Steam streaming?

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Anyone do this? I've just found out about it and it sounds like something I'd like to try out. Was thinking of a gaming laptop, however I'd only really use it on the sofa at home and was put off my last gaming laptop with the noise level, so this interests me.

I was thinking a nice thin 1080p touchscreen laptop then steam streaming off it. Is anyone doing this? If so what are your thoughts?

Thanks. :)
 
I use my girlfriends laptop, only a simple HP ultrabook but runs games sweet. I have both the laptop wired and PC wired when running games, otherwise there's a little bit of lag over wireless. Works beautifully though.
 
ThaReaperGuy said:
I use my girlfriends laptop, only a simple HP ultrabook but runs games sweet. I have both the laptop wired and PC wired when running games, otherwise there's a little bit of lag over wireless. Works beautifully though.
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My desktop is wired, I was hoping to go wireless for the laptop but there are ways round it should it work noticeably better.

Suppose I better try this out first before buying a laptop. :D
 
Yeap it is how I game in bed with the wife's old ASUS laptop. I use the 360 pad and just stream them over. Best feature in ages imo. Wired is the best method though, wireless for me was a bit poop. But our whole house is wired though for movie streaming in every room so was easy for me to get a cable.
 
Wireless will still work, ideally you want the host PC to be wired so it has the fastest upload, the wireless download should be OK on the laptop anyway.

Steam > Big Picture > Xbox 360 Pad, works fantastically.
 
Had a play with the streaming earlier. Streaming from my desktop over to my Transformer t100 (intel atom cpu, 2GB memory) - was amazed by how well it works when I had decent wifi signal. Could just have easily been playing it locally when I was sat in the same room as the router.
Shame when I come upstairs it all fails miserably.... Time to get another wifi router for upstairs :D
 
Surface Pro 2 is 560 quid or something, that'd be perfect as a Steaming Client.
I use an Acer S7 191 Ultrabook (1080P IPS Ivy Bridge i5) and Steam Streaming is absolutely flawless.
 
I quite like using the streaming service. It works on some non steam games as well but for some reason guild wars 2 just seems a bit blurry. I can run payday 2 no problems tho.
 
Martini1991 said:
Surface Pro 2 is 560 quid or something, that'd be perfect as a Steaming Client.
I use an Acer S7 191 Ultrabook (1080P IPS Ivy Bridge i5) and Steam Streaming is absolutely flawless.
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I'm looking at a ASUS VivoBook S551LN for £600

I5 4200
1080p
Touchscreen
Ethernet port
Two hdds (1 small SSD but upgradable)
Even has room for a DVD drive and 840m gpu
22mm thick.
 
dokko said:
I'm looking at a ASUS VivoBook S551LN for £600

I5 4200
1080p
Touchscreen
Ethernet port
Two hdds (1 small SSD but upgradable)
Even has room for a DVD drive and 840m gpu
22mm thick.
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Um just use the wifi and game without streaming? Streaming has to use wifi so I don't understand the point of what you're thinking of doing.
 
I have access to Steam Streaming via my Nvidia Shield Tablet...works absolutely fine using that for me...plus the addition controller seams absolutely fine.

You can select Steam as part of "My Games" and Steam goes into Big Picture mode and all your installed games can be accessed there. For example there is no Nvidia Gamestream support for the Walking Dead Season 2, however, I can access the game through the Steam app in "My Games" and can stream it directly from there with full controller support.

Using the Shield tablet the steams I've had have been seamless and work fantastically well and of course in addition it allows you to stream some origin and uplay titles which have Nvidia Gamestream support.
 
Look up limelight on xda and stream to your android device. Takes a bit of faffing to do and there are compatibility issues with some devices but it's possible.
 
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Mockingbird said:
That sounds nearly powerful enough to just run the games outright - I assume you want it for things other than streaming as well?
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I'm hoping it can do most 2d games, plus some light 3d, and stream wired games in the house ie lying on the sofa or in bed (will get some home plugs for both areas)

My last laptop died, big brute of a thing, noisy, clunky 17" 1200p 880gtx which was awful really, I'm worried about a gaming laptop outright due to the noise so thought streaming would be a better option.

What replaced my laptop was an ipad2, which has done me well but is starting to show its age and why I thought a light 15.6 touchscreen laptop could take its place.

I think there's a gap for a unit, my gaming rig doesn't get used as much as I like simply down to it being faced away from tv, people, puppies, kids, therefore I end up playing 5-10mins here and there and never getting in to things. The ps4 gets more use as believe it or not even though it takes the tv it's more sociable, I think a laptop would offer that.

I looked at the surface pro 2 or which ever the new one is but wasn't sold on it, screen res is weird and it's a lot of money for a tablet.

Eames I hope this answers your questions on this. :)
 
majnu said:
Look up limelight on xda and stream to your android device. Takes a bit of faffing to do and there compatibility issues with some devices but it's possible.
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Need to buy one of those NOW!
 
I just discovered this amazing feature as my dad wanted me to see what it was like playing games on a 15.6 laptop instead of me ordering a new 17"er. works awesome! but with slight network lag which i can sort out with a Wireless N card most likely.
 
how has this come on over the last few years?
my gaming laptop is dying even more. and well i like the slim quite laptop i have for everything else.
but is it any good, don't play fps but RTS, fallout, xcom, rimworld, ksp, SWGemu(assuming wouldnt work as its not a steam game?) and those sorts of things.
 
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