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OnLive Experience Day 3: It's all about the game...

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 I know it's been a weekend but I needed the time to be able to play some of the games on OnLive to really get the true feel of it. So I thought it would be best try 2 games, 1 game I'm familar with and the other I'm not. So the games I decided to were Borderlands, which I own on steam, and Batman: Arkmym Asulym a game that my computer can't even run. Also these 2 games give me the chance to best use my KBAM and Controller (Gamestop Xbox 360 Controller ) so I get the feel how the system is supposed to work. 2 games seemed good becuase of the percise aiming that BL can use and combo system Batman and being a SSFIV nut timing to me is EVERYTHING.
 
Before we start I figured that everyone should know what Kind of PC I'm running. 
 
CPU: Intel Core Duo 6300 
Ram: 2 gigs Corsair XMS 2 DDR 800
Hard drive: 2 x250 SATA 7200
Video card:  Nvidia 9400 1gig. EVGA
OS: Windows 7, rating 4.9 
Monitor: LG Flattron W2353V (23 inch LCD)
  
I  also test it out on a Apple Macbook Pro (Intel Core Duo 2ghz)
 
I have Cox Communication handling my Internet here in San Diego and it runs at a modest 6mbps.
 

...No rest for the wicked, ugh that's a dumb song.

So last time I touched Borderlands was right before the The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC came out. So that's a good 5 months. I took the steam version out for a spin and my Brick was still decked out in a few epics though I'm not much of a loot nut in this game because of the easy leveling curve but I digress. The game is as fun as I remember, I joined a few matches as expected little to no problems and even found some of my old buddies still trolling around playing which was fun.. With a good 3 hours under my belt I was able finally reacquint myself with the game and how it played and looked so the it was time to move over to the OnLive version.. 
 
Immediately 1st thing I noticed was the big graphical difference. No it wasn't worse but better. I can only Run Borderlands at an acceptable Frame Rate if I'm running it at 800x600 with the settings mid-low range.. So being able to play it at 1280x720 made it a nicer. Textures were more detailed though not particularly sharper. Then again I run my monitor natively at 1920x1080 so there is a "stretch" factor. The Apple Laptop ran it surprisingly well sadly though the wifi does not work at all so it was a bit of a pain to have to hard wire a laptop when it's intention is to be portable. But when wired up it ran and looked even better but that is also in the case of running that monitor at a lower resolution than my pc's monitor. 
 
The controls worked satisfactory. I picked a Hunter specfically to have really percise aiming with sniper rifles and such. Now, I did try Borderlands OnLive before this and felt the mouse being not as responsive but after dinking around with my Steam version I did see that the mouse issue wasn't an OnLive issue but a Borderlands one. It's not bad but the mouse in that game, to me, felt not as responsive as I have experienced in other FPS like CS.S or TF2. So seeing that it controlled similarly was reassuring. Now I do say similarly because there was an ever so slight lag difference, more than I was used to. I did adjust accordingly however and I didn't really notice it after level 15. I can only expect the controls to get better over time as the backend gets improved.  
 
The sessioning was way better than I expected. I played for a good hour before I took a break and during that time I didn't have any issue with the streaming. No hiccups, distortions or timeouts during the experience. I also had it running while streaming some world cup games with no issues. I came back at various times during the day (6 am, noon, 6pm and midnight) and the experience was the same with longest session last about 2.5 hours. I left myself spectating another user and that was the only time I was disconnected from the service. I'm not entirely sure if the game being played would affect how the magic happens and as more popular games get implement if that would effect game place  
 
