Stream games from office to living room

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I've got a big beefy gaming PC and the cost of building a separate living room PC just isn't on the cards at the moment (new house). I used to be able to run a long HDMI cable in the apartment I used to live in from the office to the living room which were next to each other and the wireless xbox controller still had decent connection.

However, in the new house, my office is now on the 2nd floor and considerably further away from the living room TV.

Are there any devices that allow me to 'cast' my PC to my TV without input lag and also accept the Xbox wireless dongle so it also can connect? Thankfully every room in the house has at least 2 ethernet ports and it's all running through a 24 port 10gig switch, so if said device can connect to ethernet to reduce input lag, even better.

Thanks!

 

[agnes]

Steam link?

I totally forgot I have one... It also supports 4k at 60fps over LAN. Just ordered a CAT5 cable and will give it a shot over the weekend.

 

[agnes]

Steam link is limited to 1080p

Nvidia shield is a nice upgrade if you want 4k

https://store.steampowered.com/app/353380/Steam_Link/

You can tune streaming resolution and bitrate for the best experience on your setup with Advanced Settings. Over a 5 GHz network, our target is a resolution of 1080p at 60 frames per second, with good quality for most scenes. If you have a powerful gaming rig, a wired network, and a capable client device, it's possible to stream 4K at 60 FPS.

I used Steam Link from my PC to the app on an Nvidia Shield Pro over powerline adaptors. Didn't work very well and I gave up eventually.

It was telling me I was getting 130Mbps over the connection with a low ping but everything was choppy and framerates were inconsistent.

Someone else recommended Parsec but I've not tried it. Ended up getting GeForce Now in the end which has turned out better than I expected.

Edit: I still need to try setting it up as a Gamestream connection in the Nvidia games app. Might work better than Steam Link.

I looked into Nvidia Shield, it looked to be focused on streaming games online? Similar to that google thingy?

 

[agnes]

Nvidia Shield TV Pro being delivered today, will have it connected via LAN going through my switch. Excited to see if it's any good! I read I need to do some trickery to use my Xbox One controller with rumble, else it doesn't output rumble which is weird

 

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Yeah it is, better performance, and also supports HDR, which the Steam Link app unfortunately doesn't

Unfortunately that requires an Nvidia GPU



Nice!

Not sure about the Xbox controller, but I had no issues setting up my PS3 & PS5 controllers with it

After reading up, the only issue is it doesn't support rumble. So I'll have to setup something called VirtualHere. Basically a virtual USB hub, apparently it also improves controller latency and supports rumble. Still waiting on delivery, supposed to be here before 2100

 

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Welp, after spending several hours on what can only be described as a homebrew Pi running android with a decent chip... It's going back to the shop. Beyond buggy, not once was I able to play a game, myriad of issues.

I'm sure with a simple setup this could work, but it just felt like a very cheap device when it comes to software and caused several headaches with not a second in game. I'm just gonna use my 9900k, Z390 and 32GB ram and build a small gaming PC in the living room when I upgrade to Alderlake. At least I'll enjoy setting that up lol. Utter waste of 200 EUR.

 

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the sheild you talking about?

i got 5 one in each room and they are legendary in hardware & software?

Aye, spent 5 hours trying to get it to work. Utter nightmare.

 

[agnes]

so the shield is 3 buttons to get working, or do you mean just game stream?


like i say i got 5 sheild one in each room for great 4K hdr & multitasking on netflix/disney etc

Just gamstream, could not get it working at all. It could be something to do with my PC, or the networking in the house. Who knows, I'm just not gonna waste time on it and build a dedicated PC when I upgrade my main PC.