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		espadrine on July 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Play GTA V in your Browser, Sort of Guacamole is a text protocol. The screen is sent as PNG images in base64. It was built before websockets were compatibly implemented across browsers.

iztyhi on July 28, 2015 [–]

Any idea what the actual performance impact of that is?

PhasmaFelis on July 28, 2015 | [–]

For fullscreen 60FPS, it's probably going to increase the bandwidth requirements by an order of magnitude, which will lock out a bunch of users on less-than-ideal connections.

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