How to play new games on a weak computer

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Do you want to hack into game mega-hits, but your old PC does not pull them even at minimum salaries? We have a very cool life hack to solve the problem.

Computers can't afford

A major upgrade or buying a powerful gaming computer with today's ruble is comparable to buying a used car.

• Budget GeForce GTX 1060 + average Core i5 will cost about 40 thousand rubles.
• Average GeForce GTX 1070 + older Core i5K or younger Core i7K cost around 60 thousand rubles.
• The top GeForce GTX 1080 + revealing its older Core i7K will lighten the wallet by 80 thousand rubles or more.

We add a motherboard, cooling, RAM, SSD, case, power supply, monitor (in the case of the GTX 1080, they take a 4K screen, otherwise the meaning is lost), accessories, and the price of the initial configuration from the current components with a good backlog for the future reaches 80 thousand rubles … The middle peat is over 100-120 thousand. The cost of a top-end gaming build is even scary.

System requirements for games are growing, people do not have money for new computers or an upgrade, and the following statistics are obtained:

• Over the past three years, the share of eligible gaming computers and laptops in the population has declined from 23% to 5%.
• 76% of gamers are not satisfied with the power of their computers.
• 48% of gamers are deprived of the opportunity to invest in a computer upgrade, and only 6% of game fans can afford upgrades worth more than 20 thousand rubles.

What to do? Credit? The toad will strangle, the wife will not understand. It takes a long time to save, but I want to play now. Accept and play what the current computer pulls? No. Modern technologies come to the rescue.

Gaming PC as a Service

You use cloud storage, mail, instant messengers, social networks, and so on. Their work is provided by data centers. You send and receive data, and remote servers handle the processing and storage.

The service in question offers the same data centers, but for games. You play as usual, only the game is started and processed on a powerful server, sharpened for graphics.

And how, in fact, to play if the server is somewhere far away, and you are at home? Through the Internet, of course.

The user's computer sends control commands to the server, the server processes all this and sends back a video stream that even a very weak computer can handle.

Simply put, this is the most powerful gaming computer on a very, very long wire for rent.

In general, the idea of remote gaming computers was born a long time ago, but projects were dying for one simple reason: there was enough server power, but people did not have a normal Internet.

Without a wide network channel, it will not be possible to receive a high-quality high-resolution picture with a minimum ping, but now in any provincial town there is a fiber-optic Internet with a good ping. Even in our Ulyanovsk, providers offer 30-50 megabits per apartment for less than 500 rubles, and 5-10 megabits are enough for Playkey to work.

What about games?

Playkey supports, including all current single and multiplayer AAA bestsellers like GTA V, The Witcher 3, Fallout 4, Just Cause 3, Dark Souls III, Far Cry Primal, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, World of Tanks and other big hits. New items are added very quickly immediately after the release.

To play through Playkey, you will use your own game accounts on Steam, Battle.net or Uplay (Origin, unfortunately, is not supported yet).

Accordingly, if the game is paid or with a paid subscription, it must be purchased using your game account.

Reflection: Playkey is an official game distributor. When you buy or pre-order some games through Playkey, you can get nice bonuses like free play time or in-game goodies.

How to start using Playkey

1. Playkey.
2. Download and install the Playkey client on your computer.
3. Choose a tariff.
4. You play right away.

A special beauty is that the games are already installed on Playkey servers, that is, you do not need to download and wait.

Tariffs

The trial tariff "Training" includes 60 minutes of the game and costs only 70 rubles (or even 35 rubles, if there is a promotion). Ideal for reviewing and testing service quality.

A monthly subscription costs 590 rubles (or 390 rubles for a promotion when paying with a card or Yandex. Money) and includes 4,200 minutes of play (if divided by 30 days, it turns out 140 minutes a day - more than enough if you are not outright nerd). If the limit is exceeded, you can buy packages of 1,200 minutes for 200 rubles.

For hardcore players, there is a six-month subscription for 2,940 rubles with a limit of 4,200 minutes per month and the ability to buy 1,200 minutes for 200 rubles.

Can you really play?

As you can see, it is real. Even on a nettop, even on a MacBook. The sensations are wonderful, there are no interruptions, everything is smooth and detailed. The latency is the same as in any online game on a European server, and often even less, because, in addition to Germany and Ireland, Playkey has servers in Russia, and in particular in Moscow. It is very comfortable to play. The main thing is to have a normal Internet.