Steam in-home streaming released. (You can play any game on super low end PCs.)

[Topweasel]

I finally got around to testing this. I tested it on HP Chromebook 14 running Elementary OS using Crouton. All I can say is wow. This is a game changer. Performance was little laggy since I'm running wireless on both the gaming PC and the Chromebook but I see the huge potential. Having all the Windows games available under Linux is pretty sweet. Now I'm tempted to try this on Asus Chromebox connected to wired gigabit ethernet. I might buy another Asus Chromebox to test on since I don't want to mess with my current dual boot ChromeOS/OpenELEC Chromebox in the living room.

$179 Chromebox which can run ChromeOS, Linux, XBMC for media, and Steam streaming PC games to your TV? This is the future.

But...but...But your locking out two pieces of hardware when you game, how could this be useful at all?

Really though that's a fantastic option. Tell us how it goes if you get the Chromebox, if it goes really well I might have to pick one up. I have a Llano box I was thinking of putting into the living room. But it's a bit noisy, I would want to replace the HDD with a very small SSD, and a bit overkill for a streamer. $200 for a dedicated streamer would be perfect (actually SteamOS running on a $100 ARM FireTV like box would be the best) .

 

[TerryMathews]

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/246888230388336240

Thought I'd update this thread, latest beta uses the on-card hardware that Nvidia uses for Shield streaming. Should bring quality up and CPU utilization down.

 

[xantub]

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/246888230388336240

Thought I'd update this thread, latest beta uses the on-card hardware that Nvidia uses for Shield streaming. Should bring quality up and CPU utilization down.

needs GeForce 650+ cards and using their beta drivers, so I think I'll wait (specially since I only have a GTX280 ^_^)

 

[Aikouka]

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/246888230388336240

Thought I'd update this thread, latest beta uses the on-card hardware that Nvidia uses for Shield streaming. Should bring quality up and CPU utilization down.

Hm.. I think I may wait for it to go on the release channel. It can get a bit grating to have to update your Steam client constantly -- especially when you have to keep it up to date on every machine! 😛 Although, that is nice to see since I have NVIDIA hardware, but doesn't it also use QuickSync? I also enabled that, which I use for encoding and other things.

 

[ViRGE]

Hm.. I think I may wait for it to go on the release channel. It can get a bit grating to have to update your Steam client constantly -- especially when you have to keep it up to date on every machine! 😛 Although, that is nice to see since I have NVIDIA hardware, but doesn't it also use QuickSync? I also enabled that, which I use for encoding and other things.

Yes, it uses QuickSync if you have it. Though I'm curious whether they still use QuickSync if you have both NV and Intel hardware. One would think that it would stick to NVENC in that case (so that you aren't passing frames off-GPU).