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808Gaming's Piece of Shadow

Hopefully I dont get banned or worse. Just in my lil corner of ShadowThere is a spot for us to put our Vids but I might hit Spam status, so if nobody minds, I’m just going to post my In-Game Footage here. 11.24.2020, Shadow definition of KOS - Keep On Streaming

Gaming

Afterglow xBox 360 OTG and Android 10 not working

Apologies if this is the wrong Section. Scenario:Wired Afterglow xBox 360 Controller with Samsung s10e (Android 10) Manufacturer and 3rd Party OTGResult:R-Stick loses control of the Camera and/or does not translate Gamepad Controls from In-game SettingsSummary:Due to "Technology", the easy answer is...

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VR / Quest 2 low framerate / lag

Hi, I use a quest 2 with airlink on my shadow ghost (boost) connected by ethernet with optic fiber, I play in front of the router.Any games I tried (Alyx, boneworks, lone echo, etc) have low frame rates and are not smooth, almost unplayable. Games are setup to lowest settings. I also tried different...

Gaming

How do I connect my Thrustmaster Airbus sidestick to Shadow PC

I have A Thrustmaster Airbus Sidestick and cannot connect it to Shadow and I don’t have an option to enable the usb peripheral

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VPNs against TOS?

The Shadow terms of service prohibit VPN use, and state “Committing the following activities in this article may cause your account to be terminated“ The listed reason is that you might make it impossible to access your shadow without a reset.However it only says “VPN”, not “System-Wide VPN”; A brow...

Shadow 101

Shadow Is Trash ASF>

i wasted money and waited three months for when my shadow finally came just for them to tell me that i cant have access to it???, your company is terrible and i see yall going out of buisness soon.

Gaming

Mouse Randomly Clicking?

My mouse keeps randomly clicking while trying to use Shadow. It does this with multiple mouses and doesn't do it while I'm not using Shadow. Any fixes?

Compatibility

Games for Windows Live Fallout 3

Hello all togehter, I want to play Fallout 3 Steam, but therfore it is necessary to install Games for Windows Live,but this is not possible, there is a failure during installation, no internet connection. Someone an idea how to fix this? BR Sven :-)

Gaming

Experiences with EA Desktop

I decided to try out some EA play games via my Gamepass subscription. Unfortunately when I went to install Madden 21 it required EA Desktop when I got that set up it won't download any games. The word download is present but it's not click able.I'm trying to figure out if this is an issue with Shado...

Gaming

Star Citizen struggles a lot

Edit: Please ignore this lol, I completely neglected the fact that the first 256gb is an SSD. That said, Star Citizen is really struggling in boost, hopefully Ultra will remedy this. Hello, I’m sure of ya’ll know Star Citizen one way or another. It’s currently struggling a lot with shadow due to...

Gaming

No email Support

Hello,I have a question and i'm not sure if this is the right place. I have a new imac and of course i want to use shadow there. I installed shadow and write my email and password. Because of security reasons shadow want me to write a number that they will send me by email. But there is my problem,...

Shadow 101

Different levels of subscription

Hello,I’m wondering what benefit I would experience by moving from the boost subscription to one of the 2 more expensive subscriptions.I’m using Shadow just for gaming only, no work, not compiling code or crunching numbers etc. I have 500+ Mb/s down stream and use shadow either on a laptop or via my...

Gaming

i second the tizen, app compatibility or better said (incompatibly)

I too have a Tizen Samsung smart 4k UHD TV and I mean it's not hard for me to plug in my laptop and just boot shadow and still use my TV specs by putting it in game mode at 60 refresh rate at 1920 1080p fluidly but in the terms of having a " smart " TV, it's app developer community is not popular,...

Compatibility

Detroit: Become Human - Shader pipeline compilation

Wondering why Detroit: Become human is re-compiling shader pipelines after each reboot of my Shadow? The documentation states that this only occurs on first launch or after a GPU driver update.Not sure if anyone else has experienced this or found a workaround.

Gaming

Would be possible to enable Air Link for Quest?

Since it is already possible to stream VR content using Shadow via Virtual Desktop or Shadow’s own app, do you think would be possible to enable native air link so we can have better latency and smoothenes by using ASW? P.S. If you do, please don’t forgot the Mac users!

Compatibility

Scum performance

Has anyone found a way that makes Scum perform well with shadow boost. I'm new to all this but other games seem to be fine and yet scum is unplayable with how bad the graphics are and i can see the textures loading in every time I look in a different direction.

Gaming

Article Shadow Update: Week #16 [04/23/2021]

Update: No changelogs post for April 30thHey #TeamShadow! Though our changes are on the lighter side for this week, they are still mighty. We’re all about improving your Shadow experience on the Shadow Official app. Here are all the changelogs for this week Shadow OfficialDesktop and Boxes - La...

Roadmap & release notes

Hello Everyone!

Who are you? my name is paul Where do you come from? UK Why do you use Shadow and what is your favorite thing about it? Just ordered and looking forward to it, ill be using shadow for live streaming on you tube and gaming What is your favorite game of all time? MOHAA Spearhead What game did you last...

Gaming

Ultra wide monitor 5120 x 1440 support ?

Hello,I plan to buy the Samsung C49RG90, and would like to know if Shadow support the native resolution 5120x1440@60hz ?Thanks.

Compatibility

Running Docker/WSL2, is this possible?

Tried to install WSL2 and docker but failled to get this working. Docker tells me correctly to install the linux kernel, but the linux kernel installation fails. Just curious if this is even possible on Shadow? Device manager shows an issue with Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual machine bus driver, saying “...

Compatibility

Is it against the rules to Hibernate?

Hi, I was wondering if I could enable Hibernation and use it on my Shadow once it’s activated? I do that on my local PC, and Shadow is a full featured Windows 10 PC, so it should work the same way, right?

Compatibility

Article Shadow Update: Week #15 [04/16/2021]

Hey #TeamShadow! In this new desktop BETA-only version, we are adding Color Enhancement (4:4:4). This is a setting that is more CPU intensive for your computer. On some PCs you will not be able to use it, but on newer PCs you can enable it in the "testing" tab of the Launcher settings. Here are a...

Roadmap & release notes

DAW that works with shadow

I’m using pro tools and my eleven rack audio interface works fine for routing sound to my speakers for video games but refuses to route sound out of pro tools. I’m thinking maybe it’s pro tools.. has anyone had any success/failure with any other DAWs? or any advice on why it’s not working? Any ideas...

Compatibility

Privacy question about potentialy unknowingly sharing screen

Hello,last week I’ve logged to Steam, as I was not sure about typing correctly my password, I displayed it before submitting the form.Later I bought a game and filled my credit card information.I just realized that anyone with a desktop sharing tool could, with a simple screenshot, keep a copy of m...

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Feature Request

make it where if you forget a payment you guys save the PC so if you ever buy it again you have the same stuff as you left off

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