Hear me out...

[Danziger]

I don't have the space for a big desktop PC rig with desk and chair and all the peripherals. However, I like the ability to swap out and upgrade parts in a traditional PC tower. They have wireless keyboards, mice, and monitors right? Why could I not use an "empty" laptop as a monitor, keyboard, and mouse for a nice PC tower that I leave in a corner somewhere?

[Dakpilot]

I have a (large) PC case on one side of the room, far on the other side i have monitor and USB hub,  hard connected by cables, HDMI and USB3 extender,  with wireless mouse/keyboard and peripherals plugged in to hub

 

Cheers, Dakpilot

[Danziger]

Someone on a guitar forum actually mentioned that they have a service where you pay a subscription to rent the ability to use a company's super gaming computer remotely to play your games. One of them is called Geforce Experience by Nvidia. Does anyone have experience with that? Would it work for IL*2? Depending on the fee, it seems like it would be much more feasible than upgrading a PC every couple of years.

[AndyJWest]

I think you must be referring to GeForce Now. From their FAQ, it appears that they only support a very limited set of input devices (all gamepads), which would make it more or less useless for IL-2 GB.

 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce-now/system-reqs/

[RedRider]

Input lag is a big issue as well. Image/sound packets must travel from the streaming system to your computer. Then your computer has to send control inputs to the streaming service. Then the streaming service sends your updated computed position info to the IL2 server. Then the IL2 server sends updated position data of your multiplayer peers to the streaming service....

 

Basically 2x the network traffic and latency. Not a good option for multiplayer, IMO. Single player might not be too noticible, depending on distance of their nearest node.