It took a bit of tweaking to get things just right for my TV, but once I did, everything looked as it should.
(Desktop platforms have more experimental options, while the Ghost is a bit more bare.) If you’re hooking the Ghost up to your TV, you’ll want to follow the same best practices you would for any other PC-like setting your TV to Game Mode, naming the input “PC” so it doesn’t overscan, and making sure the color rendering matches your TV (RGB Full or RGB Limited) so things look right. You can set your bandwidth, so it knows how much to compress the video stream, as well as adjust the video codec and the color rendering. Shadow Ghost – SoftwareThe Shadow software, which is similar across desktop platforms (Windows, macOS, and the Ghost), presents you with a dark window sporting a few options for customizing your connection. I tested the service on the Ghost as well as multiple Windows PCs and my iPad, and the service was pretty consistent across all of them (at least, on my home network-more on that later.
At the time of this writing, Shadow is available in all US states except Washington, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Alaska, and Hawaii-though Shadow says they’re going nationwide “soon.” Shadow is also available for most major platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux (in alpha), Android, and iOS-so when you’re done playing on your Ghost, you can pick up where you left off on just about any device.
If you install and reinstall a lot of games, that’s pretty awesome.
Since the host PC is connected to Shadow’s gigabit internet, your games download to the host in mere minutes, so you can get playing right away (with your Steam Cloud saves, no less). You pay $35 per month, and just hook a mouse, keyboard, and/or gamepad up to the Ghost, and it’ll send your inputs back to the host PC, which is running an 8 thread Intel Xeon CPU, An NVIDIA GTX 1080 (or equivalent Quadro), 12GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and an insane internet connection.
It’s about the Shadow software that runs your games on a server, sending them to your Ghost in the form of streaming video. But the Ghost isn’t really about hardware. Their marketing boasts the energy conservation is a money-saving prospect, but at the end of the day, we’re probably talking tens of dollars over the long haul, not hundreds of dollars, depending on where you live and the cost of electricity.
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