whilst at dads, use pc at mums to play game and dispaly it to me

unwashed potato! · 8 Dec 2007 at 01:09

bascaiilly i have my main pc at my mums which plays all my games and such which is great, but when i go to dads on weekends i got to use this crappy old pc which can't do anything now except net emails. dad will soon upgrade but still the pc won't be enough to play the latest games like crysis.

so was thinking after using logmein, that maybe there is a way i could use the pc at my mums to load the game, do all the hard stuff, and then just send the image to the pc i'm on atm. Logmein did this but as it wasn't a continous live feed it wasn't very good and far too much studdering.

so is this possible?

Burnsy2023 · 8 Dec 2007 at 01:26

Mammalian said:
so is this possible?

No, not with current bandwidth limitations.

Burnsy

Sinque · 8 Dec 2007 at 14:02

Only game you could play with that would be a browser game like Travian

eXor · 8 Dec 2007 at 19:23

Mammalian said:
bascaiilly i have my main pc at my mums which plays all my games and such which is great, but when i go to dads on weekends i got to use this crappy old pc which can't do anything now except net emails. dad will soon upgrade but still the pc won't be enough to play the latest games like crysis.

so was thinking after using logmein, that maybe there is a way i could use the pc at my mums to load the game, do all the hard stuff, and then just send the image to the pc i'm on atm. Logmein did this but as it wasn't a continous live feed it wasn't very good and far too much studdering.

so is this possible?

Too bandwidth sensitive to work well. Transporting your tower / keyboard / mouse is not an option?

If the PC is yours, you could always sell it and get a powerful laptop. Smaller everything, but beggars can't be choosers.

modo77 · 8 Dec 2007 at 19:25

You can play football manager via logmein. Passed many hours in work

Energize · 8 Dec 2007 at 21:05

Latency is too high even if you compress the video output.

unwashed potato! · 9 Dec 2007 at 00:27

ok thanks guys. shame as would be sweet being able to play oblivion here at my dads house.

yeah transporting it is an option but not always as i go from work to dads usually so can't take it with me.

bit off topic but played my first lan game with the brother today and it was brilliant. we played star wars clone campaigns and it was so much fun helping each other but being able to do what we wanted, where as normal 2 play games just one screen and can only go one place etc.

JoyPadJedi · 9 Dec 2007 at 10:27

Video game thin client? LOL that would be awesome, but as said we don't have the bandwidth yet. One day though.

macca672 · 9 Dec 2007 at 10:47

modo77 said:
You can play football manager via logmein. Passed many hours in work

oooh now that sounds like a plan

pendulum666 · 9 Dec 2007 at 10:54

Whats this logmein thing then sounds good?

macca672 · 9 Dec 2007 at 11:17

pendulum666 said:
Whats this logmein thing then sounds good?

easy to set up and use remote desktop access

www.logmein.com

bledd · 9 Dec 2007 at 11:28

is remote desktop + hamachi a better desktop experience than logmein?

-anyone tested both?

-neither will do for fast paced games, as said above

londonbairn · 9 Dec 2007 at 11:44

RDP is perfect for me, used it over GPRS/3G and it is fine.