GDITC

Aka Gaming Desktop In The Cloud Aka Gpu 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

Why

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

Inspiration

I owe the following repos deeply:

AWS (Current focus)

• 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

Azure

• 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

Google Cloud

• https://github.com/putty182/gcloudrig
• https://github.com/aykamko/parsec-google-cloud-gaming

Unreal

• 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

Technical Notes

Terraform

• 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

AWS

• 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)

Windows

• 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

Software

• 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)