PC to TV gaming

[Adrianr]

What are some options these days for being able to play games installed on my PC via my TV? It's only for slower story games that I'd rather be sat on my sofa with a controller.

PC is in a different room quite a distance from the TV, so anything hardwired is out. I suspect it's also too far to bluetooth a controller directly to the tower.

The TV is an LG C3 and I also have a Thomson 270+ that handles all streaming etc, if either of those are helpful. The tower is hardwired to a UniFi UCG Ultra which has a U6+ for wifi to the living room with decent signal.

What sort of things could I/should I be looking at? I'm not after max fidelity and I'd like to keep this endeavour as cheap as possible within reason.

 

[baritonejohann]

I gamed at 1080p on a 4k tv with a xbox controller for years. ran a i7 6700k/rtx2080 which was plenty for casual sofa gaming. Was great for streaming media to watch and the odd task too. Browsing reddit from the sofa is quite nice.
Pc's make excellent multimedia devices especially when audio is diverted to a decent hifi.

I would suggest if possible running a powered usb hub or powered usb cable to hub for 2.4ghz dongles for mouse, keyboard and controller. The closer to your gaming spot the better, especially if youd like to pop the odd usb drive in or charge your controller whilst connected to the pc via usb. Having your pc in another room means you can max out its cooling without having to worry about noisy cooling too which is a bonus.

Its worth considering the refresh rate of the tv you will be using into your build specs, afaik most tvs are 60hz

 

[sandys]

A low power PC or Android client for streaming using clients such as sunshine and moonlight or their newer versions, forget the same artemis/apollo, can be as simple as a PC stick/android box as it does none of the heavy lifting, will access all your games streamed from main machine.

You can use Steam game streaming but it is not as good quality and only works for stuff on Steam.

Alternatively geforce now app on LG works well, the free tier might have your games already, you can pair a controller to the TV. Has a decent selection of titles.