Steam In Home Streaming, is it actually just a pile of cack?

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Has Steam In Home Streaming ever worked for anyone?

I tried it ages ago when it was first out and never got a game to run. It always crashed my PC, the receiving PC, or both.

I've just given it a go again know using my work laptop as the receiver and its still cack. Launched Dirt Rally, random crazy colours. Tried Grid Autosport and got the same. So tried Toubox Turbos and it ran, so exit out and try another game but now nothing runs as Toy box Turbos is still running! Open Toy box Turbos again and both crash!

Why would anyone bother with this when spending £10 on a 20m HDMI cable is far superior in every way? It seems like a massively over complicated worthless piece of junk

/rant :p
 
Working fine here, even non- steam games.
Receiving pc is a 5350 am1 and gigabit network. I leave the usb receiver for my controller plugged into my main pc upstairs as some games dong support through the stream. Mostly play fifa and gta v using it.
 
Works perfectly, very happy with it after many hours of gaming on a crappy low spec laptop plugged into my TV. I have to use a wired connection though as wireless does give me quality issues.
 
Nate--IRL-- said:
Works great for me streaming to my Linx tablet over wi-fi.

Nate
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As long as I don't move too far away from the Router or the Relay/Booster it always works fine for me too on my Linx 8, any more than 5-6m away and it starts buffering but it's the default Sky Router with bad WiFi anyway.

I'm sure I've read somewhere it would be working for Android devices soon too.
 
Just tried gta v streaming through geforce experience. Using a android app called Moonlight Game Streaming and even tho it had the odd stutter and a bit of a input lag moment on occasion just driving around was fun on the 50" tv which was hooked up to a android box with a 360 controller to play the game on. This is through wifi. Im sure it would have been better through lan tho.
 
I've been trying this with WOW and Rift without success.

Other games work fine but ones that have a launcher seem to mess up, anyone had this working?
 
Worked fine for me (wired) but racing games I'm sensitive to the extra latency, even though it's very low.
 
Works great for me also with a intel i3 NUC in the living room from the PC in my sig over Gigabit network.
 
Kaelsin said:
So do the NUCs work great for this? Or is it better to build a little HTPC? How much grunt do you generally need?
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Well my NUC is a i3 (1.7GHz) 8GB Ram and HD4400. So nothing special and like I said I've had no problems at all with it no matter what I have thrown at it via Steam streaming. It's more down to the actual streaming system really. And of course having a good connection between the two devices makes a hell of a difference.

I can't comment on the HTPC route as I have never had the need for one. Someone else can probably supply more info though :)
 
Seems that individual experience of this is rather mixed, which is a shame. It would ideal for me as the GF doesn't like when I run a 15m HDMI cable across the house :p. But if it working seems like such a hit and miss I'll have to stick with that.
 
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