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

Spud21 said:
as others have said that is pretty irrelevent, the movie file will be at much lower fps, and will not care if you have a high latency as you simply arent interacting with it. Also most streamers use some sort of buffering, (not much, but it doesnt need to be) whereas the game will be running in real time and will be responding to your every input, which means that you will get latency issues.
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Exactly.
 
String said:
Mine works great too, but I need to ditch the power line and get the network all hard wired as it can lose the connection after a while.
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I came to the conclusion that Powerline Adapters just don't work that well outside ideal/lab conditions. They're good but not great. Very hit and miss if you've installed them on different rings. I'm pretty certain that silly things like someone turning on the microwave in the kitchen causes glitches. I suppose it's a very noisy environment electrically so no surprise.
 
Spud21 said:
as others have said that is pretty irrelevent, the movie file will be at much lower fps, and will not care if you have a high latency as you simply arent interacting with it. Also most streamers use some sort of buffering, (not much, but it doesnt need to be) whereas the game will be running in real time and will be responding to your every input, which means that you will get latency issues.
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Makes sense, thanks. I guess the best thing for me to do would be to buy a usb to ethernet hub or adapter and rj45 cable then whenever i use steam streaming have a solid 100down/100up connection instead of messing around with an expensive router or powerlines
 
It works pretty well for me with world of warships, there are a few artefacts and glitches but I put that down to the fact that my pc connects via power line to the garage at the bottom of the garden, goes into a switch then into another switch, back out via cat5e to the house, into my access point and to the laptop over wifi. I'm sitting about 60 cm away from the host pc so the network path isn't very efficient :p

5ghz wireless helps a lot
 
Is anyone seeing their GPU memory clock dropping to 6Ghz (GTX970) when streaming?

I'm seeing this with ROTTR, but when I play direct on the PC the memory clock is 7Ghz.
 
The wife bought me one of these for xmas and it works very well indeed. The only problem being is that I find it hard to drag myself away from my pc to play the lounge.
 
wnb said:
The wife bought me one of these for xmas and it works very well indeed. The only problem being is that I find it hard to drag myself away from my pc to play the lounge.
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I'm the opposite. I don't like sitting in my bedroom playing on the PC. Being able to play from the sofa has got me interested in gaming again. :D
 
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