Steam - In-Home Streaming

managed to get an invite to this last night and played around quickly with it to day o far so good. i tried Plants vs Zombies.
it timed out Connecting to my game machine until PVZ Full loaded to the menu then it was available, a bit annoying since you'll never really know wahts going on.

but this service reminds me of the "OnLive" service just on a smaller scale. nice idea though i do like it. so far
 
I gave this a go today and I was quite impressed. I was using it so I could play civ5 on my crappy HP laptop. The laptop fan didn't seem to spin up at all and it performed better than if i attempted to run it directly on the laptop.

All in all it's quite promising.
 
Just heard about this whilst i logged into steam. Gave it a go on thief and it timed out and crashed steam on the main pc! But i like the concept and hope they get it going in time for watch dogs so i can play it on ultra! I have a fast gigabit network so hope that it wont compress heavily.

Can but hope anyway.

I also believe this will be the future for console gaming also.. Move away from physical copies altogether and stream or dd. Thats why PSN bought up the geiko service or whatever its named.

Sony are also making this feature available on their new lineup of smart tvs so it irradiates the need for a console.
 
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Theres a post in buildapc at the minute trying to get the cheapest pc/box to be able to stream to for your TV. Following it closeley tbh the one thing I miss of consoles is having a comftable way to play my games in the living room (without moving the PC of course)
 
Just tried this streaming from my PC to my MacBook Air and it worked well, was smooth, need to give it a proper test though.
 
Just tried it on my Media PC, worked perfectly.

I also added Diablo 3 (Non-Steam Game) and worked without a single glitch. It was all over a CAT6/1Gb Switch. I did try wireless briefly.

Fantastic feature.
 
Just played Witcher 2 on my wifes 5742z, awesome. Will be able to lay in bed with the laptop playing my PC games WIN. Non steam games added seem to work as well, was just playing RE1 remake via dolphin added to my steam library. Mine work 100% over wireless as well.
 
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The upside to all this is Linux users now have axxs to all there old PC games as long as they work on the windows box they are streaming from. Just add everything as a non steam game, personally I think this is amazing and will be building a new Linux box for everyday use asap.
 
RoganTheGypo said:
Theres a post in buildapc at the minute trying to get the cheapest pc/box to be able to stream to for your TV. Following it closeley tbh the one thing I miss of consoles is having a comftable way to play my games in the living room (without moving the PC of course)
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Wonder if a Raspberry Pi could handle it :)
 
What happens if your main gaming pc uses a high resolution monitor for games and your tv is 1080p? Will the tv have to scale down or will steam somehow know to output the native res of your tv?
 
spoony77 said:
What happens if your main gaming pc uses a high resolution monitor for games and your tv is 1080p? Will the tv have to scale down or will steam somehow know to output the native res of your tv?
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On my laptop all games so far have been at the native res without having to do anything so I guess it knows somehow. If Steam gets modded to work on older consoles like the 360 or the original xbox and stream games to them it would be pretty cool.
 
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Mmm might need to get a laptop now.

Still, the only thing I want from Steam is for my nephew to be able to play game from my account in the living room, while I am upstairs playing a different game without logging someone out.

I really don't understand what the problem is with 2 different games being played from the same account at the same time, I can understand the same game being played because that's like buy one get one free but ughhhh /rant
 
I have tried streaming on a Acer Aspire Revo R3610 nettop PC and my surface pro 1, and both coped very well with games like arma 3 but would often crash the gaming pc or loose connection. I like the idea and think it has some potential.
 
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