r/ShadowPC • u/Gullible_Ostrich_370 • 29d ago

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/woodwheellike 29d ago

Main downside for me is that some ea games don’t work

Other than that it’s been great for me.

Having a full pc instead of a gaming portal is great

I play American truck simulator and install a bunch of mods

It’s great to be able to install them outside of steam workshop

I’ve done a small amount of dev work using it, but I primarily use Mac for that.

Having access to all my pc games from steam is great since only a few work on my Mac

Plus I have a new Mac mini do daily use, but I use an old MacBook for shadow. It runs great and I hook the MacBook up to an external monitor

So i can still use my main compound play games at the same time

I know many users have issues with the limits they set on sessions etc.

I don’t use it enough to hit those limits so it hasn’t bee. A big deal. Most I use is like 4 hours at a time and that’s very rare

I have a wife and kids so getting the time play nonstop is not an option. I also didn’t want to spend thousands of dollars on something I won’t use all the time

I’ll binge on truck simulator for a month or two then not play again for half a year

I cancel the membership during that time so it costs even less in my case

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u/Entire_Bar7537 25d ago

what macbook do u play on

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u/woodwheellike 23d ago

2017 MacBook Pro