Steam streaming? Anyone use it?

Tried it with varying degrees of success to a macbook pro. Think my network is the weak link but Football Manager 2014 was the main success.

Had to change the resolution and run some of the games in windowed mode on my host machine for things to function correctly.
 
1080p is a real strain on a wireless network. I found it a non runner with Powerline adapters - not had the luxury of a wired network in my house. If you drop down to 720p it all works flawlessly on my wireless network. I have an Asus ac66u with a Asus USB dongle connected to my client. Client has a fairly old i3 cpu but decent laptop gpu for its age.

When it works, it's great.
 
bisoner said:
1080p is a real strain on a wireless network. I found it a non runner with Powerline adapters - not had the luxury of a wired network in my house. If you drop down to 720p it all works flawlessly on my wireless network. I have an Asus ac66u with a Asus USB dongle connected to my client. Client has a fairly old i3 cpu but decent laptop gpu for its age.

When it works, it's great.
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Not had a problem on gigabit powerline. I also don't have a problem streaming 30GB/1.5hr blu ray and if this works as desktop stream it should be no different.

Powerline is very variable between homes

I also found I had to keep getting up as I was in big picture.

Consensus seems it's fairly good. As long as you have a wired powerline or native ethernet. I also cannot stream full. Blu rays over WiFi ever
 
I use it all the time to stream to my tv in the lounge.

Im using a Raspberry PI, limelight pi. It took some setting up but once i got it working its been flawless, i get the odd bit of audio stutter now and then but this is due to the processing power of the PI.

Again online gaming is a no no due to lag but for everything else its almost pefect and at £25 for a PI a bargain too :)
 
Might have to give this a go soon, I have an Asus netbook that I usually plug into my tv to watch movies etc. Would be nice to sit away from my rig which sounds like a rocket that's about to take off :p
 
Works okay for me, streaming from the main PC to an old laptop (wired)... I keep meaning to put together a very small minimal spec HTPC to take over XBMC duty from the raspberry pi and act as a streamer, but haven't got around to it yet
 
I'm loving Steam streaming lately. Gets me away from sitting at my PC and in to the living room to be more sociable with the family. Also means they all get to have a go at the games i rave on about but none of them want to play usually on the PC.

I host off the rig in my spec to a i3 NUC over ethernet. Most of the games i play via SS are played on the 360 wired pad. I have a Logitech K830 keyboard for the NUC but there is no chance i can play FPS games with the trackpad on that keyboard. Although i've kinda got used to it with some Brutal Doom and Quake 1 sessions.

All in all SS as worked perfect for everything i have thrown at it so far. 10/10 from me. I'm also on Steam beta when i want to chill on the NUC and watch some friends fail on the games they're playing via Steam broadcasting :)
 
i use it a lot for my racing games just plug my laptop into the TV via HDMI and stream from my main pc to the laptop with no performance loss at all you are still using all the components in your main pc and it runs as smooth at 1080p
 
So the consensus is that this works well?
What network speed do you really need as it will be wireless? At what's the best way if testing actual speed?
I'm struggling ti decide and afford to upgrade pc and laptop. So remembered this, upgrade pc for far cheaper and just stream to laptop.

I'm assuming would need to dual boot the OS, or is there away to stream it from within windows?
 
Glaucus you can stream from any computer running Steam to any other computer running Steam afaik...

Wired is by far the best of course but it works alright wirelessly (though I'd recommend games where the occasional stutter won't cause issues, e.g. Civ V, XCOM... etc games where it's not about fast reactions)
 
Oh that's great, shame I can't really test it as PC is dead.

Wireless is the only really sensible option. Unless I'm playing in bed, then I suppose I could put a cable in.
Most of the time, it's those sort of games, as well as ksp etc. Wish I could test before spending.
 
I used to use it If I want to game in another room. my parents laptop used to be really poor so was able to play games on it. however, I have a gaming laptop now. but it can sometimes help if I want better graphics as my pc has more power.
 
Well tried it to, mainly success. Seems to run well better than laptop.
However it does say low capture almost permanently in the lower left corner in yellow. What does this mean?
And the menus and ui in the game where really small. Tried changing desktop to same resolution as desktop but didn't make any different.
 
From what I was told one my game streams better than the other software I tried. But since my upload is under 1mb I guess its a positive :D
 
Is there no way to change the quality of the stream you're watching? 720p looks nice, but sometimes I want to lower it down to 480p while I do other stuff.
 
Only ever tried it over ADSL Wi-Fi (around 5Mbps) and could sense a delay in action games but imagine it would work just fine over a good network.
 
JulioH said:
Is there no way to change the quality of the stream you're watching? 720p looks nice, but sometimes I want to lower it down to 480p while I do other stuff.
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If you go in to the home-streaming settings on steam, you can edit the streaming settings and pick performance over quality etc... and change the res.
 
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