Steam - In-Home Streaming

Tried this out last night playing Tomb Raider. There was noticable input lag in areas with a lot going on-screen, aiming was made more difficult by the slight delay. I also noticed some compression artefacts, flickers, and frame rate drops, however it didn't crash once in 30mins play. Will have a look at my network tonight and make sure im getting full gigabit speeds between my PCs.

It's a very interesting concept, but it seems to fall short on delivery of a good experience in that playing from a better PC then adding input lag / compressed graphics / sub-par fps makes a graphically demanding title play awfully. So if it's not useful for playing the demanding stuff, then it's not useful at all really.
 
Been using steam streaming heavily for the past 2 months.
My networks good, I use an ultrabook as a client, and I get flawless 1080p streaming over wifi.
HOWEVER, they need to change the bandwidth caps, at the moment the option between 30 and 100 (unlimited) is diabolical, 100mb is too much for my Ultrabook in some games, but 30 compresses too much.
 
Did you get the steam overlay to work on machine that is being streamed to by any chance? I can get the f6 network one to work but not the actual steam overlay.

EDIT: Seem you can't set them to different keys from shift tab, tried them both on - and it would not work.
 
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tried this earlier from my main PC (windows 7) where games run at 1920x1080 to my HP Envy (windows 8) notebook tablet PC. Blank screen and a small messaging popping up every so often saying slow network (I have a 100mbps network). I had both PC's next to each and I could control my main PC by using the mouse on the notebook so there was the connection, but no picture was displayed on the notebook. Any ideas?
 
streaming bf4 to my old 50inch plasma really does make my monitor seem so much better. It looked okay and far better than my media pc would be able to game at but it was a noticeable difference. still early days for it I suppose.

I did a speed test on my LAN and the speeds seem way down, think there's a 100mb only rated cable somewhere which is slowing it all down and causing the image of the stream to be compressed. So the image quality id my fault I guess and not the streams
 
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Ran from my PC to my 2013 MBA, when a game worked it was perfect, Tomb Raider, Skyrim, Total War and Torchlight 2 ran perfectly, like they were installed.

Others I tried either crashed or just didn't run at all.

Promising.
 
Worked really well for me via 5Ghz wireless connection, tried streaming several games from sig PC to an old T9500, ATi x2300 256mb, 4GB DDR2, 14.1" Win7 laptop.
 
Just popping in to say this is awesome, I can't see myself ever having the need for a console again.

Media PC running on a Microserver N40L (Turion 2 CPU, Geforce 610, 4GB, Ubuntu 13.10) happily accepted Wolfenstein over a stream from my W8.1 PC with no fuss. Incredibly slick.

The icing on the cake? My PC is connected via a homeplug to the router. Haven't checked the bandwidth utilisation, but I'm seriously impressed with that.
 
anyone used this on old hardware, im trying to get my core2duo thinkpad to work with it it has no onboard graphics just a gma graphics cant get my frames to get high my host pc is the one in my sig
 
On the client machine try limiting the bandwidth and set it to fast instead of balanced.

Then step it up in increments. I reckon the GMA950 is probably an era to far, but worth a test. Alternatively, drop your resolution down.

If your machine can play video at that res smoothly, then I reckon you should be ok for streaming.
 
Witcher1979 said:
You will get whatever your main PC can pump out FPS wise, the machine you are streaming to is doing no work afaik anyway.
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The PC that receiving the stream doesn't have to do a lot work but it still has to handle the data that's being sent to it over the network and decode it so it displays on the screen. I think nearly all modern CPU's can cope as a receiver but Linus when sampling the Beta version run into problems when he used an older lower powered HP device (which looked like one these but about 5-6 years older).

Personally I would like to do away with my HTPC, it's a big metal box which looks good and holds a good amount gear but it's becoming redundant. I would like to get one of these along with a new Wireless AC router. I could use some double sided tape to secure that little Intel NUC to the back of the TV and steam to it from a NAS or my main PC when I wanted to play some games.
 
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i played Painkiller HD ages ago, a pile of rat infested junk and only half the game

BUT RIGHT NOW, it's redownloading the whole game again, maybe the developers have been fixing it....no idea, but i've never seen STEAM redownload a whole game before
 
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i played Painkiller HD ages ago, a pile of rat infested junk and only half the game

BUT RIGHT NOW, it's redownloading the whole game again, maybe the developers have been fixing it....no idea, but i've never seen STEAM redownload a whole game before
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To be honest I've got 100Mb Fibre and it's so quick (especially if Steam can max it out) it's almost as worth downloading it as it is to install it of the disc. I done this the other month with Napoleon Total War, it was taking forever to install of the disc (which I think may have been faulty) so in the end I downloaded of it Steam which took about 45mins in total.
 
Many Steam game developers are currently working on native SteamOS titles, which will result in the best possible living room experience
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Does anyone else read that as pc games that will have giant console huds and ridiculous fov?
 
Tried to play Grid 2 on my HTPC last night and got a "slow decoding" error, it was unplayable other than just about being able to navigate the menus. I haven't tried tweaking he settings in Steam yet, but that will be the next job.

Using a gigabit wired connection but it is passing through 2 switches between the 2 PCs.
 
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