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

Glaucus · 25 May 2015 at 22:51

Use it all the time, it occasionally crashes on the receiving pc. But the streaming pc carries on running and you just press stream and it goes straight back in. Love it.

Including those with loader.
Had to force screen resolution and run games full screen. Otherwise mouse and buttons look lined up but aren't.

melmac · 25 May 2015 at 23:17

I have it streaming from my office to my home over wireless and it works great.

Sometimes I get a yellow slow connection warning in the bottom corner but the games haven't been affected.

demon8991 · 26 May 2015 at 01:19

Works fine for me on Gigabit Ethernet

Have you enabled the following?

Host Machine:
Enable Hardware Encoding (under advanced)
Prioritise Network Traffic (under advanced)

Client Machine:
Beautiful (as long as you have a good network)
Enabling Hardware Encoding (under advanced)

Jonny2284 · 26 May 2015 at 06:20

On the whole I find it works great, there's a couple of games I find don't transfer properly (WWE 2k15, GTAV & Dynasty Warriors Empires) but they're all games that I have trouble getting to stay fullscreen on my gaming PC that I never got around to solving and I suspect the problem is tied to that rather than a problem with the streaming itself.

Robert · 26 May 2015 at 06:48

Skeeter said:
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 . But if it working seems like such a hit and miss I'll have to stick with that.

Seems mainly positive to me, in here at least?

Deathjester · 26 May 2015 at 09:55

You can just link Steam to the wow.exe or wow64.exe rather than the launcher.

If you have battle.net client open I think it can cause issues, I can test it when I get home tonight.

I've had nothing but good experiences so far, even streaming Dragon Age Inquisition from Origin.

ci_newman · 26 May 2015 at 11:12

The only games I've tried streaming were racing sims (like Assetto Corsa) however in-game streaming doesn't support gaming wheels so it was a complete no-go for me.

stopper · 26 May 2015 at 11:44

Battery! said:
I'm sure I tried this and it does not work, it calls the launcher iirc.

WoW can be executed without the launcher still, so it should work. WOW.exe or WOW64.exe.
I can't try and confirm it myself anymore though as I am on Linux and our Steam doesn't allow us to add a Windows executable.

Dirk Diggler · 5 Oct 2015 at 19:06

I'm trying this out just now. The host PC is running 1440p and all the games are set that way. The client PC is 1080p but the games are running at host res. Should I be dropping the resolution to match the client?

Also, host monitor is Gsync so Vsync is switched off in game, should I change that? The host monitor is 120Hz but the target is 60. Is there any point in streaming games higher than the client res?

My head hurts.

I would love this to work out for loads of reasons!

AWPC · 5 Oct 2015 at 19:11

Works great for me over a 1GB LAN. Looks perfect as well on the PC streaming the game as long as you set the Steam Streaming settings to max it should be fine.

bisoner · 5 Oct 2015 at 19:21

Steam Streaming is now much better. I'm using Powerline adapters and it used to lag a lot. Nowadays, I have no such issues and my home network is the same.

Looking forward to the new Stream controller - user reviews look really positive.

Scougar · 5 Oct 2015 at 21:19

Gonna have to give this a try!

leaskovski · 5 Oct 2015 at 21:25

Tried it the other night with a mac and my work laptop as the host with rfactor and it was alright. All over wifi as well.

Dirk Diggler · 5 Oct 2015 at 23:34

Been playing Batman AK tonight and it's been working really well.

Best results seem to be with dropping res to client PC and enabling Vsync and 60fps cap.

If only I could do this with Uplay and Origin, it could Dave me a few Bob!

nox_uk · 6 Oct 2015 at 08:44

works fine for me too - can get a bit funny/laggy when i ask it to stream two different games to two devices at the same time though

Nox

leaskovski · 6 Oct 2015 at 12:28

String said:
Been playing Batman AK tonight and it's been working really well.

Best results seem to be with dropping res to client PC and enabling Vsync and 60fps cap.

If only I could do this with Uplay and Origin, it could Dave me a few Bob!

http://www.technipages.com/how-to-stream-origin-games-over-steam

Dirk Diggler · 29 Oct 2015 at 08:15

I got Origin games working, has anyone managed to get Uplay games working too?

Luke_Bowman · 29 Oct 2015 at 08:23

I'd really like to see you run a 20m HDMI cable anywhere

russ21282 · 30 Oct 2015 at 10:56

It was really buggy for me on Witcher 3 a few weeks back (host: 5820 & FuryX receiving: 8350 & 270x using powerlines)

Steam on the host PC kept crashing when the other one connected. I got bored of running up and down stairs and gave up after a while, so didn't actually play anything.

I ended up installing the games on the second PC and syncing game saves through my Synology cloud which works nicely.

Dirk Diggler · 30 Oct 2015 at 11:01

russ21282 said:
It was really buggy for me on Witcher 3 a few weeks back (host: 5820 & FuryX receiving: 8350 & 270x using powerlines)

Steam on the host PC kept crashing when the other one connected. I got bored of running up and down stairs and gave up after a while, so didn't actually play anything.

I ended up installing the games on the second PC and syncing game saves through my Synology cloud which works nicely.

Steam games have been working perfectly for me, mate.