to try it would work for me or not
or you could go here and check for yourself: shadow.tech/requirements/internet-speed-test/
Wish it was a bit cheaper....
So expensive this shadow🤪🫣
The Windows license is included so it's actually worth the £44.98. The Infinite tier was even more than this. I do hope they upgrade the base SSD storage however in the future. Also with the Power Upgrade I believe that any future upgrades will be on this tier.
@@tinkarobert windows doesnt need to get payed monthly and the one device private license also isnt that extremely expensive.
But I'd say whats the competition of Shadow?
GFN and Boosteroid clearly arent, because you cant use Programms and play Any Game you own but just a small amount of supported games.
Its more comparable to those Rental Services where you pay a few cents/bucks per hour.
So if you are a heavy user nothing is as cheap as shadow. But obviously thats only the case if you way of using the service can't be achieved with GFN or Boosteroid.
It's wonderful I've been with them since the preorder of the Shadow Ghost ..
Don't forget you can run almost everything on everything 😅
I heard Raspberry Pi & Chromebook recently so if my Ghost dies then.. have a backup to use my tablet or phone.. I mean it's always impressive to me.. 😀 I've done 4k video editing on it .. and, running cities skylines is always hard work ..I used to Stream on Twitch and, play Skyrim heavily modded no hiccups that I could tell 😂 This is very interesting, I'm debating the power upgrade right now ..I don't know if I would even need it 😮