![]() ![]() Rainway – Performance & LatencyIt isn’t easy to measure Rainway’s performance empirically. I’m a dude, streaming a game, streamed from another game launcher, on another PC, through Rainway. At one point, I began to feel like Robert Downey Jr’s confused method actor from Tropic Thunder. I often had to use an Apple TV remote to close a pop-up window or relaunch a game on my host computer’s desktop. While Rainway’s interface and setup are simple enough, opening apps often displays your host computer’s desktop as the launcher loads. I could write an entire 1,000+ word review on this on-screen layout, but suffice it to say it works well enough, but – no surprise – the virtual buttons aren’t practical for serious gaming. You can pair a controller, use a nebulous “touch” control scheme that is seemingly designed entirely for point-and-click adventures, or display a semi-transparent on-screen button layout. “If you’re planning to stream your games predominantly on touchscreens, Rainway has three input methods. Recently, Rainway added the ability to link your Steam account and download any games that aren’t already downloaded right from Rainway, which is a nice, small feature for those setting up new computers. No matter what I tried, Rainway couldn’t load Hyper Scape. When games don’t appear, which only happened twice for me, the solution was to add to Steam as a non-Steam game. Occasionally, I had to refresh the client or open the games through their original launchers to get them to appear. It quickly pulled games from game launchers across Epic, Steam, Riot, and Uplay without being prompted. Rainway can automatically populate its tiles with the games installed on your host computer, and I was delighted by how well the feature worked. Sure, it’s a minuscule problem, but these tiny issues popped up enough times to make me wonder if the app proliferation had spread the development team a little thin. Meanwhile on iPad, the settings can only be scrolled through if you swipe up and down on a thin column of text – but not to its left or right. A quick reboot fixed the issue but disconnected the phone streaming from it. At one point on my host computer, I stretched my browser window and all my games disappeared from view. Answer See ResultsApp stability, too, is often determined by which device you’re streaming to.
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