Patent attributes
Methods and systems for providing gaming services are provided. One system includes a operating system for executing a first game logic that is configured to define a game environment in response to game commands for a first user as well as for executing a second instance of game logic for the game environment for the game. The system also includes virtual drivers associated with the operating system, a non-virtual driver associated with a hardware graphics processing unit (GPU), and a shared memory. The GPU is configured to render a first video stream for the first game logic and a second video stream for the second game logic. One or more dynamic encoding pipelines (DEPs) are used for encoding video frames of the second video stream for transmission to a client device of the second user. The gaming system also includes an I/O device for communicating the first video stream to a display of the first user and for communicating the second video stream to the client device.
