@alexw00d said:
@mijati said:
@crithon said:
so it's basically streaming from one machine to another? Any way you can set it to tablets? Or a web browser? How's the input lag?
I imagine any tablet that runs Windows would work but as there's no Steam client for Android and iOS wouldn't be able to use those right now. But you can stream from Windows -> Linux which is fantastic. Seems to be minimal input latency but still need to check with a controller.
I got into the beta but i'v not been able to check, does the controller have to be plugged into the thing receiving the stream? Or can it be plugged into the streaming machine. Mostly cause I don't know if Ubuntu will support my PS3 controller.
I believe it can be plugged into either but it's designed to be plugged into the receiving PC. Although the way it works is that the game is running on the main PC so I see no reason as to why you couldn't connect your PS3 controller to the streaming PC.
I've tested some more. I used F1 2013 to test for any performance issues and there didn't appear to be any, other than the usual slow down when I decided that I needed to crash into everyone at the first corner of Monaco! But other than that the game was fine and had no issues with it.
To test controller latency I tried playing Spelunky and honestly I could not tell any difference at all. Felt just as responsive as when I play on my PC.
Some cool things to note: You can remotely download games. So if you decide you want to play a game you don't have installed you can remotely tell it to download to your main PC and it'll do so. I could then launch and play the game without needing to ever touch the original computer. Which is pretty damn awesome.
Unfortunately, due to the way it's setup you cannot be using the main computer while streaming to another one. This is due to the fact that as I said the game runs on the main PC so unfortunately this won't enable someone to be playing Steam from your PC while you're browsing the web or whatever. (Although maybe if you had a game that allows input while being in a background window it might work? but I doubt it).
Overall I'm very impressed. Going to be spending the afternoon lying in bed and playing a bunch of games. This in turn should eventually lead to me actually playing some of my 700+ steam games as when I'm sitting at my PC I always want to do something else rather than play games but in my bedroom on my TV in there is another story!
I'd love to test a steam controller with this thing and see how it works for mouse based games. I have a wireless mouse + keyboard for my laptop but they're terrible for gaming on as I only picked them up just to make it so I could browse the internet and navigate stuff while in bed! Might have to pick myself up a decent set of wireless keyboard and mouse if I continue to use this.
If there's anything anyone wants me to test then let me know and I'll see what I can do. I have a whole bunch of games so if you want me to test something specific to a game I probably have it :P.
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