How well does NVidia Streaming work?

[pumaz]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but here goes!

I'm currently running 2 PC's (lounge & man cave) and I've just ordered a new GTX 1070 and 1440p monitor for the man cave and the current 970 will replace the 280x in the lounge PC which is connected to a 50" 1080p TV. I mostly use the lounge PC for gaming and watching Kodi etc.

Do I still need the lounge PC or would it be possible to stream the man cave PC to the Lounge TV using something like a Shield TV or Steam box and could I use it for browsing and media playback as well as games. How would running at 1440p on man cave PC be handled when streaming to a 1080p TV and would a wired network be good enough for smooth 1080p 60fps streaming?

A couple of years ago I tried the whole 10m HDMI lead to TV but it was more trouble than it was worth and gave up with it mostly because of HDMI conflicts and sparkles

So is streaming good enough to lose my second PC?

 

[wellibob]

Streaming isn't bad at all. I've a similar set up but having used nvidia shield and direct pc using Steam if you can afford separate systems go with that. Streaming in my view is OK but glitches, lag etc your always wondering what's causing it. If you can not get all twitchy about this issues then stream away.

 

[pumaz]

Thanks, I can afford to keep both systems I was really looking at wether I needed to keep both at this stage or if I could recoupe some money and cut down on gadge!!! But it would have to week seamlessly like having a PC connected to the TV but I could put up with the odd glitch as long as they were few and far between

 

[tommybhoy]

ShieldTV is amazing for media Streaming be it wireless/ethernet.

They try and push Plex, but I use Emby instead for media streaming from my PC as it was a one off payment of ~£4 and easier/quicker to refresh your library if you added new media and wanted to watch it on the Shield almost straight away.

Game streaming, wireless is absolutely terrible no matter how good your router is, ethernet is generally very very good and solid but it can throw a wobbly from time to time requiring either a sign out/in on the Shield(hardly ever though but does happen), or Geforce Experience requiring an update to the latest version on your PC or it won't stream any games at all.

On what Shield to get, I have the three of them, K1 tablet-Game stream can be god awful over wireless, can be run wired but that defeats the purpose imo.

500Gb STV exactly the same as the 16Gb Shield TV-not 100% silent(very light hum if your anal about noise) and slower to boot than the 16Gb one.

16Gb(+64Gb micro SD card that expands your storage if req)-totally silent and as above snappier than the 500 Gb.

The Shield controller is fantastic imo and can control every aspect of the Shield and with an Amazon Fire Stick remote@£15, completes the user experience as it does everything the official Shield remote does bar volume/voice control, but it costs £40 so quite a saving and more robust as read lots of users complaining about the official remote breaking easy.

If you have any native Android games that are controller enabled in your google account from a phone/tablet, they'll work and there is loads of other high quality(and rubbish ones) titles to purchase too.

Browsing however needs chrome to be 'sideloaded'(google that one as this posts getting out of control) and it's very clunky unless you have one of those mini keyboard/mouse, then it's doable.

 

[pumaz]

Thanks for the info. tommy

Just bought a Shield TV off mm so going to see how that goes, I do already have one of the original (fire risk) Shield Tablets so I know my way around!