Splashtop for game streaming...

eyetrip

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Did a quick search and couldn't find a thread, but wanted to know if anyone else out there was using this?

Only found this as I was waiting for the Steam in-home streaming.

It's better for nvidia cards - not sure AMD cards support full screen gaming.

Gave it a try last night, and it works better then I thought it would, but not quite good enough that I would actually play games over it - which I am hoping I can sort.

One down side, is the need to disable SLI, but rendering 1080p to stream from my media PC, a single card is Ok (simply a pain having to disable it before I would stream a game)

A surprise is that my gamepad was still communicating fine with the gaming PC in other room.

So, the only thing I need to address is the lag - if I even can.

Neither of the PC's is in a position to use wired right now, which is probably my first hurdle. Both are using WirelessN 300Mbps usb adapters.

First question - is there any chance I am likely to get this working better over wireless? Any settings in Win7 I can set that may help?

Or on the router?
 
I really don't think that you'll ever get this to a point where it is fluid enough to play comfortably unfortunately. I use Splashtop myself for rdesktop-like purposes and it's great for that but like all streaming solutions it's never going to be great for anything but casual gaming.
 
Doesn't Splashtop use the internet rather than your local network even if both PC's are at home? I remember when using it for my Nexus tablet even if I was downstairs in the house and the PC is upstairs it uses quite a chunk of bandwidth, so pushing a 1080p game over it will require lots.
 
flibby said:
Doesn't Splashtop use the internet rather than your local network even if both PC's are at home? I remember when using it for my Nexus tablet even if I was downstairs in the house and the PC is upstairs it uses quite a chunk of bandwidth, so pushing a 1080p game over it will require lots.
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I'm pretty sure it runs on the internal network... I could bee wrong though.

FrenchTart said:
I really don't think that you'll ever get this to a point where it is fluid enough to play comfortably unfortunately. I use Splashtop myself for rdesktop-like purposes and it's great for that but like all streaming solutions it's never going to be great for anything but casual gaming.
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Martini1991 said:
It's not going to work very well at all.

I find this very frustrating as Shield seems capable of doing something similar etc.
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The Nvidia opitmisation does help. It's very close to being usable - just not "quite" there :(

I did a test with dead space and BF4. It was so very nearly usable. Just figured if I could improve the latency, it would work.

Out of pure curiosity, I might dig out the long cables I have lying around somewhere and see how it goes non-wireless. I won't hold my breath though :)
 
If the quality of your wireless connection is medium-poor then you'll probably see an improvement with wired...but I still hold to my statement that you'll never get it into a usable state :/ I suspect you've already reached the pinnacle of game streaming - almost usable.
 
FrenchTart said:
If the quality of your wireless connection is medium-poor then you'll probably see an improvement with wired...but I still hold to my statement that you'll never get it into a usable state :/ I suspect you've already reached the pinnacle of game streaming - almost usable.
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I just kind of assumed it was more than plausible these days... what with the likes of onlive, gaikai, valve/steam releasing something, etc.

Oh well, it's something to play with this weekend - and if I can't get it there, well, I've both had fun and and established it's not worth waiting for something else like it :)
 
eyetrip said:
I just kind of assumed it was more than plausible these days... what with the likes of onlive, gaikai, valve/steam releasing something, etc.

Oh well, it's something to play with this weekend - and if I can't get it there, well, I've both had fun and and established it's not worth waiting for something else like it :)
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Onlive is pretty awful - and I've played it with just about the perfect possible setup you could hope for. SteamOS streaming might be okay I guess but personally I don't expect it to be good enough.
 
Have you tried it at 720p?

If it's a network capacity issue that should be better (I would think) whereas if it's purely latency, it won't make much of a difference.

Wired I would assume would be better, but how much better I just don't know.
 
Actually, got this running considerably better...

There is an option for smooth/sharp picture. Set it to smooth, and it's actually pretty good for the likes of AC2, Skyrim, etc.

There is some jpeg compression artefacts on smooth, but it's not terrible.

Only problem is after a few minutes it will get a stutter every (roughly) one second.

If I could fix that stutter, this will be fine for me for occasional large screen gaming without having to move the pc - and then hopefully the Steam streaming will be even better (though possibly only for games in steam)
 
Mockingbird said:
Have you tried it at 720p?
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Actually, I didn't really think about this much til just right now...

I need to see what happens when the host is set to something lower than 1080p.

I know when my 2560x1440 screen is running, it changes the screen res to 1080p (physically on the machine) and streams that.

But if it's lower, it may just stream the lower res, making it a bit snappier possibly.
 
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