Steam - In-Home Streaming

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http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/1945848997594939000

Many Steam game developers are currently working on native SteamOS titles, which will result in the best possible living room experience being delivered to their customers. In the meantime, we believe it’s important to make sure that the existing catalog of games is also available to Steam users in the living room. So we're working on in-home streaming, a way for people with good home networks to seamlessly play their Steam games anywhere in the house.

We've posted a short series introducing the feature on Steam:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Responsiveness
Part 3: Home Networks
Part 4: Beta Testing
Part 5: Q & A

Please join our Steam In-Home Streaming community group for more information and a chance to be selected for the upcoming beta test.
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Native Steam-OS titles... Mmm.

I LOVE VALVE, however, if they do not soon realise that their own **** does indeed stink, they are in trouble, BUT, we shall see I guess. If this is in some way as nerfed as the Family "Sharing", fasten your seatbelts.

They have banked a LOT of "good will" from their customer base over the years but in their current direction, maybe some people will be making some withdrawals?
 
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FrenchTart said:
This. I'm not sure I understand the worries in the OP?
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I am not 100% sure that Valve need to be placing their efforts into their "own" operating system/distro.

Why not just ensure better compatibility among the most popular Linux distros? I do not use Linux however as I find it cumbersome (I try it once a year and it always feels "incomplete"), I am not a Linux user though so take my comments with a bucketful of salt.

Their own hardware, their own operating system? Is this something Valve needed to be doing?

They obviously see the industry going in a specific direction and are trying to "catch the wave" early which I can understand.
 
Would it be wrong to say that PC gamers mostly use their PC's for other tasks.

If that is true, does this mean gamers will need to dual boot operating systems in the long term if the Steam OS is successful if no Linux options are suitable?

If the answer is "Just use Windows", does that mean this is a product aimed MAINLY (Lets be honest, it will be difficult to convert the majority of Windows users to Linux) at the "Big Picture" users?
 
meandu229 said:
I am thinking about spending £150 on the N54L microserver + get bit more ram + a low profile gpu like the 640 which should run quite a few older games on medium settings (bf3 @ medium @720p is ~30fps apparently) natively + steam streaming. And should come in at under £250 all in and will also serve as a always on NAS/media server and such
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Although controller lag is minimal, display lag at this momet can be more obvious in certain titles.
 
davieg said:
Well in the beta, and can only get a black screen on the streaming client, network connection seems fine on the monitoring overlay and it starts the game on the host pc just the client is a black screen, am wondering if shadowplay is causing an issue somewhere or if its something else.
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Is the server PC on standby on the lock screen?

Mine was, and this caused a black screen for me. I think using remote desktop then logging off might have had something to with it perhaps?
 
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