That the standard we agree on as a community. Once you do the math, combining the GameCube/Wii's triple buffer system, Vsync, and 60hz rendering, the input to display latency is about ~60ms. That means we increase the input latency on PCs to match what it would be on real hardware. But on PC, we can achieve faster than Console+CRT latency. For example, the Melee community plays on CRTs and real console. It wasn't ideal for fighting games but we were surprised at how well it worked.ĭepends on the netcode implementation and the standard agreed upon. TL DR: I think the host's geographic location and upload speed are both super important. Although my Seattle friend is definitely not sensitive to latency (I streamed a couple movies with her over discord and she never complained, then while talking about one once she mentioned how the audio was out of sync like it was just an incidental detail >_>), so I can't say for certain she didn't experience any. I've got gigabit and I hosted Genital Jousting for a while, and neither of them mentioned any latency or other issues. He's got a beefy computer and that's a very simple game with lots of flat colors, so I'm pretty sure his connection was the issue. We played Heave Ho! for a while, hosted by my other friend, and that worked mostly flawlessly except that there were a lot of slowdowns when things were moving quickly on on the screen. Unfortunately she's just starting the game so we never got to any really timing-sensitive challenges, but I could see that being an issue.

Last night I played Guacamelee with my Seattle friend, and the lag there was very noticeable but the game was still playable. Usually one of us in Boston is the host, and the lag for us is trivial to the point that as a casual fighting game fan I genuinely don't think I'd be able to tell the difference. Two of us are in the Boston area, one's in Seattle. My friends and I have been getting some good use out of it.

Steam remote play android