Bifurcation of gameplay between mobile and non-mobile play with intelligent game state saving, and startups

A cloud gaming system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to:
• identify a device of a user for playing a game;
• identify a bandwidth associated with the device of the user while the user plays the game;
• generate a video stream to be transmitted to the device;
• and
• dynamically remove one or more graphic layers of the video stream before being transmitted to the device.

One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:

• identify a device of a user for playing a game;
• identify a bandwidth associated with the device of the user while the user plays the game;
• generate a video stream to be transmitted to the device;
• and
• dynamically remove one or more graphic layers of the video stream before being transmitted to the device.