I just got a Shield Portable as a gift, and I've gotta say, I'm pretty impressed.
It runs emulators quite well (as expected), so no worry there.
It comes with a few free games to stream via Nvidia Grid, which works surprisingly well despite me being across the country. All decent games too, although I really wonder how many servers they actually have set up. It'd be pretty funny if they just have 1 server per game. They're using the Grid K1, which apparently runs 4 low end Kepler GPUs, 192 cores each, 4GB of ram per card, passively cooled.
I was also able to get streaming going with Splashtop, which I found worked nearly flawlessly on the Shield, but was a stuttery mess on my Nexus 5. I figured I had to make sure that the Shield could actually stream better than my phone and it did. The Splashtop app was a bit of the pain to use though, it's just a normal remote desktop app, and it apparently does not do full screen games so you need to adjust the games to a window prior to using it, then launch them using a normal Windows desktop. It does support streaming an Xbox 360 control interface though, which worked perfectly.
Now, the reason I was using the Splashtop in the first place is because I only had Radeon cards in my PCs! I was impressed enough with how well the streaming worked, that I decided to get a Geforce GTX 750TI to throw in my HTPC (replacing an almost brand new R7 260X
) Also sadly, my laptop has a Geforce GT 750TI, which apparently isn't supported for streaming because it's not a GTX. Optimus also seems to cause issues with laptop streaming, so it won't even work via hacked methods.
The Nvidia gamestreaming works fantastic over my Wifi network. Quality is a little lower than splashtop I think (nvidia's hardware encoding quality is apparently not great), but it works flawlessly, as if the games were running natively on the shield. It's pretty comfortable to use too.
I haven't been able to get Internet streaming working yet. It's able to connect after forwarding ports, but it appears my cell phone tether isn't fast enough. I'll have to try it again once I'm on wifi elsewhere.
Gaming and emulators also work really well on the Shield, even though there's not many games available. Outputting to a TV at 1080p looks pretty great for The Walking Dead Android game, as well as for Sonic.
It runs emulators quite well (as expected), so no worry there.
It comes with a few free games to stream via Nvidia Grid, which works surprisingly well despite me being across the country. All decent games too, although I really wonder how many servers they actually have set up. It'd be pretty funny if they just have 1 server per game. They're using the Grid K1, which apparently runs 4 low end Kepler GPUs, 192 cores each, 4GB of ram per card, passively cooled.
I was also able to get streaming going with Splashtop, which I found worked nearly flawlessly on the Shield, but was a stuttery mess on my Nexus 5. I figured I had to make sure that the Shield could actually stream better than my phone and it did. The Splashtop app was a bit of the pain to use though, it's just a normal remote desktop app, and it apparently does not do full screen games so you need to adjust the games to a window prior to using it, then launch them using a normal Windows desktop. It does support streaming an Xbox 360 control interface though, which worked perfectly.
Now, the reason I was using the Splashtop in the first place is because I only had Radeon cards in my PCs! I was impressed enough with how well the streaming worked, that I decided to get a Geforce GTX 750TI to throw in my HTPC (replacing an almost brand new R7 260X
) Also sadly, my laptop has a Geforce GT 750TI, which apparently isn't supported for streaming because it's not a GTX. Optimus also seems to cause issues with laptop streaming, so it won't even work via hacked methods.The Nvidia gamestreaming works fantastic over my Wifi network. Quality is a little lower than splashtop I think (nvidia's hardware encoding quality is apparently not great), but it works flawlessly, as if the games were running natively on the shield. It's pretty comfortable to use too.
I haven't been able to get Internet streaming working yet. It's able to connect after forwarding ports, but it appears my cell phone tether isn't fast enough. I'll have to try it again once I'm on wifi elsewhere.
Gaming and emulators also work really well on the Shield, even though there's not many games available. Outputting to a TV at 1080p looks pretty great for The Walking Dead Android game, as well as for Sonic.
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