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Gaming Desktop In The CloudAkaGpu Desktop In The Cloud
Note :
- this is not 100% cleaned up yet , it works for me right now but I have to square away some quirks
- but I thought it was useful to share already
There a good repos available but I (personally) have the following goals:
- fully understand the code I executed : basically me disecting the powershell scripts and dependencies + documenting it
- restrict permissions as much as I can : seems most don't care, but I do care
- don't depend on unknown 3rd party download of tools - only use official sources: well ... it's obvious why
- make it useful beyond gaming : f.i. streaming , gaming development all could benefit from a cloud vm
- provide an easy way to override, customize the scripts : instead of having to fork it
- make it work on multiple (gpu/gaming) clouds
- make it easy to turn this into an image/ami
- turn this into a library of different install profiles
- turn this into an easy/cli UI program for everyone to use
I owe the following repos deeply:
- https://github.com/jamesstringerparsec : amazing polishing work to get things working on windows 2019 and others using parsec
- https://github.com/parsec-cloud/Cloud-GPU-Updater/blob/master/GPUUpdaterTool.ps1 : for installing the drivers on gpus
- https://github.com/badjware/aws-cloud-gaming/ : for making it into a terraform module
- https://github.com/russiansmack/galaxy : for looking at ways to automate steam
- https://github.com/domenickp/gamingaws-terraform
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtVbBlZ27uI : nice video series about setting up your aws cloud gaming server
Older:
- https://github.com/lg/cloudy-gamer : the (old) original cloud gaming repo that showed us how it could be done
- https://www.cloudar.be/awsblog/how-to-use-aws-ec2-gpu-instances/
- https://github.com/LGUG2Z/parsec-ec2
- https://github.com/nyanhp/AzureCloudGaming/
- https://github.com/hjb1/azureParsecCloudGaming
- https://github.com/nVentiveUX/azure-gaming/
- https://github.com/SamStenton/azure-gaming
- https://github.com/hjb1/azureParsecCloudGaming
- https://github.com/alliallfrey/vm-gamestream
- https://github.com/aws-samples/deploying-unreal-engine-pixel-streaming-server-on-ec2
- https://github.com/jmarymee/Unreal-Pixel-Streaming-on-Azure/tree/main/iac
- this currently uses Terraform 12
- if using aws-vault you need to store your key with -no-session as temporary keys without MFA don't play well with iam profiles
- TODO: turn this into a TF module
- persistent spot instances are used to make them survive stops
- spot instances for g4.2xlarge might require you to increase your limits of spotinstances (can not fullfill)
- vcpuLimitExceeded also needs to be increased
- we use a temporary key to create the windows instances
- TODO: permissions are too open right now (s3, ssm)
- current we activate winrm in user_data
- then transfer files to the instance using winrm to enable ssh
- then we continue using ssh to execute scripts in powershell
- Remote access: Win RM , SSH , RDP , Parsec (looking into moonlight & vnc)
- Display : NVIDIA Drivers
- Audio: Razer (looking into Virtual Cable)
- USB: Vigembus (looking into Virtual Here, Flexihub), windows Redirect FX
- Gamepad: Xbox compatible over Parsec
- VPN: (looking into ZeroTier)
- Game play: Steam , Battlenet, Epic Games
- Apps : (looking into Skype, OBS , Unreal Engine)