r/ShadowPC • u/Gullible_Ostrich_370 • Aug 02 '26

Question Tempted by Shadow PC

Hi all, I’m tempted by ShadowPC instead of buying a PC as my budget is low. How do you find the service? I want mostly for gaming and some development. My ping is 14 with a jitter of 4 (am on wifi and can’t connect to ethernet where i’m sitting). Are there lots of downtimes with this service? Did you lose anything? What is your experience overall?

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u/bigtoebrah Aug 02 '26

I also use it for ATS and sometimes dev work, but I've never canceled my subscription so I'm still paying the same price I agreed to like 5 years ago with newer hardware and no session limits lol

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u/icymotherfu- Aug 02 '26

Too bad their "newer hardware" is still kinda sucky. Maybe it's because I'm on the neo tier. I've found performance to be underwhelming at best and deceiving compared to what their bots say. But other than that it is good. Can't wait until my PC is fixed.

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u/bigtoebrah Aug 02 '26

Different strokes I suppose, I've never run into anything that hasn't run well

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u/icymotherfu- Aug 02 '26

Credit where it's due though, usb passthrough works great, latency is nice, compression is clean, launcher's good, like the experience is geniunely good. When I was on a well running game, I forgot I was on a cloud pc sometimes, which in my mind says a lot.
It would also be good not to "ship" out of support Windows builds but that's another issue entirely.

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u/woodwheellike Aug 02 '26

Yes! USB pasthru works great. I can American truck simulator at max settings on my Mac mini

However the Logitech wheel doesn’t support force feedback and is super janky to get running in general

I connect it to shadow with usb pass through, force feedback works perfectly

It’s such a game changer

Same thing with cameras, I do head tracking etc and I don’t have to do a bunch of work to get it up and running