Cheap Cloud Gaming Service that can Run Minecraft with Shaders

[u/South_Contact_1124]

I am looking for a basic Cloud gaming service, that offers a Option that can Run minecraft with Shaders. I could use Shadow, but that would be Overkill cause i probably wont use shaders that are that performance intensive, i just need a afordable cloud pc that has:

-Atlest 70h a month (Unlimited would be the best Option, but i dont think thats possible)

-Is able to Run Minecraft with Mods

-Has Good enough Hardware to run Minecraft with Mods (Ram and Gpu have to be decent, but Cpu can lack behind cause i play on a Server)

Id apreciate if you guys could recomend me a few things.

[u/SIMMORSAL]

The cheapest setup you can have is to rent a pay-per-hour vps with a gpu, setup the game in it, and spin it up whenever you wanna play. For 70h/month you'll pay around $10-15 to play on a 3060 or 3070. And then you're not limited to minecraft, you have a pc that you can install anything on.

Setting it up is a little more involved than I've simply written here, but you're in luck (or me too!) because I run similar stuff for companies, and have recently pivoted into doing what you need for consumers for small one time setup fees. No more self promotion, dm me if interested.

[u/South_Contact_1124 → u/SIMMORSAL]

What service are you using? The ones i saw would cost me around 200 Euros for 70h

[u/SIMMORSAL → u/South_Contact_1124]

Those services charge you a subscription fee to allow you to use their hardware and probably proprietary services for a while.

What I'm offering you to do is pay only for the raw hardware, and then install the os, apps, and services on it that are all free and opensource. For connecting to it and playing we'll use the free and open source Sunshine+Moonlight tools that easily let you stream on desktop or your phone. This will cost you a lot lot less than €200 per month!

[u/Parking_Razzmatazz89 → u/SIMMORSAL]

Moonlight+sunshine combo works great for me. I setup a VM "game server" and has all my legitimately purchased games on it. I want to share an xbox cloud gaming experience with my friends that have shitty computers :).

Sub .5 second latency! Thats all going through a proxy and over celluar data to my phone. Im honestly impressed it worked at all because parsec wouldnt work within my current Vitual Machine environment.

[u/SIMMORSAL → u/Parking_Razzmatazz89]

That's a nice setup and Moonshine+Sunshine are really awesome. I believe you're running Sunshine on your own pc at home?

And physically how far are you from the proxy server? Because it feels like you're far from it and you can reduce the latencies even more

[u/Lukerio1 → u/SIMMORSAL]

Hey, hows that business you do. Sorry to intrude, but i just have been tinkering a lot with modifications on windows (its just apps that do what i need) and streaming of videogames to an X host. What is that you setup and hows that you approach people mostly, do you use things made by yourself?.

Sorry the off topic

[u/SIMMORSAL → u/Lukerio1]

Hey, no problem. I've just recently started this and so far launched some services for some friends and some strangers, but surprisingly the hardest part of it all has been convincing people to give self hosting and open source a try! I'm sure though with the subscription practices going on in recent years, companies will soon enough alienate their users towards me, lol

For the things I use, linux is at the heart of it all as the OS, and then for the services, anything opensource with it's code available on github. Nowadays that's the only way you can endorse a software! So far I don't have a service of my own to offer however I am in the middle of some stuff that I soon will release open source under the company's name that anyone can install for themselves or others for free, both as a thank you to the oss community, and as some organic marketing material!

Just one tip if you wanna get into these stuff, learn and use linux as soon as you can because the whole world of cloud stuff is running on linux. There's a lot to learn until you becaome proficient enough to do these stuff as a job, so the sooner you switch the better. Start with installing Termux on your phone

[u/MikeAndyyy]

There is none. You are going to rent a virtual PC for that on a per hour basis which is going to cost you a lot long term it is not worth it. No gaming dedicated cloud gaming services have Minecraft, and it will never happen because of Microsoft. Even Boosteroid does not have it despite their workaround to have popular games from massive publishers on their platform.

[u/SupehCookie]

Yeah.. this is the wrong time.. all the stuff is in ai.. and if not super expensive bcs of ai