After some time and $6 poorer I was really damn happy with how Borderlands played. It was a substantial upgrade from what I was running natively though I did miss being able to tweak out settings and FOV and other settings I had on my steam version. Ultimately though, I was doing all those tweaks because I was trying to get a better performance out of my machine and in this case it wasn't neccessary. I also couldn't find out if the DLC packs were already included in this version of the game and if not how they were going to be included as well as future packs. So many questions but I'm sure time will tell.. Check back tomorrow for my Batman write up.. Thanks for checking in..     
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 I know it's been a weekend but I needed the time to be able to play some of the games on OnLive to really get the true feel of it. So I thought it would be best try 2 games, 1 game I'm familar with and the other I'm not. So the games I decided to were Borderlands, which I own on steam, and Batman: Arkmym Asulym a game that my computer can't even run. Also these 2 games give me the chance to best use my KBAM and Controller (Gamestop Xbox 360 Controller ) so I get the feel how the system is supposed to work. 2 games seemed good becuase of the percise aiming that BL can use and combo system Batman and being a SSFIV nut timing to me is EVERYTHING.
 
Before we start I figured that everyone should know what Kind of PC I'm running. 
 
CPU: Intel Core Duo 6300 
Ram: 2 gigs Corsair XMS 2 DDR 800
Hard drive: 2 x250 SATA 7200
Video card:  Nvidia 9400 1gig. EVGA
OS: Windows 7, rating 4.9 
Monitor: LG Flattron W2353V (23 inch LCD)
  
I  also test it out on a Apple Macbook Pro (Intel Core Duo 2ghz)
 
I have Cox Communication handling my Internet here in San Diego and it runs at a modest 6mbps.
 

...No rest for the wicked, ugh that's a dumb song.

So last time I touched Borderlands was right before the The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC came out. So that's a good 5 months. I took the steam version out for a spin and my Brick was still decked out in a few epics though I'm not much of a loot nut in this game because of the easy leveling curve but I digress. The game is as fun as I remember, I joined a few matches as expected little to no problems and even found some of my old buddies still trolling around playing which was fun.. With a good 3 hours under my belt I was able finally reacquint myself with the game and how it played and looked so the it was time to move over to the OnLive version.. 
 
Immediately 1st thing I noticed was the big graphical difference. No it wasn't worse but better. I can only Run Borderlands at an acceptable Frame Rate if I'm running it at 800x600 with the settings mid-low range.. So being able to play it at 1280x720 made it a nicer. Textures were more detailed though not particularly sharper. Then again I run my monitor natively at 1920x1080 so there is a "stretch" factor. The Apple Laptop ran it surprisingly well sadly though the wifi does not work at all so it was a bit of a pain to have to hard wire a laptop when it's intention is to be portable. But when wired up it ran and looked even better but that is also in the case of running that monitor at a lower resolution than my pc's monitor. 
 
The controls worked satisfactory. I picked a Hunter specfically to have really percise aiming with sniper rifles and such. Now, I did try Borderlands OnLive before this and felt the mouse being not as responsive but after dinking around with my Steam version I did see that the mouse issue wasn't an OnLive issue but a Borderlands one. It's not bad but the mouse in that game, to me, felt not as responsive as I have experienced in other FPS like CS.S or TF2. So seeing that it controlled similarly was reassuring. Now I do say similarly because there was an ever so slight lag difference, more than I was used to. I did adjust accordingly however and I didn't really notice it after level 15. I can only expect the controls to get better over time as the backend gets improved.  
 
The sessioning was way better than I expected. I played for a good hour before I took a break and during that time I didn't have any issue with the streaming. No hiccups, distortions or timeouts during the experience. I also had it running while streaming some world cup games with no issues. I came back at various times during the day (6 am, noon, 6pm and midnight) and the experience was the same with longest session last about 2.5 hours. I left myself spectating another user and that was the only time I was disconnected from the service. I'm not entirely sure if the game being played would affect how the magic happens and as more popular games get implement if that would effect game place  
 
After some time and $6 poorer I was really damn happy with how Borderlands played. It was a substantial upgrade from what I was running natively though I did miss being able to tweak out settings and FOV and other settings I had on my steam version. Ultimately though, I was doing all those tweaks because I was trying to get a better performance out of my machine and in this case it wasn't neccessary. I also couldn't find out if the DLC packs were already included in this version of the game and if not how they were going to be included as well as future packs. So many questions but I'm sure time will tell.. Check back tomorrow for my Batman write up.. Thanks for checking in..