Nice!
Too bad i still have an old CRT TV on the livingroom, or i would start saving some $$ to build a small AMD APU based SteamBox/XBMCBox...
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don't understand this. maybe because i'm a person who has only PC and considers other shit useless? what's the gain from this update for everyone else?
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you can play PC games in another room without having to lug tons of equipment around
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... Wow, you're not very sharp, are you?
In-home streaming means you can stream a game from your gaming rig - which is actually running the game - to another device in your house, that only has to be beefy enough in terms of performance to be able to handle incoming video data, and transmit your input over a network. This means you only need 1 gaming rig, and can keep it in one place, while you can - for example - sit on your couch and use your nice big flat screen TV to play a high-performance game, or on any other device, anywhere else.
I'll probably never use it, but I can see the value and importance of this in the gaming market.
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Smart TVs, with USB ports, or DisplayPort ports.
EDIT - With the right version of HDMI, you can also carry ethernet signals over the cable. Forgot about that.
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eeeeehm. so i can play battlefield 4 on a shitty pc with 256 ram? lol
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That's what the description by Steam is implying. You need enough RAM to let Steam and the streaming processes work, also you need a good network connection in you LAN of course, cables that is. :D Everything else is processed in your gaming PC.
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The receiving pc has to be not too shitty as well, I tried the beta streaming cs:go from a powerful notebook to my pentium 4 with 2,5 gb of ram and a radeon 9600, extreme lag :p
(yeah I know, the pc is 12 years old and sucks, but it's just to point out that your other pc can't be a toaster :D)
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a full hd video stream is not that simple to do well, for instance wifi could do the job or not. so if this is meant to avoid fiddling with wires, well ahem...
and of course the pc connected to the tv must still be able to playback a full hd video.
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There are so many factors at play here. 1 - your network might have been shitty, or had issues (potential issues that would take up this whole page to enumerate). 2 - when you tried it, the thing was still very early in development, and perhaps they were tweaking and testing specific values to try things out.
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I think like the others indirectly mentioned, it is mostly for families now that you can use Steam on different computers logged in as the same user. With the family library you can choose games for your kids and let them play stuff on their computer streaming from yours while you work on other things on your computer. Steam wants to be something for everybody so it seems. I don't really know why and if that's really going to be something good but let's wait while Steam puts more and more functions to it. Gabe never fails!
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It's not meant to be for just one person, that's what I think. Maybe it's useless for you but maybe there are people that needed just that. Maybe you have a high-end computer and your friend has only a shitty PC with no special hardware. He/She wants to play the same games as you do but has no access to your PC. You gave her/him access to your Steam account and let the magic begin.
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Of course, this all has to happen in a LAN but there won't be "mucho lago" when you're connected through cables. Even through air the speed of your connection is high enough for something like that to stream because the distance from PC to switch/router back to another PC is relatively small. And nowadays distance is all that really matters mostly.
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"..nowadays distance is all that really matters mostly."
Hah, no.
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Umm, I don't think you understand how Hamachi works, or why using it could still produce lag in multiple forms, as you're still only simulating a LAN over WAN.
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I also own a pair of legs and don't see much point in using this "Feature"
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This is exactly what I was thinking about. My little brother is getting a shiny new laptop for his birthday/graduation, so his old crappy one may work perfectly for this. Certainly worth a shot. It'll be interesting to see how well this works for people. I have my PC hooked up to my TV in my living room, since I live alone, but I could definitely see how this would work awesomely for a lot of situations.
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Imagine if/when they release DoA: Extreme Beach Volleyball for PC / Steam! Oh, the joy of laptops in toilets, then.
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One of the best feature I've seen so far. One would have to be very dumb not to see the potential of this. Now you can make yourself a HTPC WITHOUT an expensive videocard and a hungry PSU and start enjoying your Steam library while your real rig is running elsewhere in the house. Very useful for those who have a PC outside of the living room and want to enjoy playing games in the living room as well. Just played Assetto Corsa, Portal 2 and Sonic Transformed on an old crappy walmart PC and it does work indeed. Although the refresh rate is not perfect for quick action games, it is still very playable even if your laptop/htpc is running on wireless N. For best results though, use cables all the way to get faster streaming.
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Good to see someone tried it and knows the results. Good to know that it works. I might try it too this weekend just to experience it. I don't really need it since I'm basically living (eat, sleep, play games... that's living, right?) in the living room (aaahhh that's why it's called like that! :D) but I wanna make sure of this new feature to work right.
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Console exclusives and shitty PC ports, just like always really.
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its def the my favorite feature steam has introduced. i played around with it when it was in beta and played some high demand games through my gaming pc on my crappy aspire one netbook flawlessly. the resolution is garbage on the netbook but it takes it from the PC so it was great... best feature, thanks steam!
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Really interesting imo. I have 2 devices I game with: a powerful gaming desktop and a 3 months old laptop for games with low/medium requirements.
If this works well I dont have to install any games on my laptop (if they are installed on my main computer that is). One question comes to mind though. I'm playing wireless on my laptop on the same network. Did anyone test it using a wireless device? Any hiccups or lag? Is it even doable?
I wont be playing MP games. Just some adventure and indie titles probably. But is says "System requirements dictate the rig you’ll need to run your game, but with In-Home Streaming they won’t limit where you can play." Does that mean I would be able to play Assassins Creed IV on my laptop? Now that would be sweet!
I would like to know your experiences, whatever your setup. Is it as good as it seems to be?
My gaming rig is at the attic, while I can take my laptop anywhere I want, even into the garden. I can crank up the volume without waking the kids or wife late in the evening or at night (and I dont need to use a headset which means I cant hear the kids in case they need attention). I see a lot of potential and will check it out this evening.
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No, COH will use your ancient pc's power.
It will run the same on your Mac as it runs on your pc, slightly worse probably because of latency.
But yes, you can play the games installed on your pc on your Mac. It doesnt work the other way around yet though
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You don't stream anything but video data to and input from the crappy PC. The machine that has the game installed still runs it..
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I read a lot about it on the Steam forums.
There are people who have no visible lag at all and those we say its unplayable. Just depends on your situation I guess. I'm gonna testdrive it later today.
I'm sure playing MP games like COD or CSGO isnt wat it was meant for.
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Since they show a single player game on the main page I'd say you're right.
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So you're saying that you can accurately gauge time up to a millisecond? I don't think so.
"How did you attain those numbers" might be a better question.
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I can see this being a better service than Onlive, but at the same time if you have a gaming PC you don't really need/have a crappy computer and there would be no real reason to be using this. Well I guess it's a neat feature and there's no harm in having it around.
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only when he's at home -- you need to me on the same lan
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So can I plug my piece of junk Netbook into my 1080p television and stream Assassin's Creed III from my gaming rig upstairs?
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Assassins Creed IV on a wireless laptop wasnt a success. Game runs choppy. I'll try again wired later today, to confirm its because I'm trying to stream it wireless. The intro movies ran smooth though.
Bound By Flame, Transistor and Brothers a Tale of Two Sons ran great while streaming on a wireless laptop.
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Will it work on a Raspberry pi? MMmmmmMMMmmm Pie...
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