Sakuri playing Overwatch with high image quality in the virtual machine via the cloud, cost is 200 yen per hour with sense of feeling

As the graphics of the game become more and more high quality, the problem that it can not be played properly on a low-spec PC happens. Although PCs with hundreds of thousands of yen of initial cost can be played with any sort of game you can play with Saku that you are playing, it is the current situation that the threshold is high for those who "want to try that game for a while". In response to such a problem, attempts have been made to construct a virtual machine that handles high-spec game on the cloud, and even to conduct an intensive online battle with processing, and in fact, Sukapure using Overwatch via Microsoft Azure The movie that is doing is also made public.

Cloudy Gamer: Playing Overwatch on Azure's new monster GPU instances
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IPad visitor management application "EnvoyMr. Larry Gadea has posted an attempt to play games that require sophisticated processing on the Macbook via the cloud to the technical blog · Larry Land. In the past, I built a virtual machine on AWS's EC 2,Play Witcher 3I also made it successful.

According to Mr. Gadea, if it is an offline game, it seems that it was possible to play Sakuplake sufficiently with the EC2 virtual machine, but when it comes to streaming games and online matchups it was lacking specs. Meanwhile, Microsoft Azure for the first time in cloud services NVIDIATesla M 60 GPUIt corresponds toAnnouncementIt seems that he built a virtual machine that can play streaming games on Azure.

You can actually see Overwatch successfully succeeding in high quality 2560 x 1600 · 60 fps on Macbook via Azure from the following movie.

Playing Overwatch via Azure's new NV6 machines + Steam In-Home Streaming - YouTube


You can play Overwatch launched from Steam in Macbook via Azure's virtual machine. I can not see that the loading of graphics is disturbed during play and the movement of the character is not kicking at all and it is possible to reproduce the same experience as playing with a high spec PC.


MacBook is used as a machine for play in movies, but it also supports Linux / Windows machines. Mr. Gadea lists the procedure for building these environments from now, but as we continue to find improvements, the article will be updated.

The cost for realizing this environment is "1.14 dollar (about 119 yen) / hour" if it is 10 MBit / second in total, "1.96 dollars (about 204 yen) / hour" at 30 Mbit / s. It is a price using the Azure N series "NV 6" server, but since it is the price of the beta version, there is a possibility that it will be changed in the future. Although the recommended specification for playing Overwatch is 30 Mbit / s, it still achieves a low cost of about 200 yen per hour. Building a virtual machine on the cloud requires technical knowledge, but in the future it shows the possibility of playing high-spec games like a game center.