I doubt it'd work very well, you'd need a pretty good upload speed on the host for it to be any good, even controlling a simple desktop over the internet is laggy... it's even laggy over a 100mb/s LAN.
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I doubt it'd work very well, you'd need a pretty good upload speed on the host for it to be any good, even controlling a simple desktop over the internet is laggy... it's even laggy over a 100mb/s LAN.
It won't work well for decades and decades in the bigger picture. Imagine trying to stream something like a 1680x1050 game over the internet without latency issues. Not going to happen. It'll be confined to the same room or over a VERY fast lan (talking thousands of mb/sec here). Effectively useless.
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It will probably be ok for slower strategy and rpg games, also I'd think a quadcore would come in use for this.
Why a quad core? It won't be the PC failing you. What you'd need for this to work well is a leased line from your ISP
i can confirm that it works well i streamed cod4 and oblivion from main pc upstairs to my eeepc with me downstairs over n class wireless network and its pretty playable. Now over the net i have not tried yet, might try that when i go over my mates later.
its pretty cool for free and recommend you all to try it its only 10mb ish download
its pretty cool for free and recommend you all to try it its only 10mb ish download
sounds good
i downloaded it last night but was very skeptical it would be any use but i will give it a shot today
Remember, your internet is nowhere near the speed of your wireless, a big factor is also your upload speed. The computer hosting the game will have to have a very good upload speed for it to work properly.
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Just tried it over gigabit LAN :
Savage - gave error when starting
ET: worked ok. Sometimes when starting the mouse would not work, after i moved the mouse on the server, the mouse on the client worked fine
640x480 is rubbish, can't read any text, but is just about playable. You could play fine, mouse-lag is minimal but enough to be annoying (this could be because ET isn't officially supported)
Most of the games i play are on steam, and i don't fancy anything nabbing my password, so i didn't try it
Used up ~2.5% network utilisation.
edit: I just noticed it has decided to be the default App for opening .mp4 video (i don't remember it asking), not very happy about that, gonna uninstall it asap.
Savage - gave error when starting
ET: worked ok. Sometimes when starting the mouse would not work, after i moved the mouse on the server, the mouse on the client worked fine
640x480 is rubbish, can't read any text, but is just about playable. You could play fine, mouse-lag is minimal but enough to be annoying (this could be because ET isn't officially supported)
Most of the games i play are on steam, and i don't fancy anything nabbing my password, so i didn't try it
Used up ~2.5% network utilisation.
edit: I just noticed it has decided to be the default App for opening .mp4 video (i don't remember it asking), not very happy about that, gonna uninstall it asap.
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well i tried it but didn`t like it, found it a tad laggy and the resolution was too low
think ill stick to playing games on the actual system running them
if you pay you can any res you want. I think its really only suited for gamming over you own network not the internet at present.
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There is an APP simular to this for DAP's (Zen/Ipods etc), it lets you run Windows (not Vista yet) on your DAP.
You can take your desktop as it was inc games installed and play them on the DAP, then later when back at PC the games will be at whatever stage you completed and left them at on the DAP.
I tried to use it on my ZV:M but Im on Vista.
I dont get how they can claim the games will run with no loss of perfomance since a PC playing a new game is a lot differenet from the hardware in a DAP.
Edit here when I find URL.
You can take your desktop as it was inc games installed and play them on the DAP, then later when back at PC the games will be at whatever stage you completed and left them at on the DAP.
I tried to use it on my ZV:M but Im on Vista.
I dont get how they can claim the games will run with no loss of perfomance since a PC playing a new game is a lot differenet from the hardware in a DAP.
Edit here when I find URL.
I think it's just forwarding the Display/X server and audio so the hardware on the local device is merely used for displaying the stream from your machine, and providing the input. All game processing etc. is done on the remote machine.
Similar to VNC perhaps
Similar to VNC perhaps