• GladiusB@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Oh really? I thought we just viewed it in a cloud based system and we only put it on our system if we choose to. Interesting.

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      6 months ago

      Even if that were true, how would your device display anything without downloading it first? In your example, your device is the end point for the cloud based system, which means it downloads from the cloud.

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        6 months ago

        I don’t know enough about cloud based systems. I thought you were just viewing it. Such as all the work was done sever side and very little client side. I am not a software engineer. I just play games and have an idea of what’s going on.

        This person in question viewed it many times and that is not “accident”. Which is exactly my point.

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          In reference to cloud gaming, that’s more akin to watching a live video stream. Your device may not be doing the processing to generate the video, but it is still streaming (live downloading) the video. Whether it decides to store that video is up to the device’s settings. But it is 100% downloading the video in order to display it.

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            6 months ago

            I hear ya. I misunderstood the mechanism. I thought it was more of a pass through.